Conor Coady’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English association football player
A.K.A. Conor David Coady
Is Athlete 
Football player 
Association football player 
From United Kingdom 
England 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 25 February 1993, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Age: 27 years
Star sign Pisces
Stats
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 78 kg

Conor David Coady (born 25 February 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he is also club captain.

Coady came through the academy system at his local club Liverpool and made two appearances for the first team before spending a season on loan at Sheffield United and then moving to Huddersfield Town on a permanent transfer in 2014. A year later he signed for Wolverhampton Wanderers for £2 million and played over 200 games for the club, winning the Championship in 2017–18.

He has also represented England at youth level, being named in the team of the tournament as England won the 2010 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and captaining the England under-20 team at the 2013 under-20 World Cup.

Club career

Liverpool

Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Coady grew up supporting Liverpool. He is a product of the Liverpool Youth Academy after joining the club in 2005. During the 2010–11 season, Coady was on the fringes of the first team, making the subs bench twice but failed to make a first-team appearance. Coady played every Reserve League and NextGen Series match during the 2011–12 season, scoring five goals. Despite being named in the senior squad list and being called up to the senior squad occasionally from 2009, he did not make his senior début until 8 November 2012 in a UEFA Europa League group stage match against Anzhi Makhachkala. After Andre Wisdom’s promotion as a full-time senior squad member, Conor Coady was installed as full-time captain of the Under-21 squad and on 12 May 2013 he made his Premier League debut in a 3–1 win at Fulham.

Coady agreed a six-month loan deal with League One club Sheffield United on 22 July 2013, later stating that he had turned down the chance to go on Liverpool’s pre-season tour of Australia and the Far East in order to join up with his new club. Coady made his debut for the Blades in the opening fixture of the following season, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–1 home victory over Notts County, and made his first start for the club in the following game, a League Cup first round defeat to League Two club Burton Albion.

Coady scored his first senior goal in a 1–1 draw at Leyton Orient on 30 November 2013. Having been in and out of the team during the first half of the season, Coady began to cement a regular first-team place over the Christmas period, prompting United to extend his loan spell during the January transfer window, and once more in February to extend his stay until the end of the season. Coady played regularly for the Blades for the remainder of the season and returned to Anfield having played 50 games and scored six goals.

Huddersfield Town

On 6 August 2014, Coady signed for Championship club Huddersfield Town on a three-year deal for a fee believed to be around £500,000. He made his debut as a substitute in the 4–0 defeat by Bournemouth on 9 August. On 1 October, he scored his first goal for the club against Wolverhampton Wanderers where Town won 3–1 at Molineux Stadium. He again found the net, this time in a 2–2 draw against Rotherham United.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 3 July 2015, Coady signed for Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around £2 million. He scored his first goal for Wolves in a 2–1 EFL Cup first round win against Crawley Town on 9 August 2016.

As of the start of the 2017–18 season under manager Nuno Espírito Santo, Coady played at centre-half in a three-man defence for Wolves. In September 2017 that year he signed a new four-year contract. On 21 April 2018, during his 120th league appearance for Wolves, Coady scored a 66th minute penalty in a 4–0 win against Bolton Wanderers to get his first league goal for the club, as Wolves sealed the EFL Championship title.

On 15 February 2019 Coady signed a new contact lasting to the summer of 2023.

International career

Coady has represented England from under-16 to under-20 youth levels. He has been capped 17 times for the England national under-17 football team. He played and captained the England team at the 2010 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Liechtenstein where he and his England colleagues won the tournament, and became the first England team to win an international tournament in 17 years. He was then part of the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Estonia in which England got as far as the semi-finals where they were knocked out by Greece. He was named captain of the England under-20 team by manager Peter Taylor for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his debut for the team on 16 June, in a 3–0 win in a warm-up game against Uruguay. On 23 June, he scored in the opening group-stage game against Iraq.

Career statistics

Club

As of 1 February 2020
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Liverpool 2012–13 Premier League 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
Sheffield United (loan) 2013–14 League One 39 5 8 1 1 0 2 0 50 6
Huddersfield Town 2014–15 Championship 45 3 1 0 2 0 — 48 3
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2015–16 Championship 37 0 1 0 1 0 — 39 0
2016–17 40 0 2 0 3 1 — 45 1
2017–18 45 1 1 0 2 0 — 48 1
2018–19 Premier League 38 0 6 0 2 0 — 46 0
2019–20 25 0 2 0 0 0 12 0 39 0
Total 185 1 12 0 8 1 12 0 217 2
Career total 270 9 21 1 11 1 15 0 317 11

Honours

Wolverhampton Wanderers

  • EFL Championship: 2017–18

England U17

  • UEFA European Under-17 Championship: 2010

Individual

  • UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2010
  • EFL Championship Team of the Season: 2017–18
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