Jason Beckford
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Beckford in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jason Neil Beckford | ||
| Date of birth | 14 February 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Moss Side, Manchester, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1987 | Manchester City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1991 | Manchester City | 20 | (1) |
| 1991 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1991 | → Port Vale (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 1992–1994 | Birmingham City | 7 | (2) |
| 1994 | → Bury (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1994 | Stoke City | 4 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Millwall | 9 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | Northampton Town | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 53 | (4) | |
| International career | |||
| 1985–1986 | England U16 | 5 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2003–2007 | Mossley | ||
| 2022–2023 | Simcoe County Rovers | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jason Neil Beckford (born 14 February 1970) is an English professional football manager and former player. His elder brother Darren also played professional football.
Beckford began his playing career as a forward with Manchester City, where he played 12 times in the 1988–89 Second Division promotion winning campaign. He then had brief loan spells at Blackburn Rovers and Port Vale, before signing with Birmingham City for a £150,000 fee in the 1991–92 Third Division promotion-winning season. He was loaned out to Bury, before joining Stoke City in 1994. He ended the 1994–95 season at Millwall before announcing his retirement after spending the 1995–96 season with Northampton Town.
Beckford coached in the Academy at Bolton Wanderers, before being appointed assistant manager of Mossley in June 2002. He was appointed as manager 13 months later and went on to lead the club to promotions out of the North West Counties League in 2003–04 and the Northern Premier League Division One in 2005–06. He left the club at the end of the 2006–07 season and went on to coach at Bolton and Oldham Athletic. He emigrated to Canada in 2012 and was appointed as head coach of Simcoe County Rovers in March 2022. He led Rovers to the League1 Ontario title in 2023.