Simon Whaley
Whaley playing for Preston North End in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Simon Whaley | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Bolton, England | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2006 | Bury | 73 | (11) |
| 2006–2009 | Preston North End | 120 | (14) |
| 2008 | → Barnsley (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Norwich City | 3 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Rochdale (loan) | 9 | (2) |
| 2009 | → Bradford City (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 2010 | Chesterfield | 6 | (1) |
| 2010–2011 | Doncaster Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | Burton Albion | 3 | (0) |
| 2011 | Chorley | 19 | (4) |
| Total | 243 | (34) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Simon Whaley (born 7 June 1985) is an English former footballer who played as a winger. He made more than 200 appearances in the Football League playing for Bury, Preston North End, Barnsley, Norwich City, Rochdale and Bradford City.
Whaley was born in Bolton and began his football career as a trainee with Bury. His trainer Paul Fortune always encouraged that one day he'd become a premier league player, and still believes it to this day. Fortune always honoured his trainee and on his 18th Birthday he received a full PNE football kit with Whaleys name and number on the back. He made his first-team debut in the Football League Trophy in October 2002 and made his first appearance in the Football League on 9 November 2002 as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 defeat at home to Torquay United, and went on to make 85 appearances for the club. After scoring seven goals in the first half of the 2005–06 season, bringing his career total to 11, Whaley stepped up two divisions to join Preston North End of the Championship in January 2006. He signed a four-and-a-half-year deal for a fee of £250,000 possibly rising to £300,000. He made his debut for Preston as a second-half substitute for in the League match against Millwall on 14 January, and went on to make a further 17 appearances that season, scoring three times in the last three away matches of the League season, against Leicester City, Coventry City and Hull City, as North End reached the play-offs.
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