Paul Harsley was born on 29 May 1978 and is an English former footballer and football coach.
25 Facts About Paul Harsley
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Paul Harsley spent the majority of his career in the English Football League, though he had spells in the Conference Premier and Northern Premier League.
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Paul Harsley spent four seasons with the club, racking up 128 league appearances, before moving to Halifax Town.
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Paul Harsley finished his career in non-League football with two years at North Ferriby United.
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Paul Harsley made 500 league and 83 cup appearances in total, scoring 52 goals.
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Paul Harsley was named Player of the Year at Scunthorpe United, Northampton Town, Macclesfield Town, and Port Vale.
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Paul Harsley coached at Scunthorpe United, Birmingham City and Barnsley and was appointed Barnsley's caretaker manager in February 2018.
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Paul Harsley coached Manchester City EDS from 2018 to 2020, was a first-team development coach at Birmingham until 2022, and then joined Huddersfield Town as a first-team assistant coach.
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Paul Harsley moved to his hometown club Scunthorpe United 7 July 1997, having not appeared for Grimsby's first team.
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Paul Harsley was given the club's Player of the Year award, the Ernie Storey Memorial Trophy.
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Paul Harsley spent one season at Halifax, which proved to be highly successful on an individual level, with Harsley ending up as their top scorer with twelve goals from fifty games; however, the team performed extremely poorly, and they were relegated out of the English Football League, a full nine points below Bristol Rovers.
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Unwilling to play in the Conference, in June 2002 Paul Harsley moved on to Northampton Town, again on a free transfer.
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Paul Harsley helped them to avoid relegation, before a signing a two-year contract in May 2004.
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Paul Harsley made 45 league appearances, making 55 appearances in all competitions.
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Paul Harsley joined Conference Premier side York City on loan until the end of the season in March 2010, teaming up with his former Vale manager Martin Foyle.
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Paul Harsley finished the loan spell with nine appearances and one goal for York, helping them to a play-off position.
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Paul Harsley trialled with Northern Premier League Premier Division team North Ferriby United in July 2010, and he signed for them in August.
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Paul Harsley made 41 appearances in league and cup games before retiring in January 2012.
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Paul Harsley was appointed as Centre of Excellence co-ordinator at Scunthorpe United in January 2011.
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In October 2016, Paul Harsley was appointed as Senior Professional Development Coach at Barnsley, with the responsibility of coaching the club's under-23 team.
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On 6 February 2018, Harsley was named as caretaker manager at Barnsley following Paul Heckingbottom's move to Leeds United.
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On 12 June 2018, Paul Harsley was appointed EDS manager at Manchester City.
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Paul Harsley rejoined Birmingham City, initially as lead professional development coach, took on some first-team duties when Lee Bowyer was appointed head coach in March 2021, and was confirmed as first-team development coach in June.
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Paul Harsley reverted to his coaching role once Mark Fotheringham was appointed as manager 14 days later.
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On 27 November 2022, it was announced that Paul Harsley had left Huddersfield after Fotheringham had brought in Kenny Miller to be his new co-assistant coach.