Jason Matthews (footballer)

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Jason Matthews

Full name	Jason Matthews
Date of birth	March 13, 1975 (1975-03-13) (age 33)
Place of birth	Paulton, England
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Eastleigh
Number	n/a
Youth clubs
	Bristol Rovers
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2008 2008-	Nuneaton Borough Exeter City Aberystwyth Town Clevedon Town Weymouth Eastleigh	0? (0) 12 (0) 0? (0) 0? (0) 0207 (1) 01 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 January 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Jason Matthews was born in Paulton on March 13, 1975. He 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.

Jason 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 he signed for Nuneaton Borough but it was only a couple of months before he was invited to join Exeter City, where he spent the 1999-2000 season.

Next it was over the border to Aberystwyth Town for a year before joining Clevedon Town.

And 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 5 whole seasons.

On 17 March 2007, he scored his first ever career goal for Weymouth in a Conference National match against Southport; 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 also the first ever goal a Weymouth goalkeeper has scored from open play in the entire history of the club.

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Jason Matthews career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Weymouth F.C. – current squad

2 Critchell • 4 Browning • 6 Coutts • 10 Beavon • 11 Robinson • 12 Doe • 15 Ironside • 22 Vernazza • 30 Malcolm • –– Crawley • –– Joseph-Dubious • –– Santos Gaia • Manager: Hollins