Chris Lucketti

Chris Lucketti

Lucketti with Huddersfield Town in 2008
Personal information
Full name Christopher James Lucketti
Date of birth (1971-09-28) 28 September 1971
Place of birth Littleborough, England
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Central defender
Youth career
Rochdale
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1990 Rochdale 1 (0)
1990–1991 Stockport County 0 (0)
1991–1993 Halifax Town 78 (2)
1993–1999 Bury 235 (8)
1999–2001 Huddersfield Town 69 (1)
2001–2006 Preston North End 189 (11)
2006 → Sheffield United (loan) 3 (0)
2006–2008 Sheffield United 14 (0)
2008 → Southampton (loan) 4 (0)
2008–2010 Huddersfield Town 13 (0)
Total 606 (22)
Teams managed
2015 Fleetwood Town (caretaker)
2016 Fleetwood Town (caretaker)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Christopher James "Chris" Lucketti (born 28 September 1971 in Littleborough, Lancashire, England) is an English former footballer, who played as a central defender. He is mainly known for his success at Bury, for whom he made over 200 appearances, and Preston North End.

He has twice acted as caretaker manager of Fleetwood Town.[1]

Playing career

Halifax Town, Bury and Huddersfield Town

Lucketti started with Halifax Town and made 78 appearances for them between 1991 and 1993. In 1993, he moved to Bury; there he made a total of 235 first-team appearances, winning back-to-back promotions in the 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons. In 1999 he joined Huddersfield Town and made 76 appearances for the Terriers, scoring twice, against Scunthorpe United in the League Cup[2] and Crystal Palace in the league.[3]

Preston North End

Lucketti moved to Preston North End in a £750,000 deal from Huddersfield at the start of the 2001–02 season. He played over 200 times for the Deepdale club. In the 2004–05 season, he formed formidable partnerships with both Claude Davis and Youl Mawene in the Preston defence, helping his team to the Play-off final at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Sheffield United

In March 2006, Lucketti joined Sheffield United for the remainder of the 2005–06 season,[4] making three first-team appearances before signing a one-year deal on 1 June 2006 with the Blades with both clubs agreeing to a fee of £250,000.

Lucketti made his first-team debut for the Blades whilst on loan, appearing in the 1–1 home draw with Leeds United on 18 April 2006.[5] He was used as defensive cover and as such only made irregular first team starts, deputising for injured regulars or in League or FA Cup matches.

On 13 January 2007, he made his Premiership debut at the age of 35 against Portsmouth[6] and went on to make a handful of Premiership appearances over the rest of the season. In July 2007, after being linked with a moved to Hull City, he signed a new one-year contract.[7] Despite being re-signed by newly appointed manager Bryan Robson, he featured even less for the Blades under the new boss. He scored what turned out to be his only United goal in the League Cup against MK Dons on 28 August 2007.[8]

On 27 March 2008, he signed on loan until the end of the season for Southampton,[9] making four appearances for the Saints. Under the terms of his loan deal he was eligible to play in the final game of the season between Sheffield United and Southampton, a match which both sides desperately needed to win to try to finish in the play-offs and to avoid relegation respectively,[10] but Lucketti opted to declare himself unavailable for the match to avoid a conflict of interests.

Return to Huddersfield

On 4 July 2008, Lucketti signed a two-year deal at Football League One side Huddersfield Town, seven years after leaving them to join Preston North End. He returned on a free transfer after Sheffield United agreed to cancel the last year of his contract.[11] The following day, he was appointed club captain of the Terriers. He made his second Town debut in the 1–1 draw against Stockport County at the Galpharm Stadium on 9 August 2008. On 25 October, he was sent off in a league match against Peterborough United, where Town lost 4–0. He didn't reappear in the Town first team until 28 February 2009, when he came on as a substitute in the 1–1 draw against Stockport County at Edgeley Park.

After being left out of Lee Clark's squad for the whole of the 2009—10 season, he left the club on 17 May 2010.

Managerial statistics

As of 30 September 2015[12]
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Fleetwood Town (caretaker) 30 September 2015 6 October 2015 00 0 0 0 !—
Total 00 0 0 0 !—

References

  1. ↑ "Management Profiles". Fleetwood Town FC. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "NATIONWIDE LEAGUE DIVISION 1 – SEASON 1999–2000". Huddersfield1.co.uk. 10 August 1999. Retrieved 16 February 2010. Archived 25 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Huddersfield 1–2 Crystal Palace". BBC. 26 August 2000. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "Lucketti off to Sheff Utd on loan". BBC Sport. 8 March 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
  5. ↑ "Sheff Utd 1–1 Leeds". BBC Sport. 18 April 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
  6. ↑ "Sheff Utd 1–1 Portsmouth". BBC Sport. 13 January 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
  7. ↑ "Sheff Utd pair sign new contracts". BBC Sport. 7 July 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
  8. ↑ "MK Dons 2–3 Sheffield Utd (aet)". BBC. 28 August 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  9. ↑ "Defender becomes a Saint". Sheffield United F.C. 28 March 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
  10. ↑ "Lucketti can play in crunch match". BBC Sport. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
  11. ↑ "Lucketti moves to Terriers". Sheffield United F.C. 4 July 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2008.
  12. ↑ "Chris Lucketti". Retrieved 12 August 2015.
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