 Jevons whilst withBury in 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Phillip Jevons[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1979-08-01)1 August 1979 (age 46)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1996 | Everton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–2001 | Everton | 8 | (0) |
| 2001–2004 | Grimsby Town | 63 | (18) |
| 2002–2003 | →Hull City (loan) | 24 | (3) |
| 2004–2006 | Yeovil Town | 84 | (42) |
| 2006–2008 | Bristol City | 43 | (11) |
| 2007–2008 | →Huddersfield Town (loan) | 8 | (2) |
| 2008–2010 | Huddersfield Town | 36 | (7) |
| 2009 | →Bury (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| 2009–2010 | →Morecambe (loan) | 40 | (18) |
| 2010–2012 | Morecambe | 65 | (12) |
| 2012–2013 | Hyde | 35 | (15) |
| 2013–2014 | Stockport County | 39 | (19) |
| Total | 452 | (149) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Phillip Jevons (born 1 August 1979) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is interim coach atWomen's Super League clubEverton.
As a player, he was aforward who played between 1996 and 2014 forEverton,Grimsby Town,Hull City,Yeovil Town,Bristol City,Huddersfield Town,Bury,Morecambe,Hyde andStockport County. Jevons came through the youth academy atPremier League sideEverton and was promoted to the club's first team squad in 1996. He made only eight league appearances before being sold toGrimsby Town in 2001. It was whilst a Grimsby player that he is notably remembered for scoring a last minute 30-yard extra time winning goal for The Mariners against his home town clubLiverpool in the third round of theLeague Cup in 2001 which gave The Mariners a 2–1 victory atAnfield, having initially being 1–0 down. He went on to joinHull City on loan before returning to Grimsby for the 2003–04 campaign.
The following season he joinedYeovil Town where he hit 42 goals in 84 appearances in a two-year spell before signing forBristol City. In 2008, he joinedHuddersfield Town permanently following a short loan spell and again in 2009 was loaned out again toBury andMorecambe. In 2010, he signed withMorecambe on a permanent basis notching up 12 goals in 65 appearances in his two-year stay. In 2012 following his release from the club he took his first step intonon-League football by signing with newly promotedConference National sideHyde. Jevons netted 15 goals in 35 appearances which aided Hyde's survival in the Conference but on 21 May 2013 he signed forStockport County who had suffered relegation at the expense of Hyde. In 2014, he announced his retirement to focus on his coaching career. He played his last professional match for Stockport County in a 3–1 win overHarrogate Town in which he scored two goals.
Born inLiverpool,Merseyside,[3] Jevons is a product of theEverton youth academy.[3] He became one of the better young players in their reserve side, scoring 37 goals in 90 youth team games and winning anFA Premier Reserve League winners medal in 2001.[3] Despite his reputation for frequently scoring in the youth and reserve sides, he failed to break through into the first-team squad on a regular basis. But, he made his first team debut on 10 March 1999 coming on as a 38th-minute substitute forNick Barmby in a 2–1Premier League victory overBlackburn Rovers atEwood Park.[4] He was handed his first start for the club on 22 September 1999 in a 1–0 home defeat in theLeague Cup byOxford United, however he was replaced in the 46th minute byFrancis Jeffers.[5] His final appearance came on 5 May 2001 when he featured in a 2–1 defeat away atChelsea.[6] Jevons was transfer listed at the end of the 2000–01 season.[3]
In July 2001, he was sold toGrimsby Town for£250,000.[7] Grimsby were playing in theFootball League First Division, and Jevons was one of the first signings of the new campaign for managerLennie Lawrence.[7] He became an instant hit atBlundell Park and helped fire Grimsby to the top of the league within the first five games of the season, notably his partnership with young strikerJonathan Rowan had shown early promise.[7] On 9 October 2001, he scored a long-range goal in extra time of a League Cup fixture againstLiverpool to send Grimsby through to the next round knocking Liverpool out.[8] Jevons finished the 2001–02 season having played 37 games scoring eight goals in all competitions.[7] After three substitute appearances for Grimsby in the 2002–03 season, Jevons was placed on the transfer list due to financial reasons,[7] but was later removed and was sent out on a season-long loan toHumber derby rivalsHull City.[7] He scored three goals in 26 games for Hull,[9] before returning to the Mariners in the summer of 2003 following Grimsby's relegation from the second tier of English football.[7] Following the sacking ofPaul Groves and the appointment ofNicky Law, Jevons struck up a good partnership withIsaiah Rankin, he scored four goals in a 6–1 victory overBarnsley on 28 February 2004.[10] Despite this the club suffered a second successive relegation, Jevons finished that season with twelve goals and left the club at the end of the season. In total Jevons scored 24 times as a Grimsby Town player.[7]
