Steven Gillespie
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steven Gillespie | ||
| Date of birth | 4 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Warrington Town | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001–2004 | Liverpool | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2006 | Bristol City | 12 | (1) |
| 2005 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 12 | (5) |
| 2005–2006 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 9 | (3) |
| 2006–2008 | Cheltenham Town | 67 | (21) |
| 2008–2012 | Colchester United | 98 | (25) |
| 2012–2014 | Fleetwood Town | 22 | (4) |
| 2013–2014 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2014 | Bristol Rovers | 13 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Altrincham | 22 | (1) |
| 2015– | Warrington Town | 0 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC). |
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Steven Gillespie (born 4 June 1985) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for Warrington Town as a striker.
Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Gillespie began his career as a trainee for Liverpool.
Gillespie began his career with Liverpool having carved out a name for himself as a goalscorer in schoolboy football. He broke Robbie Fowler's goal-scoring record for Liverpool Schools; he later had his record broken by Wayne Rooney.
In 2004, having had few opportunities at Liverpool, he was released and was quickly signed by Bristol City, of League One.
He continued to find himself without many chances and later in 2004 was sent on-loan to Cheltenham Town of League Two, where he scored four goals in five appearances. Gillespie once again joined Cheltenham on loan at the end of the 2004–05 season, and again in the first half of the 2005–2006 season, scoring a further five goals. He signed a permanent two-and-a-half-year contract in January 2006, for an undisclosed fee.
Despite signing a new contract in August 2007, Gillespie handed in a transfer request in the summer of 2008 after having an impressive season with Cheltenham as they finished in mid-table in League One. Less than a week after handing in the request, Gillespie was sold to fellow League One club Colchester United for a fee of £400,000.
On 7 July 2008, Gillespie signed for Colchester following a successful season with Cheltenham in which he scored 16 goals. It was a club record signing, as the U's looked to bounce back to the Championship.
Unfortunately for both Gillespie and Colchester, however, his time with the club was dogged by injuries from shortly after his arrival, despite having made a promising start with three goals from his first three outings.
His first season in Essex continued to be stop-start and, although when he managed to play he continued to show his natural, goalscoring instinct and displayed this in scoring five goals in his little time spent on the pitch, he struggled to rack up game time and barely managed a ninety-minute performance. This was compounded when, in the 5–0 home win over Carlisle he managed just sixteen minutes in his return from injury before having to go off injured once more.
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