Tom Huddlestone

Tom Huddlestone

Huddlestone playing for Hull City in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Andrew Huddlestone[1]
Date of birth	(1986-12-28) 28 December 1986 (age 37)[2]
Place of birth	Nottingham, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[3]
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder[4]
Team information
Current team	Wigan Athletic (first team coach)
Youth career
	Nottingham Forest
0000–2002	Derby County
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2005	Derby County	88	(0)
2005–2013	Tottenham Hotspur	144	(8)
2005–2006	→ Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)	13	(1)
2013–2017	Hull City	135	(6)
2017–2020	Derby County	79	(3)
2021–2022	Hull City	11	(0)
2022–2024	Manchester United	0	(0)
Total		470	(18)
International career
2001–2002	England U16	7	(0)
2002–2003	England U17	6	(0)
2004	England U19	3	(0)
2005	England U20	4	(0)
2005–2009	England U21	33	(5)
2009–2012	England	4	(0)
Managerial career
2022–2024	Manchester United Academy (Under-21 coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Andrew Huddlestone (born 28 December 1986) is an English former professional footballer and coach, who is currently the first team coach at Wigan Athletic. He played as a defensive midfielder.

Having progressed through the youth ranks at Nottingham Forest and Derby County, Huddlestone began his professional career in 2003 with the latter club. He quickly broke into the first team, and made 88 league appearances before switching to Tottenham Hotspur in 2005. Having spent some of the 2005–06 season on loan to Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he made 13 league appearances, he began to break into the Tottenham team during the 2006–07 season, and became a regular player for the club. However, he struggled with injury problems during the 2011–12 season, and fell out of favour. He joined Hull City in August 2013, having made 144 league appearances for Tottenham.

In 2013, Huddlestone joined Hull City where he played a role in helping the club reach the 2014 FA Cup Final, scoring a goal in the FA Cup third semi-final victory, as they ended up runners-up in the competition, this cup run ensured Hull would qualify for Europe via the UEFA Europa League for the first time in the clubs history, Huddlestone would spend four years at Hull and would play 161 times, scoring 8 goals. In July 2017, Huddlestone returned to Derby County, but after two failed play-off campaigns to gain promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and 2019, Huddlestone left Derby in July 2020 after rejected a contact offer, in his second spell at Derby, Huddlestone played 90 times, scoring 3 goals. After 13 months out of game, Huddlestone returned to Hull City in August 2021, where he spent a season, before ending his career with a two-year spell at Manchester United where fulfilled a coaching role for Manchester United's Under-21 team, as well as playing for the under-21s.

Huddlestone represented England at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-20 levels before making his under-21 debut in 2005. He was a regular for the under-21 team between 2005 and 2009, and made 33 appearances. He made senior full England debut in 2009, and made three further appearances, his last being in 2012.