Justin Walker (footballer)

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Personal information
Justin Walker
Full name	Justin Matthew Walker
Date of birth	September 6, 1975 (1975-09-06) (age 32)
Place of birth	Nottingham, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Ilkeston Town
Youth clubs
1991-1992	Nottingham Forest
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1997 1997-2000 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2004 2005-2006 2006-	Nottingham Forest Scunthorpe United Lincoln City Exeter City Cambridge United → York City (loan) Chester City Ilkeston Town	000 (0) 132 (2) 076 (4) 039 (5) 059 (2) 009 (0) 021 (0) 034 (1)
National team
	England Youth England Schoolboys
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Justin Walker (born September 6, 1975, Nottingham) was a professional footballer who made more than 300 Football League appearances for six different clubs from 1997 to 2006 as a midfielder. He is now playing non-league football for Ilkeston Town.

As a youngster, Walker represented England at youth and schoolboy level and signed professional forms with Nottingham Forest in September 1992. But he failed to break into the first-team with Forest and joined Scunthorpe United in March 1997. Walker was a regular with United until he moved to Lincoln City in July 2000, playing in the 1998–99 Football League Division Three play-off final win at Wembley Stadium against Leyton Orient.

After two years with Lincoln, Walker joined Exeter City in August 2002, but his solitary season with the Grecians ended in relegation from the Football League. The same fate would befall his next club, Cambridge United in 2004–05. Walker achieved a possibly unique hat-trick of successive relegations out of the league by playing for York City on loan for two months in 2003–04 season.

Walker joined Chester City ahead of the 2005–06 campaign, where he was to manage just 13 league starts. With six weeks of the season remaining Chester lay bottom of the League Two table and Walker seemed set for yet another relegation experience, but a late run of wins saved City from the drop. However, Walker was released in the summer of 2006 and joined Ilkeston Town ^[1], where he is still playing today.