Bryan Hughes was born on 19 June 1976 and is an English football manager and former professional footballer.
22 Facts About Bryan Hughes
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Bryan Hughes played as a midfielder from 1994 to 2015, notably Premier League for Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic and Hull City as well as featuring in the Football League for Wrexham, Derby County, Burton Albion and Accrington Stanley, in the Conference for Grimsby Town, and for Icelandic club IBV Vestmannaeyjar.
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Bryan Hughes finished his career at non-league club Scarborough Athletic.
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Bryan Hughes scored against Colwyn Bay, Scunthorpe United, West Ham United and Birmingham before the Welsh outfit bowed out to Chesterfield.
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Bryan Hughes made a total of 293 appearances for the Blues, scoring 42 goals, and was an essential part of Steve Bruce's side's playoff-winning season in 2002, and their first and second seasons in the Premier League, before his switch to south-east London.
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Bryan Hughes made his debut for Charlton against Bolton Wanderers on 14 August 2004, when he came on as a substitute for Matt Holland who was injured after twelve minutes.
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Bryan Hughes made 22 appearances for Charlton during the season, and scored his fourth and final goal of the season in the last game against Crystal Palace.
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Bryan Hughes made 40 appearances in total for Charlton, and scored five goals.
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On 30 December 2006, Bryan Hughes scored a last-minute winning goal against Aston Villa, providing new Charlton manager Alan Pardew with his first win for the club.
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Bryan Hughes made 39 appearances that season, including all three playoff matches, as Hull were promoted to the Premier League for the first time in their history.
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Bryan Hughes did not play as often in the next season in the Premier League, making only eight appearances.
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Bryan Hughes signed for Derby County on a month's loan on 22 October 2009, and made three appearances before returning to Hull.
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Bryan Hughes only played three times for the club, and was among a number of players released at the end of the season by the club's new managerial duo Rob Scott and Paul Hurst.
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In 2011, Bryan Hughes joined Icelandic club IBV Vestmannaeyjar, who were playing in the UEFA Europa League that season.
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On 27 October 2011, Bryan Hughes joined League Two club Accrington Stanley on non-contract terms.
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Bryan Hughes made 22 appearances for Accrington, scoring three times, and left the club at the end of the season after contract negotiations broke down.
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In March 2013, Bryan Hughes joined Scarborough Athletic of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division until the end of the season.
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In October 2015, alongside his role with Scarborough, Bryan Hughes took up the post of head of coaching at the i2i International Soccer Academy, a facility associated with York St John University.
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On 6 February 2019, Bryan Hughes was appointed as manager of National League club Wrexham on a three-and-a-half-year deal.
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Bryan Hughes's team finished the season in fourth place but lost in the play-off quarter-final.
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Bryan Hughes made one appearance for a Football League under-21 representative team in a friendly against an Italian Serie B under-21 team.
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In 2014, Bryan Hughes was appointed as head of the UK footgolf academy scheme.