Iori Jenkins

Iori Jenkins
Personal information
Full name	Iorweth Clifford Jenkins
Date of birth	11 December 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth	Neath, Wales
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team
1978–1979	Chelsea
1979–1981	Brentford
1981–1984	Kettering Town
	Desborough Town
International career
	Wales Schoolboys
Managerial career
	Rushden Town
	Wellingborough Town
	Stewarts & Lloyds Corby
	Northamptonshire FA Youth
	Rothwell Town (reserves)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Iorweth Clifford Jenkins (born 11 December 1959) is a Welsh retired professional footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Brentford. He later dropped into non-League football and held managerial and coaching roles at a number of clubs and associations in Northamptonshire.

Club career

A defender, Jenkins began his career in the youth system at Second Division club Chelsea and signed his first professional contract in 1978.^[2] He failed to make a senior appearance at Stamford Bridge and departed to join Third Division club Brentford in November 1979.^[1] Despite being signed by Bill Dodgin Jr., he failed to break into the team until the appointment of Fred Callaghan in April 1980.^[1] Jenkins made 17 appearances and scored one goal before departing Griffin Park in January 1981.^[1] He dropped into non-League football and joined Alliance Premier League club Kettering Town.^[1]

Jenkins represented Wales at schoolboy level.^[1]

Jenkins held managerial roles at Northamptonshire non-League clubs Rushden Town, Wellingborough Town and Stewarts & Lloyds Corby.^[3] During the 2003–04 season, he managed the Northamptonshire FA representative youth team,^[3] before being appointed assistant manager at United Counties League First Division club Irchester United in June 2004.^[4] He quickly moved on to join Rothwell Town as reserve team manager the following month.^[5]

When he quit professional football in January 1981, Jenkins joined the Police.^[1] Jenkins' son Callum became a non-League footballer.^[6]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Brentford	1979–80^[7]	Third Division	1	0	—		—		1	0
Brentford	1980–81^[7]	Third Division	14	1	0	0	2	0	16	1
Career total			15	1	0	0	2	0	17	1

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006. Yore Publications. p. 88. ISBN 978-0955294914.
^ Croxford, Mark; Lane, David; Waterman, Greville (2011). The Big Brentford Book of the Seventies. Sunbury, Middlesex: Legends Publishing. p. 293. ISBN 978-1906796709.
^ ^a ^b "UCL04". Football.Mitoo. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
^ "Poppies go for Brown". northantstelegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^ "Bones kitted out for new campaign". northantstelegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2015.^{[dead link‍]}
^ "Desborough Town FC Player Information 2003–04". www.artarnfc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 395–396. ISBN 0951526200.

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