Ryan Williams (footballer, born 1978)

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Ryan Williams
Personal information
Full name Ryan Neil Williams[1]
Date of birth (1978-08-31) 31 August 1978 (age 45)[1]
Place of birth Sutton-in-Ashfield, England
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
AFC Mansfield
Youth career
Mansfield Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Mansfield Town 26 (3)
1997–1999 Tranmere Rovers 5 (0)
1999–2001 Chesterfield 74 (13)
2001–2003 Hull City 52 (2)
2003–2006 Bristol Rovers 43 (4)
2004–2005 Forest Green Rovers (loan) 6 (1)
2005–2006 Aldershot Town (loan) 25 (7)
2006–2008 Aldershot Town 47 (9)
2008–2009 Weymouth 31 (2)
2009–2011 Mansfield Town 41 (3)
2010 Gainsborough Trinity (loan) 6 (0)
2011–2012 Gainsborough Trinity 68 (9)
2012–2013 North Ferriby United1 33 (8)
2013– Gainsborough Trinity 0 (0)
International career
1996 England U18 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Ryan Neil Williams (born 31 August 1978 in Sutton-in-Ashfield) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Northern Counties East Football League Division One side AFC Mansfield.

Career

Williams started his career with a local club, Mansfield Town before moving to Tranmere Rovers, Chesterfield, Hull City and then onto Bristol Rovers.

After playing for three seasons in League Two, he joined Aldershot Town on a month's loan in September 2005 when Ian Atkins was manager at Bristol Rovers. After Atkins departed the club, Williams briefly returned to Rovers before leaving the club in December 2005 and joining the Shots on a contract that ran until the end of the 2007–08 season. In a pre-season friendly against Crystal Palace in July 2007, Williams tore his anterior cruciate ligament. He was only able to play one game in the 2007–08 season, as Aldershot won the Conference with a record points total. Following their promotion, Williams left by mutual agreement.[2]

On 6 May 2008, Williams joined another Conference club, Weymouth, signing a one-year contract. In 2009 he joined Mansfield Town.[3]

Following a loan spell with Conference North side Gainsborough Trinity in December 2010, he joined the club on a permanent basis in January 2011. In September 2012 he joined North Ferriby United.[4] Williams and Ferriby secured promotion to the Conference North at the end of the 2012–13 season, and on 26 May 2013 he announced he had re-signed for Trinity.

After starting several games and assisting on the coaching staff, Williams moved to Scarborough Athletic in September 2013 after work commitments meant he couldn't continue playing at Conference North level [5]

Williams stayed with the Seadogs until December 2014, when he completed a move to AFC Mansfield, joining former boss Rudy Funk and returning to the town where he began his career.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Soccerbase incorrectly credits Williams with the stats of Morecambe player Ryan Williams. Therefore, until and unless the correct it, editors should ignore the Morecambe appearances and goals added to this players Soccerbase page.

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