On 18 June 2004, he joinedYeovil Town on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract.[11] He made his debut on the opening day of the 2004–05 season in a 3–1 defeat toBury.[12] He scored his first goal for the club on 10 August 2004, as part of a 1–1 draw withDarlington.[13] He then scored in each of the next two games againstBoston United andNotts County respectively.[14][15] On 18 September 2004, he scored his first hat-trick for the club in a 6–1 win overOxford United.[16] He went on to score another two hat-trick's that season againstChester City andBristol Rovers respectively.[17][18] He finished the 2004–05 season with a total of 29 goals in all competitions.[19] Jevons scored his first goal of the 2005–06 season on 10 September 2005 in a 2–1 win overWalsall.[20] Before the new year he went on to score another seven goals including a brace in a 3–0 win overNottingham Forest on 22 October 2005.[21] After New Year, he scored another eight goals, including two brace's againstHartlepool United andHuddersfield Town.[22][23] He finished the 2005–06 season with sixteen goals in all competitions.[24]
On 22 May 2006, Jevons joinedBristol City on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract following Gary Johnson toAshton Gate.[25] He scored his first goal as a Bristol City player on 12 August 2006 in a 2–1 defeat toHuddersfield Town.[26] On 3 December 2006 he scored a hat-trick in theFA Cup as part of a 4–3 win overGillingham.[27] He went on to score a total of seventeen goals in the 2006–07 season, helping his side to promotion to theFootball League Championship.[28] He started his 2007–08 campaign off well scoring a brace in a 3–0 win overBrentford in theLeague Cup.[29] But after going three more games without a goal, he was sent out on a month's loan deal toHuddersfield Town on 22 November 2007.[30]
He made his debut on 24 November 2007, as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat toLeyton Orient at theGalpharm Stadium.[31] On 1 December 2007, he scored his first two goals for the club in a 3–0 against his former team,Grimsby Town to send Huddersfield through to the third round of theFA Cup.[32] He scored his first league goal for the club in a 2–1 win overBristol Rovers.[33] On 24 December 2007, Jevons's loan at Huddersfield was extended until 19 January 2008.[34] However, on 10 January Jevons was signed for £100,000, a fee that could double to £200,000 depending on appearances and whether Huddersfield could gain promotion. Jevons signed a contract that would take him to the summer of 2010.[35] He scored another five goals in the 2007–08 season, taking his season total to eleven goals for bothBristol City and Huddersfield.[36] After going sixteen games without a goal in the first half of the 2008–09 season, he scored his first goal of the campaign on 10 January 2009 in a 1–1 draw withNorthampton Town.[37] He scored his second goal in three games as his side lost 4–2 toLeicester City.[38]
On 21 March 2009, Jevons joined up withFootball League Two sideBury on a month's loan deal.[39] On 24 March, he made his debut in a 1–1 draw withRotherham.[40] After another two games without a goal, he scored his first for the club in a 2–1 win overShrewsbury on 9 April 2009.[41] He netted just one more time forBury in a 1–0 win overAccrington Stanley.[42]
On 22 July 2009, Jevons signed forMorecambe on a season-long loan deal, along with teammateIan Craney.[43][44] He scored his first goal for Morecambe in a 5–2 defeat toBurton Albion on 15 August 2009.[45] He scored brace's againstRochdale and former clubBury respectively.[46][47] He scored a total of eighteen goals in his season long loan spell at the club.[48]
After being released fromHuddersfield Town, he signed forMorecambe on a permanent deal on 4 July 2010.[49] He scored his first goal since joining Morecambe permanently on 24 August 2010 in a 3–1Football League Cup defeat toBurnley.[50] On 2 November 2010, he scored a hat-trick in a 5–0 victory overStockport County.[51] He finished the 2010–11 season having scored nine goals in 41 appearances in all competitions.[52] He scored his first goal of the 2011–12 season on 13 August, in a 3–0 win overHereford United.[53] Jevons only scored another four goals all season.[54] He was released at the end of the season, managerJim Bentley stated that Jevons did not fit into his future plans.[55]
On 16 April he joinedWrexham on trial,[56] but on 12 June 2012 Jevons signed for newly promotedConference National sideHyde.[57] He scored his first goals for the club, scoring a hat-trick in a 5–2 win overHereford United in September 2012.[58] He added a fourth of the campaign in his next match—a 3–2 defeat toLincoln City.[59] He scored his fifth goal in three matches as his side drew 2–2 withNuneaton Town.[60] After three games without a goal, he scored a brace in the win overTamworth in October 2012.[61] In December 2012, he scored another four goals in a 7–0 win overWoking, taking his Hyde goal tally to thirteen in nineteen matches.[62] Jevons left Hyde at the end of the season after netting 15 goals in 35 games.
