Jason Matthews (footballer)

Jason Matthews

200px Matthews playing for Weymouth in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Jason Lee Matthews
Date of birth	(1975-03-13) 13 March 1975
Place of birth	Paulton, England
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Weymouth (Player-Manager)
Youth career
	Bristol Rovers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–1999	Nuneaton Borough
1999–2000	Exeter City	12	(0)
2000–2001	Aberystwyth Town	31	(0)
2001–2002	Clevedon Town
2002–2008	Weymouth		(1)
2008–2011	Eastleigh
2011–2012	Bath City	10	(0)
2012–2013	Dorchester Town
2013-	Weymouth
Managerial career
2014-	Weymouth
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jason Lee Matthews (born 13 March 1975) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for Weymouth as a goalkeeper.

Career

Born in Paulton, Somerset, Matthews started playing in goal at an early age and soon won a place at Millfield's Centre of Excellence.

Bristol Rovers signed him up on schoolboy terms but he was released just before he left school. Matthews then spent six years playing for a number of clubs in the Screwfix League including Welton Rovers, Paulton and Mangotsfield, before signing for Geoff Butler's Salisbury City.

The following season Matthews signed for Nuneaton Borough, though it was only a couple of months before he was invited to join Exeter City, where he spent the 1999–2000 season, giving him his only taste of Football League action.

He followed this by moving over the Welsh border to Aberystwyth Town for a year before joining Clevedon Town. It was from Clevedon that Geoff Butler signed him for Weymouth in 2002, where he has stayed (and stayed almost unrivalled #1 keeper) for nearly five whole seasons.

On 17 March 2007, he scored his first ever career goal for Weymouth in a Conference National match against Southport. It was all the more remarkable as it was from his own penalty area, in the last minutes of the game, and was the winning goal. It was the first ever goal a Weymouth goalkeeper has scored from open play in the entire history of the club.

Matthews made his Eastleigh debut in the 5-0 away win over Maidenhead United on 8 March 2008 before making his home debut a week later in the 4–1 home defeat at the hands of Hayes & Yeading United a week later.

Adie Britton brought Matthews to Bath City on 22 June 2011. It has been stated that Matthews will start off as second choice keeper but both player and manager are hoping he puts pressure on current first team keeper Glyn Garner.

Matthews signed a one-year contract at Dorchester Town in May 2012. In June 2013 Matthews returned to Weymouth on non contract terms for the 2013-14 season. When Brendon King was sacked he was made temporary Player/Manager at Weymouth. On 12 January 2014, Matthews was appointed player/manager on a full-time basis, after winning four of his seven games.

External links

• Jason Matthews career statistics at Soccerbase
• Jason Matthews profile at Welsh Premier Football
• Jason Matthews at Soccerway