Bradley Wood

This article is about the professional footballer. For other uses, see Bradley Wood (disambiguation).
Bradley Wood
Personal information
Full nameBradley Alan Wood
Date of birth2 September 1991
Place of birthLeicester, England
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionRight-back
Club information
Current team
Alfreton Town
Number2
Youth career
2007–2009Grimsby Town
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2009–2013Grimsby Town113(1)
2013–Alfreton Town75(7)
National team‡
2013–England C1(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:51, 8 February 2015 (UTC).

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:25, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Bradley Alan Wood (born 2 September 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a right back for Conference Premier side Alfreton Town. He began his career at Grimsby Town where he was also used as a left back and winger. At international level he has represented England C.

Club career

Grimsby Town

Bradley Wood is a combative player who was promoted to the club's first team squad midway through the 2008–09 season as a makeshift defender from the youth team. He was named as a substitute once for The Mariners. In the 2009–10 season, Wood did not receive a squad number until his club fell victim to an injury crisis which saw him named as a substitute in the away defeat against Port Vale. On 26 September Wood made his first team debut playing from the start against Darlington in place of regular right back Robbie Stockdale. The match finished 1–1 with Wood putting in a very impressive debut at right back and winning Man of the Match. Wood continued this role filling in for the injured Stockdale, and also played as a makeshift left back in the place of Joe Widdowson on the odd occasion.

On 16 October Wood signed a 4-year professional contract with Grimsby. He popped up with a vital injury time assist in the 2–2 draw with Accrington Stanley on 30 October when his long ball assisted a Barry Conlon 95th minute equaliser. At the time he was playing as an emergency centre back following the sending off of defender Oliver Lancashire.

On 3 May 2010, Wood scored the winning goal for Grimsby Towns youth team in a 1–0 win over Shrewsbury Town's youth team in the Midland Floodlit Youth cup final. Wood was named Grimsby Town supporters Young Player of the Year for the 2010–11 season.[1]

During the 2012–13 season Wood was ever present as the club missed out on lifting the FA Trophy at Wembley Stadium and despite leading the Conference for the majority of the season Town were to lose out in the play-offs to Newport County. Wood was released by Town on 2 May 2013, at the time he had been the clubs current longest serving player. He bowed out of Grimsby having made 113 league appearances, scoring 1 goal.[2]

Alfreton Town

On 28 May 2013 it was announced that Wood had signed for Alfreton Town on a one-year contract.[3] He made his debut in the 1–0 defeat to Dartford on the opening day of the season and scored his first goal at the end of September in a defeat to Braintree Town.[4][5] After featuring in 49 of Alfreton's 50 games in 2013–14 he was named as the Supporters Player of the Season and the following month signed a new two-year contract, keeping him at the club until 2016.[6]

International career

Wood made his debut for England C in September 2013, coming off the bench in a 1–0 defeat to Latvia under-23s.[7] He was called into the squad again the following year for the game against Jordan under-23s.[8]

Career statistics

As of match played 26 April 2014.[9][10][11]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Grimsby Town 2009–10 League Two 8010002[lower-alpha 1]0 110
2010–11 Conference Premier 43020—2[lower-alpha 2]0 470
2010–11 Conference Premier 32150—3[lower-alpha 2]0 401
2012–13 Conference Premier 30010—5[lower-alpha 2]0 360
Total 11319000120 1341
Alfreton Town 2013–14 Conference Premier 45220—2[lower-alpha 3]0 492
2014–15 Conference Premier 0000—00 00
Total 45220—20 492
Career total 158311000140 1833
  1. ↑ Appearances in the Football League Trophy
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Appearances in the FA Trophy
  3. ↑ One appearance in the FA Trophy, one appearance in the Derbyshire Senior Cup

Honours

Grimsby Town
Alfreton Town

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Player of the Year". Grimsby Town F.C. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "The retained list". Grimsby Town F.C. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Former Grimsby Town full-back Bradley Wood joins Alfreton Town". Grimsby Telegraph. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dartford 1–0 Alfreton Town". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Braintree Town 3–1 Alfreton Town". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Bradley Wood signs new two-year contract". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "England C cap for Bradley Wood". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "England call up for Bradley Wood". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Bradley Wood career statistics". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "B. Wood". Soccerway. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  11. ↑ 2013–14 FA Trophy and Derbyshire Senior Cup appearances sourced to:
    "Trophy hopes over early". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
    "Lions tame Reds in extra time". Alfreton Town F.C. Retrieved 11 December 2013.

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