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 Lucketti withSalford City at Wembley in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Christopher James Lucketti | ||
| Date of birth | (1971-09-28)28 September 1971 (age 54) | ||
| Place of birth | Littleborough, England | ||
| Position | Central defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Bradford City (Assistant manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Rochdale | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1990 | Rochdale | 1 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Stockport County | 0 | (0) |
| 1991–1993 | Halifax Town | 86 | (3) |
| 1993–1999 | Bury | 235 | (8) |
| 1999–2001 | Huddersfield Town | 68 | (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 | 613 | (23) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015 | Fleetwood Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Bury | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Christopher James Lucketti (born 28 September 1971) is an Englishfootball manager and former professional player, who is assistant manager ofBradford City.
He played as acentral defender. In a playing career of over 600 games, Lucketti began his career at home town clubRochdale in 1989 before moving toHalifax Town,Bury - for whom he made over 250 appearances -Preston North End,Huddersfield Town andSheffield United.
After his playing career ended, Lucketti moved into coaching and management with roles including assistant manager atScunthorpe United,Salford City,Motherwell andMilton Keynes Dons, working alongsideGraham Alexander, caretaker manager ofFleetwood Town and manager atBury.
Born inLittleborough, Lancashire, Lucketti started his professional career withHalifax Town where he made 78Football League appearances before their relegation to theFootball Conference in the1992–93 season.[1] He made a further eight league appearances the following campaign,[2][3] before joiningBury in October 1993.[1] He made a total of 235 league appearances for the Shakers, winning back-to-back promotions in the1995–96 and1996–97 seasons.
In 1999, he joinedHuddersfield Town and made 76 appearances for the Terriers, scoring twice, againstScunthorpe United in the League Cup[4] andCrystal Palace in the league.[5]
Lucketti moved toPreston North End in a £750,000 deal from Huddersfield at the start of the2001–02 season. He played over 200 times for the Deepdale club. In the2004–05 season, he formed formidable partnerships with bothClaude Davis andYoul Mawene in the Preston defence, helping his team to theplay-off final atMillennium Stadium in Cardiff.
In March 2006, Lucketti joinedSheffield United for the remainder of the2005–06 season,[6] 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 withLeeds United on 18 April 2006.[7]
On 13 January 2007, he made his Premiership debut at the age of 35 againstPortsmouth[8] 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 toHull City, he signed a new one-year contract.[9] Despite being re-signed by newly appointed managerBryan 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.[10]
On 27 March 2008, he signed on loan until the end of the season forSouthampton,[11] 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,[12] but Lucketti opted to declare himself unavailable for the match to avoid a conflict of interests.
On 4 July 2008, Lucketti signed a two-year deal atFootball 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.[13] The following day, he was appointedclub captain of the Terriers. He made his second Town debut in the 1–1 draw againstStockport County at theGalpharm Stadium on 9 August 2008. On 25 October, he was sent off in a league match againstPeterborough 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 atEdgeley Park.
After being left out ofLee Clark's squad for the whole of the2009—10 season, he left the club on 17 May 2010.
Lucketti moved into coaching and management with youth roles atPreston North End then as assistant manager working alongsideGraham Alexander atFleetwood Town. After Alexander's dismissal. Lucketti was asked to stay on as caretaker manager, becoming assistant manager again on the appointment of Steven Pressley in October 2015.[14]
In June 2016, Lucketti moved to work with Alexander again atScunthorpe United[15] with the team finishing third inLeague One in 2016-17.
On 22 November 2017, Lucketti was approached to become manager atBury replacingLee Clark.[16] When Lucketti took over, Bury were in the relegation zone and suffering from a number of injuries[17] His contract, along with that of assistant Joe Parkinson, was terminated by the club on 15 January 2018[18]
After working withGraham Alexander as assistant manager at both Fleetwood and Scunthorpe, Lucketti was appointed his assistant manager for a third time atSalford City in May 2018[19] During their time at Salford, Alexander and Lucketti reached the EFL Trophy final and achieved back to back promotions before their departure in the early part of the 2020-21 season.[20]
On 8 January 2021, Lucketti was announced as assistant manager ofMotherwell alongside Graham Alexander with whom he was worked at a number of clubs.[21]
On 27 May 2023, Lucketti once again linked up with Alexander as his new assistant head coach atMilton Keynes Dons.[22]
On 6 November 2023, Alexander and Lucketti were announced as the new manager and assistant manager atBradford City.[23]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Fleetwood Town (caretaker) | 30 September 2015 | 6 October 2015 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 050.0 |
| Bury | 21 November 2017 | 15 January 2018 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 010.0 |
| Total | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 016.7 | ||
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