Liam King (born 31 December 1987) is an English

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who plays in central midfield. He is currently a coach at

Gainsborough Trinity Gainsborough Trinity Football Club is a football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Established in 1873, the club became members of the Football League in 1893 and remained members of the Second Division until 1912, making Gainsbo ...

Career

On 1 January 2008 King joined

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population o ...

on a month-long loan, making his first team debut the same day in a 2–1 victory against

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. After several appearances, the loan was extended until April. He was released by

Rotherham United Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers, is a professional football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . The club's colours were initially yellow and black, but changed to red and white around 1 ...

after the 2008–09 season, and subsequently signed for

Matlock Town Matlock Town Football Club is a association football, football club based in Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock, Derbyshire, England. Nicknamed 'the Gladiators', they are currently members of the and play at Causeway Lane. History The club was esta ...

of the

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. In 2013 he moved on to

North Ferriby North Ferriby is a village and civil parish in the Haltemprice area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. History Humber Estuary "The archaeology of the intertidal wetlands of the Humber Estuary is of international importance, and include ...

and built a strong working relationship with manager Billy Heath who ended up making King captain of the team. In his three years at Ferriby, King and his teammates achieved high success by winning the

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in 2015 at Wembley Stadium and also won the

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in the 2015/16 season. In his time at North Ferriby King made 205 appearances and scored 62 goals. After going up with North Ferriby, he followed in the footsteps of his manager, Billy Heath, and joined

FC Halifax town FC Halifax Town is a professional association football club based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They currently compete in and play at the Shay. They replaced Halifax Town A.F.C., which went into administration in the 2007–08 season. ...

along with seven other teammates. King was also made captain again by Heath at Halifax. In November 2017 it was announced that King had left Halifax and joined

for an undisclosed fee. On 11 February 2019, he had his contract cancelled by mutual consent, following injury problems. Just three days later, he was appointed as the caretaker manager of the club following manager

Lee Sinnott Lee Sinnott (born 12 July 1965) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently manager of Gainsborough Trinity. As a player, he was a defender for Walsall, Watford, Bradford City, Crystal Palace, Huddersfi ...

's departure. After three wins from his first three Northern Premier League games, he was placed in charge until the end of the season alongside Ross Hannah. Their appointment was made permanent at the end of the season. In October 2019

Curtis Woodhouse Curtis Woodhouse BEM (born 17 April 1980) is an English former professional footballer turned professional boxer and football manager, currently in charge of Marske United. Woodhouse played football as a central midfielder, and competed as a ...

was appointed manager, with King remaining at the club as a coach.

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* 1987 births Living people People from Rainworth Footballers from Nottinghamshire English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Rotherham United F.C. players Altrincham F.C. players Matlock Town F.C. players North Ferriby United A.F.C. players FC Halifax Town players English Football League players National League (English football) players Northern Premier League players English football managers Gainsborough Trinity F.C. managers {{England-footy-defender-1980s-stub