Adam Yates (footballer)
Yates as a Port Vale player in September 2010.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Adam Paul Yates | ||
| Date of birth | 28 May 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Port Vale | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–2002 | Crewe Alexandra | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2004 | Crewe Alexandra | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Halifax Town (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Leek Town | 82 | (2) |
| 2006–2009 | Morecambe | 123 | (2) |
| 2008 | → Burton Albion (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2009– | Port Vale | 212 | (4) |
| 2015 | → Northampton Town (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2006–2007 | England C | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 9 May 2016 (UTC). |
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Adam Paul Yates (born 28 May 1983) is an English footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL League Two side Port Vale. He is a former semi-pro international with England.
Having spent ten years at the Crewe Alexandra Academy, he turned professional with the club in 2002. He spent five months of the 2003–04 season on loan at Conference club Halifax Town, though was released by his parent club at the end of the season, never having made a first team appearance for Crewe. He then spent two season at non-league Leek Town, before he was signed by Morecambe in August 2006. He helped the club win promotion into the Football League as the Conference's play-off winners in 2007. He played 54 games in 2007–08, though started the 2008–09 season on loan at Conference club Burton Albion. He signed with Port Vale in June 2009, and went on to make the right-back slot his own in the 2009–10, 2010–11 and 2011–12 campaigns. He helped the club to secure promotion out of League Two in 2012–13. He lost his first team place at Port Vale in August 2015 and was loaned out to Northampton Town.
Yates passed up through the ranks of the Crewe Alexandra youth system to become a professional in 2002, and spent five months on loan with Halifax Town during the 2003–04 season. After being released by Crewe Alexandra in May 2004, never having made the first team, he signed for Leek Town.
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