Steve Yates (footballer born 1970)
Yates with Bristol Rovers in 2016
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Yates | ||
| Date of birth | 29 January 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Bristol, England | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1993 | Bristol Rovers | 197 | (0) |
| 1993–1999 | Queens Park Rangers | 135 | (2) |
| 1999–2002 | Tranmere Rovers | 113 | (7) |
| 2002–2003 | Sheffield United | 12 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | Huddersfield Town | 52 | (1) |
| 2006 | Scarborough | 1 | (0) |
| 2006 | Halifax Town | 3 | (0) |
| 2006 | Morecambe | 8 | (0) |
| 2006 | Caernarfon Town | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 523 | (10) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 June 2007. |
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Stephen "Steve" Yates (born 29 January 1970 in Bristol) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. In 2013, he returned to his first club, Bristol Rovers, as the club's new kit manager. a year later he combined this role with coaching.
Yates began his footballing career as a YTS trainee at Bristol Rovers in 1986. In seven years with his home town club he played 197 games without scoring any goals.
When manager Gerry Francis moved to Queens Park Rangers from Bristol Rovers in 1991, a number of Rovers players later followed him to the London club. Yates was one of these, when he joined in August 1993. He made his debut that month against Liverpool. Yates played 134 league games for Queens Park Rangers and scored 2 goals before transferring to Tranmere Rovers in 1999.
Yates was a cult hero at Tranmere, where he became a certified 'goal machine' and he is best remembered for scoring two goals in a Merseyside derby against Everton at Goodison Park when Tranmere dumped out the Premier League outfit 3-0 in the 2000-01 FA Cup. That same season he also scored one of the goals as Tranmere knocked Leeds United out of the League Cup. Yates stayed there up until 2002 when he transferred to Sheffield United. Whilst at Tranmere he played in the 2000 Football League Cup Final, coming on as a substitute in the final against Leicester City.
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