Michael Jolley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Jolley
Occupation	Association Football Manager
Date Of Birth	Mar 30, 1977(1977-03-30)
Age	47
Birthplace	Sheffield
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Michael Jolley Biography

Michael Jolley is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Manager who was born on March 30, 1977 in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. Michael Jolley, born 30 March 1977, is an English professional football coach. He was also a football manager.

In 2004, he began coaching. He previously served as a coach at five professional clubs: Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest and Lincoln City, Crewe Alexandra, Burnley, and Crewe Alexandra. He was Burnley’s U23 coach for three years. In June 2017, he was promoted to manager at AFC Eskilstuna, Sweden. After the club was demoted to Superettan, he left. Jolley was appointed manager of League Two club Grimsby Town in March 2018.

In 2011 Jolley was one of 16 coaches to participate in the inaugural FA Elite Coaches Award. He then had a brief role as first team coach at Lincoln City of the Conference Premier in 2012. In November 2012, he joined League One side Crewe Alexandra as an Academy coach; his under-16s team included future Crewe professionals Charlie Kirk, Harry Pickering and Callum Ainley. In July 2013 Michael Jolley was one of 16 coaches to complete the FA Elite Coaches Award.

Jolley was appointed senior professional development coach of the Burnley under-23 team on 7 July 2014. Burnley would spend two of the next three seasons in the Premier League (see List of Burnley F.C. seasons). His development squad won the Final Third Development League Cup final with a 2–1 victory over Stoke City U23’s in the 2015–16 season. Jolley spent three years in the role, during which time he played a role in the development of Cameron Dummigan, Tom Anderson, Luke Conlan, Luke Hendrie, Ntumba Massanka, Josh Ginnelly, Dan Agyei, Alex Whitmore, and Aiden O’Neill. In 2015, Jolley gained the League Managers Association Diploma in Football Management, which covered influencing and negotiation, mental toughness and resilience, football finance, diversity, equality and inclusion, sport science and performance analytics and focused on leadership, personal development and wellbeing. In 2016, Jolley gained his UEFA Pro Licence, from the English Football Association.

Jolley began his coaching career at Crystal Palace Academy in 2004. He stayed there for three years, producing players like Victor Moses and John Bostock. Jolley resigned in 2007 to join the academy of Nottingham Forest. Jolley was promoted to high-performance football coach at Stirling University Football Club in August 2008. Jolley recruited and coached players for the University’s football scholarship program. Jolley’s debut season saw Stirling win the Queen’s Park Shield. Jolley was also appointed coach of the Falkirk Academy. Jolley was also the head coach for the Scotland Universities Team from 2008 to09. Jolley earned a Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Coaching Sports during his time at University of Stirling. Jolley resigned from his roles at Stirling & Falkirk in 2009.

Michael Jolley Net Worth

Michael Jolley is one of the richest Association Football Manager from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Jolley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jolley was born in Sheffield and played as a youth footballer with Barnsley from 1989 to 1993. Jolley was a student at Downing College in Cambridge from 1995 to 1998. He won three “Blues” for representing Cambridge against Oxford University during the Varsity Football match. Jolley earned a bachelor’s in economics while at Cambridge. This was later converted to a masters degree.

Jolley worked as a fixed-income trader from 1999 to 2005. He was first based in London and then moved to New York. Jolley moved back to England in 2002 to be closer to his family. He continued his banking work and also became a coach for Crystal Palace football team in 2004.

Jolley was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl after a night out at a Stirling nightclub with friends in 2009. It was established in court that the girl and her friends that accompanied her to the nightclub had lied to Jolley about her true age, telling him that she was 19. The court overwhelmingly accepted, and emphasised in judgement, that Jolley would not have had sex with the girl had he not been deceived over her age. Following their own investigations both the English Football Association and the Scottish Football Association cleared him to continue working with youngsters. In 2018 following complaints to IPSO both the Daily Record and Daily Mail altered their reporting of the incident with MailOnline adding an apology to their article reporting his appointment at Grimsby Town.

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On 2 March 2018, Jolley was appointed as the new first team manager of EFL League Two side Grimsby Town on an undisclosed rolling contract. His main task for the remainder of the season was to maintain their League Two status; he worked alongside Paul Wilkinson, who continued his previous role as assistant manager. Jolley’s first game in charge was a 1–1 draw at home to Port Vale on 10 March 2018.

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Manager. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michael Jolley celebrates birthday on March 30 of every year.

The 2019/20 season began promisingly and by the end of August Grimsby were top goalscorers in League 2 and placed 4th securing Jolley his 3rd EFL League Two Manager of the Month nomination in 6 months.