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Michael Anthony Collins (born 30 April 1986) is an English football player and coach. He is currently the Lead u23s coach for Sheffield United.

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Michael Collins

Personal information
Full name	Michael Anthony Collins[1]
Date of birth	(1986-04-30) 30 April 1986 (age 36)[1]
Place of birth	Halifax, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
0000–2004	Huddersfield Town
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2010	Huddersfield Town	173	(19)
2010–2014	Scunthorpe United	79	(2)
2014	→ AFC Wimbledon (loan)	9	(0)
2014–2016	Oxford United	39	(2)
2015	→ York City (loan)	7	(0)
2016	Bengaluru FC	11	(0)
2016–2017	Leyton Orient	30	(0)
2017–2018	F.C. Halifax Town	22	(0)
2018–	Alfreton Town	3	(0)
National team
2003	Republic of Ireland U18
2003–2005	Republic of Ireland U19
2007–2008	Republic of Ireland U21	6	(2)
Teams managed
2018	Bradford City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:07, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

As a player, he has played club football for Huddersfield Town, Scunthorpe United, AFC Wimbledon, Oxford United, York City, Leyton Orient and F.C. Halifax Town; he also had a spell playing in India for I-League side Bengaluru and represented the Republic of Ireland under-18, under-19 and under-21 teams.

Club career

Huddersfield Town

Collins was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.[1] Having come through Huddersfield Town's academy, he made his first team debut in a 1–0 home win over Blackpool on 19 February 2005.[2] Collins made eight appearances in the 2004–05 season, with seven of them being starts.[2] He signed a professional contract with the club on 11 May 2005.[1]

He made his first start of the 2005–06 season coming on as an 89th-minute substitute in a 3–1 home win over Swansea City on 13 August 2005.[3] His first start came in a 4–2 away win in the League Cup over Chesterfield on 24 August 2005.[3] Collins scored his first goal on 18 February 2006 in a 5–0 win over Milton Keynes Dons.[3] He came on as a substitute in the FA Cup third round tie in January 2006 against Premier League champions Chelsea,[3] and set-up Gary Taylor-Fletcher for an equaliser.^{[citation needed]} Collins made 21 appearances in all competitions Huddersfield in 2005–06.[3]

Collins made his first appearance of 2006–07 on the opening day of the season, coming on in the 66th minute in a 2–1 away defeat away to Gillingham.[4] He made his first start of the season in a 2–0 defeat by Mansfield Town at home in the first round of the League Cup on 22 August 2006.[4] His first league start of the season came on 26 August 2006 in a 1–1 draw at home with Nottingham Forest.[4] Collins scored his first goal of the season in a 2–1 away win over Port Vale on 21 October 2006.[4] He scored in the last two matches of the season; first in a 4–2 win over Millwall on 21 April 2007 and then on the final day in a 3–1 win over Leyton Orient on 5 May.[4] Collins finished 2006–07 with 46 appearances in all competitions, starting 41 with five coming of the bench, scoring four goals.[4]

He scored his first league goal of 2007–08 in Huddersfield's 2–0 win over Yeovil Town at Huish Park on 2 February 2008.[5] During 2007–08, Huddersfield manager Andy Ritchie tended to use Collins as cover in right-back and right-midfield positions, but he mainly tended to use Collins in tandem with Andy Holdsworth in Huddersfield's central midfield.^{[citation needed]} On 16 February 2008, Collins equalised Frank Lampard's goal on the stroke of half-time in the FA Cup fifth round at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea.[5] However, Huddersfield lost the match 3–1.[5]

After being left out of the first-team squad for the most of the first part of 2008–09 by manager Stan Ternent, he was re-called to the team by caretaker manager Gerry Murphy to play in the FA Cup first-round tie at home to Port Vale.^{[citation needed]} Collins scored Huddersfield's equaliser, but was unable to prevent them losing 4–3.[6] A week later, Collins scored his first league goal of the season, with a 90th-minute winner in a 2–1 win at Elland Road against local rivals Leeds United.[6] Collins scored 10 goals in 2008–09, from 39 appearances.[6]

Collins gained a red card in Huddersfield's first match of 2009–10 away to Southend United on 8 August 2009.[7] His first goal of the season came in the 65th minute of Huddersfield's 2–1 home victory over Yeovil Town on 29 August 2009.[7] Collins was ruled out for the remainder of 2009–10 in April 2010, following surgery on a broken finger,^{[citation needed]} but he returned as a substitute in the 2–1 defeat at Exeter City.[7] He then came on as an 89th-minute substitute in the first leg of Huddersfield's play-off semi-final match with Millwall,[7] and was an unused substitute in the second leg defeat at The Den on 18 May 2010.^{[citation needed]} Collins made 35 appearances in 2009–10, scoring three goals.[7] Along with seven other players, he was added to the transfer list by manager Lee Clark in May 2010.[8]

