Full name Michael Jolley Name Michael Jolley Current team Burnley FC | Place of birth Sheffield, UK Date of birth 30 March 1977 | |
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Michael Jolley (born 30 March 1977) is an English professional football coach, who is head coach at AFC Eskilstuna.
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- Head Coach AFC Eskilstuna Allsvenskan
- Burnley FC
- FA Elite Coaches Award UEFA Pro Licence
- Coaching career
- References
He joined the Allsvenskan club on 13 June 2017 from Burnley FC where he had spent three years in the role of U23 head coach. Jolley is a Cambridge University graduate with an MSc in economics from Downing College. He started coaching in 2004. He has previously held coaching positions at five professional clubs, including Burnley, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace FC.
From 1999 to 2005, Jolley was a fixed-income trader, first in London, then in New York; he worked near the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Jolley made a career switch into football coaching when he joined Crystal Palace in 2004.
Born in Sheffield, Jolley was a youth player with Barnsley FC between 1989 and 1993. Between 1995 and 1998 Jolley attended Downing College at Cambridge University where he won three 'Blues' for representing Cambridge against Oxford University in the Varsity Football match. During his time at Cambridge Jolley gained a bachelor's degree in economics, which was subsequently converted to a master's degree.
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Head Coach | AFC Eskilstuna | Allsvenskan
On 13 June 2017 he was presented as new manager for AFC Eskilstuna in the Swedish first tier, Allsvenskan.
Burnley FC
On 7 July 2014 Jolley was appointed Senior Professional Development Coach of the Burnley FC Under-23 Team. Burnley would spend two of the next three seasons in the Premier League. 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.
FA Elite Coaches Award & UEFA Pro Licence
In 2011 Jolley was selected as one of 16 coaches to participate in the inaugural FA Elite Coaches Award. In 2012 Jolley was appointed as First Team Coach at Lincoln City FC in the Blue Square Premier. In November 2012, he left to join Crewe Alexandra FC as an Academy Coach. In July 2013 Michael Jolley completed the FA Elite Coaches Award, one of 16 coaches globally to hold the award. In 2016, Jolley gained his UEFA Pro Licence, from the English Football Association.
Coaching career
Jolley's first coaching position was at Crystal Palace Academy, commencing in 2004. Jolley spent three years at Palace, during which time the academy produced players such as Victor Moses and John Bostock. In 2007 Jolley left to take up a position with the academy of Nottingham Forest FC. After just over one year with Forest, Jolley was appointed high-performance football coach at the University of Stirling. Jolley coached and recruited players to the University's football scholarship program. Stirling also won the Queen's Park Shield in Jolley's first season. Jolley also joined Falkirk FC as an academy coach. In 2008/09 Jolley was also appointed head coach of the Scotland Universities Team. Jolley gained an MSc Degree in sports coaching during his time at the University Of Stirling.
Jolley left his roles at Stirling & Falkirk in 2009. He was convicted of unknowingly having sex with a 15-year-old girl after a night out at a Stirling nightclub with friends. It was established in court that the girl had lied to him about her age, telling him that she was 19 years old, and he was subsequently cleared by the UK Government and both the English Football Association and the Scottish Football Association to continue all football coaching activity in late 2009.