Martin Drury
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-04-10) 10 April 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth Huddersfield, England
Position(s) Left back
Team information
Current team
 Manchester United (academy coach)
Youth career
Doncaster Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Doncaster Rovers 0 (0)
2004 → Gainsborough Trinity (loan)
2004–2006 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (0)
2006–2009 Gainsborough Trinity
2007 → Belper Town (loan)
2009–2014 Bradford (Park Avenue)
Managerial career
2015–2016 Bradford (Park Avenue)
2019 Bradford City (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Martin Drury (born 10 April 1986) is an English football coach and former player who is an academy coach at Manchester United.

Playing career

Born in Huddersfield, Drury played as a left back for Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Sheffield Wednesday, Belper Town, and Bradford (Park Avenue).[1][2][3] He retired at the age of 28 due to injury.[4]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Drury worked for Bradford (Park Avenue) (as both assistant manager and then manager), and also as a coach at Boston United.[1]

At Park Avenue, he was appointed manager in April 2015, replacing John Deacey.[5] He left the club in March 2016, and was replaced by Darren Edmondson.[6]

Drury joined Bradford City in 2016, initially working in their Academy.[4][7] In July 2017 he became a full-time youth coach at the club,[8] and in May 2018 he became Lead Development Coach for the club's entire youth set-up.[4]

He later worked as first-team coach under both Michael Collins and David Hopkin.[7] In February 2019, after the resignation of Hopkin, Drury was appointed as the club's caretaker manager.[7] A few days later he appointed Paul Caddis as club captain, replacing Anthony O'Connor.[9] Drury's first game in charge, on 2 March 2019, was a 5–1 away defeat against Portsmouth. After the game, Drury said that appointing a new permanent manager was a "matter of urgency".[10] Two days later, on 4 March 2019, Gary Bowyer was appointed as Bradford City manager until the end of the 2018–19 season.[11] Drury was retained by the club as a coach.[12] By August 2021 his role was 'Senior Technical and Tactical Coach'.[13] He became Head of Academy Coaching in March 2022,[14] and later that month spoke positively about the achievements of the youth team.[15]

In July 2022 he became an academy coach at Manchester United.[16]

Personal life

As of November 2012, Drury was married with two sons.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Profile". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  2. ^ Ian Whiting (6 December 2012). "Martin Drury injury may prompt Bradford Park Avenue rethink". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. ^ Martin Drury at Soccerbase
  4. ^ a b c "New Challenge For Drury". Bradford City A.F.C. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  5. ^ Steven Coney (28 April 2015). "Martin Drury steps up to replace John Deacey at Bradford PA". The Non-League Football Paper. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  6. ^ Ian Whiting (26 March 2016). "No regrets from Drury after being replaced as Park Avenue boss". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Richard Sutcliffe (25 February 2019). "Martin Drury steps in at Portsmouth as Bradford City begin their search to replace David Hopkin". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  8. ^ "BANTAMS RECRUIT COACHING TRIO". Bradford City A.F.C. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  9. ^ Simon Parker (28 February 2019). "Caddis named Bradford City captain". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  10. ^ Simon Parker (4 March 2019). "Bantams poised to reveal new manager TODAY". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Gary Bowyer: Bradford City appoint former Blackburn and Blackpool boss as manager". BBC Sport. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  12. ^ Simon Parker (9 March 2019). "Bradford City boss won't make coaching changes". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Two new Bradford City coaches named in academy restructure". Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  14. ^ "Drury given new role in Bradford City academy after Nightingale joins Liverpool". Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  15. ^ "City set to hand out record number of deals as teen talents shine". Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  16. ^ "Bantams confirm Drury's departure for Manchester United". Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  17. ^ "Martin Drury". Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2019.


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