Gary Elphick (born 17 October 1985) is an English former

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who is assistant manager of

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Career

Elphick started his career at

Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, commonly referred to as Brighton, is a professional football club based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Their home gr ...

, 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

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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

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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, 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

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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 association football club based in Tonbridge, Kent, England. The team competes in the National League South, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club was founded as Tonb ...

. After a spell at

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, Elphick joined

Worthing Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Br ...

as joint manager with Jon Meeney in June 2015, arriving as the replacement for

Adam Hinshelwood Adam Hinshelwood (born 8 January 1984) is an English football manager and former player who manages National League club York City. Playing career Brighton & Hove Albion Hinshelwood was born in Oxford and joined Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., ...

. On 6 March 2019, Elphick joined Hastings United and become first team manager in November 2021. Having guided the team to the Isthmian League South East Division title, followed by an eighth placed position in the Isthmian Premier, Elphick resigned at the end of the 2022–23 season.

Coaching career

In June 2023, Elphick returned to Worthing as a coach. On 27 February 2024, Elphick was appointed assistant manager of

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club

, following Hinshelwood from Worthing.

Family

His younger brother,

Tommy Elphick Tommy Elphick (born 7 September 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back and currently an assistant manager at Premier League club AFC Bournemouth. Elphick started at the Brighton & Hove Albion academy and ...

, was also a professional footballer.

References

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

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elphick, Gary 1985 births Living people English men's footballers Footballers from Brighton Men's association football defenders Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Aldershot Town F.C. players St Albans City F.C. players Havant & Waterlooville F.C. players Eastbourne Borough F.C. players Eastleigh F.C. players Tonbridge Angels F.C. players Lewes F.C. players Worthing F.C. players Hastings United F.C. players Burgess Hill Town F.C. players National League (English football) players Isthmian League players English football managers Worthing F.C. managers Hastings United F.C. managers Isthmian League managers York City F.C. non-playing staff English Football League players 21st-century English sportsmen