On 21 May 2013 Jevons signed for newly relegatedConference North sideStockport County.[63] He made his debut for the hatters in a 4–1 defeat toBoston United on the opening day of the 2013–14 season.[64] He scored his first Stockport goals in a 3–1 home win overGainsborough Trinity on 7 September 2013.[65] Jevons announced his retirement from the game and would play his last ever professional game for the Hatters and netted two goals in a 3–1 win overHarrogate Town.[66]
Jevons began working on his FA Coaching badges and has since returned toEverton to help coach the club's under-9s side as well as continuing to play as a professional.[67] In September 2012 he also became Head coach of the worldwide scouting football project "The Next Football Superstar".[68] He later progressed to work with the Everton Under 18's team.
On 16 September 2021, Jevons signed a contract as a first team and academy coach atSunderland.[69]
Following the dismissal of managerLee Johnson, Jevons was temporarily appointed interim assistant manager in order to assistMike Dodds.[70] Jevons achieved promotion from League one to the Championship. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Jevons was released from his position at Sunderland by Johnson's replacementAlex Neil.[71]
On 16 December 2022, Jevons joinedRochdale as a first team coach.[72]
On 12 February 2026, Everton announced thatPhil Jevons would join the backroom staff as an interim coach until the end of the season.[73]
Jevons attended both primary and secondary school in theMerseyside town ofGateacre.
Pete Green wrote "The Ballad of Phil Jevons" which appears on the B side of their first seven-inch singleEverything I Do Is Gonna Be Sparkly (Atomic Beat Records, 2007 – ABR001).[74] According to the songwriter: "To start with I just wrote the song to amuse my fellow Grimsby-supporting mates, and never intended it for public performance because I didn't think it'd mean anything to anyone. But then I thought: hmm, well, the enigmatic, gifted-but-lazy footballer is sort of an everyman figure really."[75]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Everton | 1998–99[76] | Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |
| 1999–2000[77] | Premier League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2000–01[78] | Premier League | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| Total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Grimsby Town | 2001–02[79] | First Division | 31 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | — | 37 | 8 | |
| 2002–03[80] | First Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2003–04[81] | Second Division | 29 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 13 | |
| Total | 63 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 21 | ||
| Hull City (loan) | 2002–03[80] | Third Division | 24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3 |
| Yeovil Town | 2004–05[82] | League Two | 46 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 29 |
| 2005–06[83] | League One | 38 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 43 | 16 | |
| Total | 84 | 42 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 45 | ||
| Bristol City | 2006–07[84] | League One | 41 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4[a] | 2 | 51 | 17 |
| 2007–08[85] | Championship | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
| Total | 43 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 55 | 19 | ||
| Huddersfield Town | 2007–08[85][b] | League One | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | |||
| 2008–09[86] | League One | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | |
| Total | 44 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 11 | ||
| Bury (loan) | 2008–09[86] | League Two | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| Morecambe (loan) | 2009–10[87] | League Two | 40 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 44 | 19 |
| Morecambe | 2010–11[88] | League Two | 38 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 9 |
| 2011–12[89] | League Two | 27 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1[a] | 1 | 30 | 5 | |
| Total | 105 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 115 | 33 | ||
| Hyde | 2012–13[90] | Conference Premier | 35 | 15 | 2 | 1 | — | 2[d] | 0 | 39 | 16 | |
| Stockport County | 2013–14 | Conference North | 39 | 19 | 2 | 0 | — | 2[d] | 2 | 43 | 21 | |
| Career totals | 452 | 149 | 29 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 511 | 171 | ||
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