 Murray in 2011 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adam David Murray[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1981[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Birmingham, England[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Eastbourne Borough (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1998 | Derby County | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2003 | Derby County | 54 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Mansfield Town (loan) | 13 | (7) |
| 2003 | → Kidderminster Harriers (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2003 | Notts County | 1 | (0) |
| 2003 | Burton Albion | 2 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Notts County | 2 | (0) |
| 2004 | Kidderminster Harriers | 19 | (3) |
| 2004–2005 | Mansfield Town | 32 | (5) |
| 2005–2006 | Carlisle United | 47 | (2) |
| 2006–2007 | Torquay United | 21 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Macclesfield Town | 34 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Oxford United | 88 | (11) |
| 2010 | Luton Town | 7 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Mansfield Town (loan) | 12 | (1) |
| 2011–2015 | Mansfield Town | 127 | (10) |
| 2013 | → Rainworth Miners Welfare (loan) | ||
| 2013 | → Worksop Town (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2018 | Sutton Coldfield | ||
| Total | 466 | (39) | |
| International career | |||
| 2002 | England U20 | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2016 | Mansfield Town | ||
| 2016–2017 | Boston United | ||
| 2019 | Barnsley (caretaker) | ||
| 2020 | Barnsley (caretaker) | ||
| 2022 | Beşiktaş (assistant) | ||
| 2022–2023 | AFC Fylde | ||
| 2023 | Cheltenham Town (assistant) | ||
| 2024– | Eastbourne Borough | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Adam David Murray (born 30 September 1981) is an English football manager and former professional footballer who is the manager at National League South club Eastbourne Borough. A creative midfielder, he made over 500 appearances in a 17-year playing career in the Premier League, Football League and Football Conference.
An England under-20 international, Murray turned professional at Derby County, making his Premier League debut in April 1999. He played 62 games in six seasons at Derby, including 32 Premier League matches, but struggled with alcoholism and spent four weeks in recovery at the Priory Hospital. He spent time on loan at Mansfield Town (winning promotion out of the Third Division in 2001–02) and Kidderminster Harriers, before leaving Derby in November 2003. He had brief non-contract spells at Notts County and Burton Albion before seeing out the 2003–04 season with Kidderminster Harriers. He signed with Mansfield Town in June 2004, moving on to Carlisle United in March 2005. He helped Carlisle to win promotion back into the Football League through the Conference National play-offs in 2005 and then to win the League Two title in 2005–06, whilst also reaching the 2006 Football League Trophy final. He joined Torquay United for a £10,000 fee in August 2006 and was sold on to Macclesfield Town for £17,500 in January 2007. He returned to the Conference Premier upon joining Oxford United in January 2008.
He spent two and a half seasons at Oxford and was club captain for many of his 97 appearances. However, he missed the second half of the 2009–10 campaign and the subsequent 2010 play-off final victory due to injury. He remained in the Conference Premier, signing with Luton Town in July 2010. Three months later, he was loaned out to Mansfield Town through a deal made permanent in January 2011. He would spend four and a half seasons with Mansfield, taking his final tally with the club over his four different spells to 211 games and 24 goals. He featured on the losing side in the 2011 FA Trophy final and was named as the club's Player of the Season as Mansfield won promotion into the Football League as champions of the Conference Premier in 2012–13. He had short loan spells at Rainworth Miners Welfare and Worksop Town after falling out of favour in 2013. He retired from playing at the end of the 2014–15 season, though he briefly came out of retirement to play for Sutton Coldfield in 2018.
He was appointed as Mansfield Town's assistant manager whilst still a player and became caretaker manager in November 2014. He got the job permanently the following month, aged 33, and kept the club in League Two with a 21st-place finish. A 12th-place finish followed in the 2015–16 season before he quit the club in November 2016. He was appointed Boston United manager the next month, taking the club to a 15th-place finish in the National League North at the end of the 2016–17 season. He resigned in October 2017 and was named assistant manager at Guiseley the following month. He left Guiseley in February 2018 and went on to coach at Burton Albion, Barnsley, West Bromwich Albion, Port Vale and Beşiktaş. He served Barnsley as caretaker manager in October 2019 and October 2020. He took charge at AFC Fylde in November 2022 and led the club to the National League North title at the end of the 2022–23 season before being sacked in October 2023. He joined Cheltenham Town as assistant manager in October 2023 and was appointed manager at Eastbourne Borough in January 2024.
- ^ a b Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 447. ISBN 978-1-85291-665-7.
- ^ "England - A. Murray - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Adam Murray at Soccerbase
