Darren Edmondson

Darren Edmondson

Personal information
Full name	Darren Stephen Edmondson
Date of birth	(1971-11-04) 4 November 1971
Place of birth	Coniston, England
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	None
Youth career
000?–1990	Carlisle United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1997	Carlisle United	214	(8)
1997–2000	Huddersfield Town	37	(0)
1998	→ Plymouth Argyle (loan)	4	(0)
2000–2004	York City	131	(6)
2004–2005	Chester City	27	(0)
2005	Barrow
2006–2013	Workington
Managerial career
2005	Barrow (caretaker)
2007–2013	Workington
2013–2015	Barrow
2016 -	Bradford Park Avenue (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Darren Stephen Edmondson (born 4 November 1971) is an English former professional footballer who is currently caretaker manager of National League North side Bradford Park Avenue.

Career

Born in Coniston, Lancashire, Edmondson started as a trainee at Carlisle United, where he stayed for seven years before being transferred to Huddersfield Town for £225,500. He had a difficult time there however, he even scored a bizarre own goal against Ipswich Town, in which he was passing the ball back to Town's keeper Steve Francis and it somehow went through his legs and into the goal.

He went to York City in 2000, before leaving to Chester City after York's relegation to the Football Conference. He spent just one year at Chester and joined non-League side Barrow under Lee Turnbull. After Turnbull was sacked Edmondson had a brief spell as caretaker manager before the appointment of Phil Wilson. Wilson set about bringing in his own players and Edmondson left Barrow and signed for Workington. He made his debut for Workington on 7 January 2006 at Worksop Town. He scored his first goal for the club at Alfreton Town on 14 March.

On 5 November Workington manager Tommy Cassidy resigned to take over at Newcastle Blue Star, taking with him his number two Tony Elliott. The Workington board acted quickly and appointed Edmondson as caretaker manager on the very same day. He was later given the job on a full-time basis and was officially announced as manager at the home tie against Redditch United on 6 October 2007.

On 10 December 2013, Edmondson resigned from his post as Workington manager, following a day of change at Workington with the chairman resigning. Within hours of the resignation he was appointed Barrow manager.

When Darren joined Barrow, they sat in the relegation zone in the Conference North. A run of good form saw Barrow rise up the table, to the fringes of the playoffs, with wins against promotion hopefuls AFC Telford United and North Ferriby United. Eventually leading the club to a mid table finish. Darren then led Barrow to the Conference North title the following season, with a final day 3-2 victory at Lowestoft Town, bringing Conference football back to Holker Street. Barrow then started the newly named ‘National League’ season with a 2-1 victory over Dover Athletic, but with recent results not going in Barrow’s favour, both parties agreed that parting company would be in their best interests on 22 November 2015.

On 22 March 2016, he was appointed caretaker manager of Bradford Park Avenue, replacing Martin Drury, until the end of the season.

External links

• Darren Edmondson career statistics at Soccerbase