Matthew "Matty" Kay is an English

England

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 footballer who plays for AFC Fylde as a midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

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Career

Born in Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

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, Kay made his debut for Blackpool

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

 against Scunthorpe United

Scunthorpe United F.C.

Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, who play in the Football League One....

 on 13 November 2005, in front of the Sky Sports

Sky Sports

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 cameras, setting a new club record as the youngest player, at 16 years 32 days, ever to play for Blackpool in a league match. Trevor Sinclair

Trevor Sinclair

Trevor Lloyd Sinclair is an English former professional footballer. Sinclair was a versatile winger, able to play on both the left and right flanks who played in the Premier League and made twelve appearances for the England national team.He retired in 2008, after a nineteen-year professional...

 previously held the Blackpool record for a league match after his debut in 1989, at the age of 16 years 170 days. At the time, Kay was still a pupil at Collegiate High School in Blackpool. Kay signed professional terms with Blackpool in June 2006 after leaving school the previous month. On 7 May 2008 Blackpool activated an option to extend his contract with the club by one year.

After becoming a regular in the Blackpool reserve team, on 17 October 2008 Kay signed for Conference North

Conference North

The Conference North also known as Blue Square Bet North for sponsorship reasons, is a division of the Football Conference in England, taking its place immediately below the Conference National. Along with Conference South it is at Step 2 of the National League System and the sixth overall tier of...

 club Fleetwood Town

Fleetwood Town F.C.

Fleetwood Town F.C. is an English football club based in Fleetwood, Lancashire. They currently play in the Conference National having been defeated in the Conference National play-off semi-final by AFC Wimbledon in the 2010–11 season.-History:...

 on loan until 22 November. He made his debut for Fleetwood on 18 October in a 2–1 home defeat at Highbury Stadium

Highbury Stadium, Fleetwood

Highbury Stadium is a football stadium in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England with Wyre Borough Council as the landlords. It is the home ground of Fleetwood Town and is also used for home matches by Blackpool F.C. reserves. As of the opening of the new Parkside Stand on 16 April 2011, the ground has a...

 against Stalybridge Celtic

Stalybridge Celtic F.C.

Stalybridge Celtic are an English full time professional football club from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester in North West England. The club, which plays its home matches at Bower Fold, is currently in the Conference North in the sixth tier of the English football league system...

. On 25 October 2008 he played in Fleetwood's FA Cup fourth qualifying round 4–3 win over Nantwich Town

Nantwich Town F.C.

Nantwich Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. The club was founded in 1884 and is nicknamed The Dabbers. The club is currently a member of the Northern Premier League Premier Division, with home matches played at the Weaver Stadium.Nantwich...

, which saw the club reach the First Round Proper, in which they played Leiston

Leiston F.C.

Leiston F.C. is an English football club based in Leiston, Suffolk. The club are currently members of the Isthmian League Division One North and play at Victory Road.-History:...

 of the Eastern Counties League

Eastern Counties Football League

The Eastern Counties Football League is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is a feeder to the regional divisions of the Isthmian League and Southern...

 Premier Division with Kay helping Fleetwood to win the replay at Highbury Stadium

Highbury Stadium, Fleetwood

Highbury Stadium is a football stadium in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England with Wyre Borough Council as the landlords. It is the home ground of Fleetwood Town and is also used for home matches by Blackpool F.C. reserves. As of the opening of the new Parkside Stand on 16 April 2011, the ground has a...

 2-0 on 18 November and so reach the second round.

The loan was extended on 21 November, keeping Kay at Highbury until 26 December. He returned to Blackpool on 30 December.

On 9 June 2009, Blackpool confirmed that Kay had not been offered a new deal and that he was being released.

On 18 August 2009, Kay joined Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League

The Northern Premier League, is one of the regional English football leagues which sits directly below the Football Conference featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs. Geographically, the league covers all of Northern England, and the northern areas of the Midlands. Originally just one...

 side Burscough

Burscough F.C.

Burscough F.C. is an English football club based in Burscough, Lancashire. The club are members of the Northern Premier League Premier Division and groundshare with Skelmersdale United...

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On 28 November 2009, Kay moved to AFC Fylde who were recently promoted into the Northern Premier League Division One North

Northern Premier League Division One North

Division One North is one of the two second-tier divisions of the Northern Premier League. It is at tier 4 of the National League System, tier 8 of the English football league system...

. He scored his first goal for the club in his full debut in a NPL Presidents Cup win over Warrington Town which sees them into the quarter final.

External links

• Matty Kay profile at blackpoolfc.co.uk