Scunthorpe United

Collins joined Championship club Scunthorpe United on 6 July 2010 for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.[9]

On 20 February 2014, Collins joined AFC Wimbledon on loan for the rest of the 2013–14 season.[10]

Oxford United

On 15 July 2014, Collins signed a one-year deal at Oxford United, becoming new manager Michael Appleton's first signing.[11] Appleton said: "Michael has played 300 league games, most of them at a higher level, and will bring a little bit of know-how and quality to the squad."[11] He made 43 appearances for Oxford, scoring twice, before joining their League Two rivals York City on 2 October 2015 on a one-month loan.[12] Collins left Oxford by mutual agreement on 7 January 2016, after failing to make any first-team appearances in the 2015–16 season.[13]

Bengaluru

On 21 January 2016, Collins signed for I-League club Bengaluru.[14] He played a total of 11 league matches for the Blues' and left the club in May 2016.[15]

Leyton Orient

On 28 October 2016, Collins signed for Leyton Orient on a three-month contract.[16] He turned down the offer of a new one-year contract with Orient at the end of 2016–17, after the club's relegation to the National League.[17]

F.C. Halifax Town

On 9 December 2017, Collins came out of retirement to sign for his hometown club, F.C. Halifax Town of the National League.[18]

Alfreton Town

He returned to playing in December 2018 with Alfreton Town.[19]

International career

Qualifying through the parentage rule, Collins made his international debut in a Republic of Ireland under-18 match in April 2003.^{[citation needed]} He was the captain of the Irish under-19 squad and on 14 March 2007, he got his first call-up to the Republic of Ireland under-21 squad for a match against the Netherlands.^{[citation needed]} However, he was forced to withdraw from the squad after picking up a shoulder injury in a league match for Huddersfield against Brighton & Hove Albion.^{[citation needed]}

Collins made his under-21 debut against Germany in a friendly match at the Sportpark Ronhof in Fürth on 21 August 2007.^{[citation needed]} His home debut came against Portugal at Turners Cross in Cork on 7 September 2007.^{[citation needed]} On 15 May 2008, he scored his first goals for the under-21s in a 3–1 win over Malaysia in an Intercontinental Cup match in Malaysia.^{[citation needed]} Collins made six appearances scoring twice between 2007 and 2008.[20]

Coaching career

Bradford Under 18's

In July 2017, Collins joined League One club Bradford City as their under-18s lead coach.[21]

Bradford head coach

He was appointed head coach of Bradford City on 18 June 2018, with Martin Drury and Greg Abbott named as his assistants.[22] He won his first league game, 1-0 away at Shrewsbury, but won only one more game out of 7 in total,[23] and was sacked by the club on 3 September 2018.[24] He later became a coach at Sunderland's Academy.[23]

Personal life

He is the cousin of professional rugby league players Scott Grix and Simon Grix.[25]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup[lower-alpha 1]		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Huddersfield Town	2004–05[2]	League One	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
	2005–06[3]	League One	17	1	2	0	1	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	21	1
	2006–07[4]	League One	43	4	1	0	1	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	46	4
	2007–08[5]	League One	41	2	5	1	1	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	1	48	4
	2008–09[6]	League One	36	9	1	1	1	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	39	10
	2009–10[7]	League One	28	3	3	0	1	0	3[lower-alpha 3]	0	35	3
	Total		173	19	12	2	5	0	7	1	197	22
Scunthorpe United	2010–11[26]	Championship	32	1	1	1	3	1	—		36	3
	2011–12[27]	League One	1	0	0	0	1	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	3	0
	2012–13[28]	League One	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	30	1
	2013–14[29]	League Two	17	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	20	0
	Total		79	2	4	1	5	1	1	0	89	4
AFC Wimbledon (loan)	2013–14[29]	League Two	9	0	—		—		—		9	0
Oxford United	2014–15[30]	League Two	39	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	43	2
	2015–16[31]	League Two	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		39	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	43	2
York City (loan)	2015–16[31]	League Two	7	0	1	0	—		2[lower-alpha 2]	0	10	0
Bengaluru	2015–16[32]	I-League	10	0			—		6[lower-alpha 4]	0	16	0
Leyton Orient	2016–17[33]	League Two	30	0	0	0	—		1[lower-alpha 5]	0	31	0
F.C. Halifax Town	2017–18[32]	National League	22	0	—		—		1[lower-alpha 6]	0	23	0
Career total			369	23	19	3	12	1	18	1	418	28

Managerial statistics

As of match played 1 September 2018

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record								Ref
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bradford City		18 June 2018	3 September 2018	7	2	1	4	5	9	−4	028.57	[34]
Career Total				7	2	1	4	5	9	−4	028.57	—

Honours

Scunthorpe United

• Football League Two runner-up: 2013–14[32]

Bengaluru

• I-League: 2015–16[32]

References

External links

• Michael Collins profile at the Football Association of Ireland website
• Michael Collins at Soccerbase

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