| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew William Mulliner | ||
| Date of birth | 3 January 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Shrewsbury, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Port Vale | ||
| 1989–1990 | Telford United | ||
| 1990–1991 | Accrington Stanley | ||
| 1991–1992 | Curzon Ashton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1992–1999 | Llansantffraid | 213 | (0) |
| 1994 | → Aberystwyth Town (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 1999 | Rhyl | 2 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Bangor City | 27 | (0) |
| 2000 | Connah's Quay Nomads | 3 | (0) |
| 2000 | Bangor City | 1 | (0) |
| 2001 | Aberystwyth Town | 1 | (0) |
| 2001 | Newtown | 4 | (0) |
| 2001 | Connah's Quay Nomads | 22 | (0) |
| 2001–2008 | Caersws | 190 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Welshpool Town | 7 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Ellesmere Rangers | 42 | (0) |
| 2010 | Bangor City | 0 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Ellesmere Rangers | 23 | (0) |
| Total | 536 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988 | Wales U18 | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Andrew (Andy) Mulliner (born 3 January 1971) is an English-born Welsh former football goalkeeper, who has previously works as a goalkeeping coach for Shrewsbury Town, Port Vale FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy and Bury. He spent most of his career in Welsh football, where his 471 game tally in the Welsh Football League is a record for a goalkeeper. He also held the record of the most appearances for TNS, with 266 competitive appearances between 1993 and 1999.
He has completed his UEFA A Licence outfield and his FA A Licence Goalkeeping coaching qualifications, having previously completed his 'B' licence both outfield and Goalkeeping.
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Mulliner started his career as a reserve player at Port Vale, though he never made a first team appearance for the club or indeed in the Football League. Despite this, in 1988 he won a cap for the Wales under-18 side in a match against Northern Ireland.
After leaving Port Vale, he joined Telford United, appearing once on Boxing Day 1989 in a 3-1 victory at Aggborough. At the start of the 1990–91 season he joined Bangor City playing in the Northern Premier League before dropping down a division to Accrington Stanley, who he helped to achieve promotion to the Premier Division. The following season he joined Curzon Ashton, before joining Llansantffraid in January 1992, who were playing in the Cymru Alliance.
He first appeared in the Welsh Premier League with Llansantffraid in the 1993–94 season - the second season of the league's establishment. He played 31 league games for the club that season, as well as one on loan at Aberystwyth Town.[1] Staying with Llansantffraid for the following five seasons, he played a further 182 league games for the club and was present when they changed their name to Total Network Solutions.
Between 8 August 1995 and 18 October 1997, Mulliner played 117 consecutive competitive matches for the club, including the 1996 Welsh Cup final, which was the last competitive game to be played at the Cardiff Arms Park. In that final he was blamed for two of Barry Town's three goals, but became the hero by saving two of Town's penalties in the shootout.[1] During his time the club were solid mid-table performers. He was not there for their league winning season of 1999–2000, having moved on to Rhyl. He also represented the League of Wales in a game against the League of Ireland, and was also capped at semi-professional level in a game against England in 1996.
He spent the 2000–01 season with Bangor City, making 27 league appearances. He then had brief spells with Connah's Quay Nomads, Bangor City (again), Aberystwyth Town and Newtown before playing 22 games of Connah's Quay 2001–02 season.
In 2002 he settled with Caersws and spent the next seven seasons at the Recreation Ground, making close to 200 league appearances.[1] During the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons his team reached fifth place, a personal best for Mulliner.
He joined Welshpool Town in August 2008 and made seven league and four cup appearances in the 2008–09 season.
He moved on to Ellesmere Rangers in July 2009,[2] ending a run of sixteen years of playing in the Welsh league.[3] This ended his 471 game tally in the Welsh Football League, a record for a goalkeeper.[4]
He achieved promotion with Ellesmere Rangers out of the West Midlands (Regional) League, and also helped them to victory in the Shropshire Challenge Cup, with a 3-1 win over Market Drayton at the [Greenhouse Meaddow]] in Shrewsbury.
In July 2010, Mulliner re-signed for former club Bangor City [5][6] for a short while for their run in the UEFA Europa League, playing in Finland and Portugal. He then returned to Ellesmere Rangers for the start of the league season. He signed for Welsh Premier League side Airbus UK on August transfer deadline day for the 2011/12 season.
Mulliner served as goalkeeping coach at Ellesmere Rangers (also serving as assistant manager and regular player),and currently works at the Wolverhampton Wanderers academy,[7] Kidderminster Harriers, Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College and The New Saints. He previously worked as first team Goalkeeper Coach at Shrewsbury Town.[8] In January 2011, Jim Gannon appointed him as first team goalkeeping coach at Port Vale.[9] "Andy's a good appointment because we have two or three very good keepers who need to develop and improve" until later on in march of that year.
He was appointed at Bury as Goalkeeping coach when Alan Knill and his staff left to take over a struggling Scunthorpe United for the rest of the 2010/2011 season.