Jordan Lussey (born 2 November 1994) is an English professional

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who plays as a

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for

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. He has played for

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

York City York City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. As of the 2022–23 season, the team compete in the National League, at the fifth tier of the English football league sys ...

Southport Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England. Southport lies on the Irish ...

, Telford United,

Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...

Nuneaton Borough Nuneaton Borough Football Club is an English football club that is based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The men's 1st team competes in the , the seventh tier of English football. In 1889, Nuneaton St. Nicholas FC was the first team in Nuneaton t ...

Curzon Ashton Curzon Ashton Football Club is an association football club based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. Founded in 1963 and nicknamed "The Nash", the club is affiliated to the Manchester Football Association and currently compete ...

and

AFC Fylde AFC Fylde is a professional football club based in Wesham in the Borough of Fylde, Lancashire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Mill Farm. Originally known as Kirkham & Wesham following a merger of Kirkham Town and Wes ...

Club career

Liverpool

Lussey was born in

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, Lancashire. He played for Ormskirk Cross Hall before joining

, the club he grew up supporting, in 2002. He progressed through the club's

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, before captaining the under-18 team and establishing himself in the under-21s.

Bolton Wanderers

On 26 March 2015, Lussey joined

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club

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for the remainder of the 2014–15 season. He did not make any appearances in the first team, but did impress for their development squad. Lussey signed a permanent one-year contract with Bolton on 12 July 2015, which would see him initially play with the under-21 and development teams. On 26 November 2015, Lussey joined

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club

on a one-month loan. He made his debut two days later as a right-back in a 5–1 home defeat to

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, and played 68 minutes before being

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for George Swan. At the end of 2015–16, Bolton confirmed that he would be leaving when his contract expired at the end of June 2016.

Southport

In September 2016, Lussey signed for

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club

A.F.C. Telford United

He signed for

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club

A.F.C. Telford United AFC Telford United is a football club based in Telford, Shropshire, England. The club was formed in 2004 after the original Telford United, founded in 1872, folded due to financial problems. Currently members of the National League North, the ...

on 8 August 2017. He left the club at the end of 2017–18.

Chorley

In September 2018 he joined

. At the end of this spell with the club he went to

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on dual registration terms where he played three league games in December 2018. He left his parent and dual registration clubs at the end of December 2018.

Nuneaton Borough

He then joined

at the end of December 2018 making his debut for the club on New Year's Day 2019. After three league appearances he left the club to go and speak to clubs in Asia. In March 2019 he rejoined Nuneaton.

Marine

In November 2019 he returned to Merseyside, signing for

. He left the club at the end of the season, seeking to play at a higher level.

AFC Fylde

He then signed for

Curzon Ashton

He signed for

in 2021.

Return to Marine

Lussey returned to Marine in August 2022. He was part of the Marine side which won the Liverpool Senior Cup in 2023, scoring a penalty in the shootout.

International career

Lussey made his debut for the England national under-18 team on 16 November 2011 as a half-time substitute for Max Clayton in a 1–1 away draw with

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. His second and last

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came on 7 March 2012 after starting a 3–0 home win over

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, in which he was substituted for Jack Dunn on 61 minutes.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lussey, Jordan 1994 births Living people Footballers from Ormskirk English men's footballers England men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Liverpool F.C. players Bolton Wanderers F.C. players York City F.C. players Southport F.C. players AFC Telford United players English Football League players National League (English football) players Chorley F.C. players Nuneaton Borough F.C. players Witton Albion F.C. players Marine A.F.C. players AFC Fylde players Curzon Ashton F.C. players