Gary Elphick (born 17 October 1985) is an English

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who is currently player-manager of Hastings United.

Career

Elphick started his career at Brighton & Hove Albion, where he made two league appearances during two seasons. He had two loan spells whilst at Brighton, joining Eastbourne Borough in September 2004 scoring only one goal in just one game before returning to the Seagulls, he later joined

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side Aldershot Town on loan in January 2006, playing just three games. At the end of the 2005–06 season, he was released by Brighton and signed for newly promoted Football Conference side

St Albans St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...

, the club was relegated at the end of the 2006–07 season, for which he was named as Player of the Year. Whilst playing for

he has played for the

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. He played 16 games for St Albans. In his time with St Albans City he made 84 appearances and scored seven goals. Nominated for the Saints Player of the Season 2006–07, he opted to leave the side in December 2007 to join Havant & Waterlooville where he quickly became a regular in the heart of the defence, playing all but two of the remaining league games of the season and picking up two Player of the Month awards in the process. During the 2007–08 season, Elphick joined

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team

Havant & Waterlooville Havant & Waterlooville Football Club is a professional football club based in Havant, Hampshire, England. The club participates in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football, after relegation from the National League in the 20 ...

, although the player was

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and therefore ineligible to play in the

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third round tie away at

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. In May 2009, he joined

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team Eastbourne Borough. Elphick joined

Eastleigh Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the 2011 census. The town lies on the River Itchen, o ...

on 20 January 2012 for an undisclosed fee. He left the club in October 2012, following squad rearrangement by newly appointed manager Richard Hill. Elphick subsequently joined

Tonbridge Angels Tonbridge Angels Football Club is a professional football club based in Tonbridge, Kent, England. The club was founded as Tonbridge Football Club in 1947 and became known as "The Angels" in 1949 when they started playing at the Angel Ground. S ...

. After a spell at

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, Elphick joined

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...

as joint manager with Jon Meeney in June 2015, arriving as the replacement for Adam Hinshelwood. On 6 March 2019, Elphick joined Hastings United and become first team manager in November 2021.

Family

His younger brother,

Tommy Elphick Tommy Elphick (born 7 September 1987) is an English former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back and currently an assistant coach at former club, AFC Bournemouth. ...

, was also a professional footballer.

References

http://bhtfc.co.uk/first-team/players/

External links

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