Neil Bailey

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Personal information
Neil Bailey
Date of birth	September 26, 1958 (1958-09-26) (age 49)
Place of birth	Wigan, England
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club	Sunderland (Reserve Team coach)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
-1983 1983-1986 1986-1988 1986-1987 1992-1994	Newport County Wigan Athletic Stockport County → Newport County (loan) Blackpool Career	00? (?) 041 (2) 051 (0) 009 (1) 009 (0) 110 (3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Neil Bailey (born September 26, 1958 in Wigan, Lancashire) is an English former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder.

He began his career at Newport County in the early 1980s before signing professional forms with his hometown club Wigan Athletic in 1983. He spent three years at Springfield Park, making 41 league appearances and scoring two goals.

In 1986 Bailey joined Stockport County and went on to make a half-century of appearances for the Greater Manchester club. During his time at Edgeley Park he was loaned out to his first club, Newport County.

Bailey retired from playing in 1988 but stayed on at Stockport County as a coach.

In 1992, Bailey joined Billy Ayre's Blackpool, also as a coach, but occasionally took to the field as an emergency fill-in when injuries dictated.

Bailey was later a youth team coach at Manchester United and then a coach for the Professional Footballers' Association between 2002 and 2007. In January 2007, Bailey became First Team Coach at Sunderland, where he is now Reserve Team Coach.