Adam Farley

Adam Farley
Personal information
Full name Adam John Farley
Date of birth (1980-01-12) 12 January 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Position(s) Central defender
Youth career
1994–98 Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2000 Everton 1 (0)
2000–2001 Altrincham 34 (1)
2001–2004 Droylsden 209 (5)
2004–2005 Witton Albion 45 (3)
2005–2009 Marine 221 (6)
2010 Leigh Genesis 9 (2)
2010–2011 Formby 2 (0)
2011 Burscough 37 (5)
2011– AFC Liverpool 18 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adam Farley (born 12 January 1980) is an English footballer who most recently played for AFC Liverpool. He is a defender.

Career

Farley joined Everton as a schoolboy and was part of their 1998 FA Youth Cup-winning team; he was man of the match in the second leg of the final.[citation needed] He made one first team appearance, coming on as a substitute against Derby County in February 1999, and was substitute at West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur. However, at the end of February 1999 he broke his cheekbone and jaw in an under-19s match, and he made no further first team appearances before being released in May 2000.[1]

He joined Altrincham in 2000, making 34 league appearances and scoring one goal for the club.[2] He joined Droylsden[3] at the start of the 2001–02 season, staying with them for three years. Droylsden enjoyed the best season in their history in 2003-2004 while captained by Farley, winning four trophies, and he collected player of the year awards in 2002–03 and 2003–04.[citation needed] In late 2004 he joined Witton Albion on loan.[4]

Farley returned to his home city of Liverpool at the start of the 2005–06 season, signing for Marine, where he collected the player of the year award in the 2006–07 season.[citation needed] He also won the Liverpool senior cup with Marine beating Liverpool FC in the final 2–1.

In 2009 Farley was banned from football for 9 months and fined £250 for betting against his own team in two matches, one of which he played in.[5][6]

After a brief stint at Burscough at the start of the 2010–11 season, Farley signed for Leigh Genesis[7] to help out a friend and former teammate, Mark Maddox. In December, he moved with teammate John Lawless to Formby.[8] The pair only played in two games before manager Gary Martindale and the entire first team resigned in January 2011.[9] Farley and Lawless were swiftly signed by Burscough,[10] but in November 2011 Farley moved to A.F.C. Liverpool[11] and was a member of their first team squad in 2011–12.[12]

Honours

Club

Everton
Droylsden
Marine

Individual

Droylsden
  • Players Player of the Year: 2003
  • Players Player of the Year: 2004
Marine
  • Players Player of the Year: 2007

Personal life

Farley was born in Liverpool and attended both primary and secondary schools in Croxteth, Merseyside. His secondary school De La Salle Humanities College,[citation needed] was also attended by Wayne Rooney and Francis Jeffers.

References

  1. ^ "Everton Past Players: Adam Farley". ToffeeWeb. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  2. ^ Altrincham Statistics 2000–01 Archived 21 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Match Details: Hyde 0–3 Droylsden". Hyde FC. 7 October 2001. Retrieved 8 December 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ "Altrincham FC Archived News: Old boys". Altrincham FC. 2 December 2004. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Marine v Altrincham, 6 August 2005". Altrincham FC. 12 December 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Four Mersey non-league footballers banned for betting breaches". Liverpool Echo. 12 December 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Maddox hits out at 'joke' record". The Bolton News. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Formby FC boss Gary Martindale disappointed to lose John Paul Kissock". Formby Times. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  9. ^ "Caretaker Boss Appointed". Formby FC Official site. 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  10. ^ "Two Ex Squirrels Join Linnets". Non-League Daily. 25 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  11. ^ liverpoolecho Administrator (12 November 2011). "AFC Liverpool land "best defender in the league" says manager Adam Farley". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  12. ^ "2011/12 Squad". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.