Jay Spearing

Jay Spearing
Spearing playing for Liverpool in 2012
Personal information
Full name Jay Francis Spearing[1]
Date of birth (1988-11-25) 25 November 1988 (age 35)[2]
Place of birth Wallasey, England
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.71 m)[3][4]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Liverpool
Number 71
Youth career
1997–2008 Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2013 Liverpool 30 (0)
2010Leicester City (loan) 7 (1)
2012–2013Bolton Wanderers (loan) 37 (2)
2013–2017 Bolton Wanderers 125 (8)
2015Blackburn Rovers (loan) 15 (1)
2017–2020 Blackpool 105 (6)
2020–2022 Tranmere Rovers 75 (4)
2022– Liverpool 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:25, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Jay Francis Spearing (born 25 November 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool, where he is also a coach at their academy.

He started his career with Liverpool as a youth-team player in 1997. He remained at Anfield for sixteen years before leaving, in 2013, for Bolton Wanderers. After four years at Bolton, he joined Blackpool, newly promoted to League One, in 2017, initially until the end of the 2017–18 season. He made the move permanent the following summer and remained at the club until 2020, before joining Tranmere Rovers for two years before his semi-retirement and movement in to coaching.

  1. ^ "Notification of shirt numbers: Tranmere Rovers" (PDF). English Football League. p. 71. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Mainstream Publishing. p. 388. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
  3. ^ "Jay Spearing". Tranmere Rovers F.C. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Jay Spearing: Overview". Premier league. Retrieved 16 August 2022.