Paul Wormley

Paul Wormley

Wormley in 1988 with Floreat Athena
Personal information
Date of birth	(1961-09-16) 16 September 1961
Place of birth	Leeds, England
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1979	Yorkshire Amateur
1979–1980	Barnsley	3	(1)
1980–1981	Huddersfield Town	0	(0)
1981	Launceston Juventus	17	(16)
1982	Townsville Kern United	22	(17)
1983	West Adelaide SC	22	(9)
1984–1989	Floreat Athena	253	(168)
1989–1990	Eastern Sports Club	16	(9)
1990	Perth SC	14	(11)
1991	Fremantle City	21	(12)
1992–1996	Inglewood United	92	(53)
Managerial career
1996–1998	Inglewood United
1998	Western Knights
1999–2002	Western Australia State
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paul Wormley (born 16 September 1961) is an English former professional footballer.

Career

Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Wormley was a regular player with the Leeds United youth team, and played for Leeds City Boys from under 11 through to under 15. He also represented Yorkshire School Boys and was an England Schoolboy international.

After playing as a young teenager in open age non-league football for Yorkshire Amateur, he signed professionally for Barnsley, where he made his English league debut. He made his league debut against Bury in 1979 at the age of 17. He then signed for Huddersfield Town, but due to a serious knee injury he never made a first team appearance for the club in the league, though did play regularly for the reserve team.

In 1981 Wormley was contracted to play out in Australia on a sporting visa, joining Launceston Juventus in Tasmania, before moving with Ken Worden to Townsville Kern United in 1982. Townsville won both the league championship and Ampol cup that year, the first Queensland club to do so. In 1983 he was signed by West Adelaide SC and played under Alan Vest. When Vest moved to Floreat Athena in 1984, he convinced Wormley to join him. He went on to finish as the club's leading scorer in five of the next seven seasons, winning many trophies including the State league and domestic cup three consecutive seasons.

Wormley represented the Western Australian State team for 7 seasons from 1984 through to 1990. Thus being one of the longest serving & leading representatives of the WA State team. He represented WA in overseas tours of Asia and against visiting teams such as Nottingham Forest, Millwall and FC Torpedo Moscow.

In 1990 Wormley played for Eastern Sports Club in Hong Kong and also represented Hong Kong against Aston Villa. Wormley later returned to Australia and played for Perth SC, Fremantle City and Inglewood United, becoming player/coach for the latter. Wormley as player coach of Inglewood United, led Inglewood United to their first and only Western Australia State League Championship in 1996, thus becoming the first debutant state league coach to do so. Wormley was awarded the "WA State Soccer Coach" of the year award for his achievements. Wormley was later appointed the Western Australian State Coach in 1999, during a period in which they played against the former European Cup Winners Red Star Belgrade and the Malaysian U23 National side. Wormley retired from football in 2002 to commence his own Company.