Max Wright (born 6 April 1998) is an English professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a winger for

National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ...

side

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. ...

. He came through the youth ranks at

Grimsby Town Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that in the 2022–23 season will compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system, following the victory in ...

before earning a professional contract in 2015. He has also spent time on loan with Sutton Coldfield Town,

Scarborough Athletic Scarborough Athletic Football Club is an association football club based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The club was formed on 25 June 2007 as a phoenix club following the winding up of Scarborough Football Club. After spending the ...

and

Boston United Boston United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The club participates in the National League North, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club is known ...

. He joined

Harrogate Town Harrogate Town A.F.C. is a professional association football club in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club is nicknamed the Sulphurites, due to the ...

in 2022 but injury limited him to only 3 appearances.

Career

Grimsby Town

Wright joined

Northern Premier League The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...

Premier Division club Sutton Coldfield Town on an initial one-month

loan In finance, a loan is the lending of money by one or more individuals, organizations, or other entities to other individuals, organizations, etc. The recipient (i.e., the borrower) incurs a debt and is usually liable to pay interest on that d ...

on 12 January 2017. In February 2017, Wright extended his loan at Sutton Coldfield Town until the end of the season. He signed a new one-year contract in August 2017 with

. Wright joined

on 24 August 2017 on loan. He signed a new two-year contract with Grimsby on 5 June 2018. Wright made his professional debut on 14 August 2018 coming on as a substitute in the 83rd minute against

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

in the

EFL Cup The EFL Cup (referred to historically, and colloquially, as the League Cup), currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout competition and major trophy in men's domestic football in England. Organised by the ...

. On 6 September 2018, Wright joined

on an initial one-month loan. The deal was extended with one further month, so it would end on 6 November 2018. Wright was recalled from his loan spell by Grimsby Town with immediate effect on 26 April 2019, making his EFL debut on 29 April as a second-half substitute against Notts County. Grimsby secured promotion with victory in the play-off final, though Wright was not in the matchday squad at

London Stadium London Stadium (formerly and also known as Olympic Stadium and the Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park) is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea ...

. On 11 June 2022, the club announced their retained list ahead of the 2022–23 season and confirmed that Wright would be among those released when his contract expires on 30 June.

Harrogate Town

On 20 July 2022, Wright signed for fellow

EFL League Two The English Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship purposes, and known as the Football League Two from 2004 until 2016) is the third and lowest division of the English Football Lea ...

side

. A week after signing with Harrogate, Wright injured his ankle and was expected to be side-lined for a significant period. He would eventually make his debut on 26 December 2022, coming on as a late substitute in a 3-2 victory against his former team Grimsby Town. On 29 January 2023, he joined

on loan. Wright came off the bench in the 90th minute during Town's

FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after the English Football Association and competed for primarily by semi-professional teams. The compet ...

final victory over

Gateshead Gateshead () is a large town in northern England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle to which it is joined by seven bridges. The town contains the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Millennium Bridge, Sage ...

Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 200 ...

. It was announced that Harrogate would not be renewing his contract and he would leave the club at the end of the 2022–23 season.

FC Halifax Town

Wright joined

on 30 June 2023 on a permanent deal, following his loan spell at the end of the previous season.

Career statistics

Honours

Grimsby Town *

play-offs:

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

FC Halifax Town *

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

References

External links

Max Wright profile
at the Grimsby Town F.C. website {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Max 1998 births Living people Footballers from Grimsby English men's footballers Men's association football wingers Grimsby Town F.C. players Sutton Coldfield Town F.C. players Scarborough Athletic F.C. players Boston United F.C. players Harrogate Town A.F.C. players FC Halifax Town players English Football League players Northern Premier League players National League (English football) players