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Josh Dacres-Cogley

Joshua Jacob Dacres-Cogley (born 12 March 1996), sometimes referred to as Josh Cogley, is an English professional footballer who plays as a full back for EFL League One club Bolton Wanderers. He spent ten years with Birmingham City, making 30 first-team appearances, including 23 in the Championship, and had a loan spell with Crawley Town of League Two in the 2019–20 season. Released in 2021, he spent two seasons as a regular with League Two club Tranmere Rovers before moving up a division to join Bolton Wanderers.

Josh Dacres-Cogley
Dacres-Cogley with Birmingham City in 2016
Personal information
Full name Joshua Jacob Dacres-Cogley[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-12) 12 March 1996 (age 28)[2]
Place of birth Coventry, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.74 m)[3]
Position(s) Full back
Team information
Current team
 Bolton Wanderers
Number 12
Youth career
2011–2015 Birmingham City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2021 Birmingham City 23 (0)
2019–2020 → Crawley Town (loan) 16 (0)
2021–2023 Tranmere Rovers 91 (2)
2023– Bolton Wanderers 58 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:49, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Life and career

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Early life and youth football

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Dacres-Cogley was born in Coventry[4] and attended Myton School, Warwick.[5] He joined Birmingham City F.C.'s academy in 2011,[6] and took up a scholarship in July 2012.[7] Interviewed in January 2014, the player assessed his strengths as speed, stamina, getting forward and defending, but felt he needed to improve his passing.[2] When some of his peers signed their first professional contracts, Dacres-Cogley accepted a third-year scholarship.[8] He played in the Birmingham team – a mixture of first-team and reserve players – that won the 2014–15 Birmingham Senior Cup,[9] and signed his first professional contract, of one year, a few days later.[10] According to coach Steve Spooner, Dacres-Cogley had an unsuccessful trial with Birmingham as a winger, but when he returned as a full back, "he did very well so we signed him as a scholar. He has really progressed well and worked on his overall game and his variety of passing. That part of game has really come to fruition. He is a wonderful athlete, he's quick and has the ability to get forward and back quickly, which is a prerequisite for a modern day full-back.[10]

He performed well in pre-season matches, and manager Gary Rowett had hoped to loan him out to a Football League team, but an injury prevented any such move.[11] At the end of the 2015–16 season, Dacres-Cogley was an unused substitute for the Birmingham reserve team that lost the 2016 Birmingham Senior Cup final to National League North champions Solihull Moors,[12] and the club took up their option for another year on his contract.[13] Ahead of the 2015–16 season, he was one of three youngsters – the others were Dom Bernard and Wes Harding – who began their pre-season training with the first team,[14] and he impressed enough to be included in first-team friendlies.[15] Against Port Vale, he provided the crosses that led to both Birmingham's goals,[16] and a couple of days later was given a squad number.[17]

First-team football with Birmingham City

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Dacres-Cogley made his senior debut on 9 August 2016 in the EFL Cup first-round match at home to Oxford United. He played the whole 120 minutes of the match, which Birmingham lost 1–0 after extra time.[18] With Jonathan Spector suspended and Paul Caddis injured,[19] he made his first Football League appearance on 26 November, starting the visit to Brentford at right back. Birmingham won 2–1, and Rowett praised Dacres-Cogley's performance, saying "he played with a lot of composure at times, showed good energy, got through the game in terms of his athleticism and fitness. And when he had to defend and win some headers he certainly did that."[20] Rowett left the club soon afterwards, and his successor, Gianfranco Zola, continued with Dacres-Cogley in the starting eleven for a time, but the team struggled. An experiment with Dacres-Cogley on the right of a back three was not successful, and he made only two brief substitute appearances in the last two months of the campaign.[21][22] In February 2017, he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Birmingham.[23]

The arrival of several defensive players during the 2017 summer transfer window pushed Dacres-Cogley down the pecking order, and his first appearance of the new season did not come until December, starting in central defence in a 1–0 loss to Fulham.[24][25] In what remained of the 2017–18 season and the whole of the next, he made four appearances in cup competitions and played just 12 minutes of Championship football.[22]

Crawley Town (loan)

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After playing in Birmingham's EFL Cup defeat at Portsmouth on 6 August, Dacres-Cogley signed a one-year contract extension and joined League Two club Crawley Town on loan to the end of the 2019–20 season.[26] During his third appearance, he fractured an ankle.[27] He returned to first-team action on 1 January 2020, playing the first 71 minutes of a 1–1 draw away to Colchester United.[28] He returned to action in January 2020, and had made 16 appearances by the time the League Two season was first suspended and then ended early because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[29][30]

Return to Birmingham

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Dacres-Cogley made his first league appearance for Birmingham for nearly two years when he started at right back and was involved in the build-up to the opening goal in the 2–1 win away to Preston North End on 31 October 2020.[31] He was a regular in the matchday squad and made two more starts in the first half of the season, but then dropped out of contention.[22] After Birmingham avoided relegation, new manager Lee Bowyer used the two remaining matches as an opportunity to look at his fringe players, and Dacres-Cogley started in both.[32] In May 2021, Birmingham confirmed that Dacres-Cogley would leave the club when his contract expired at the end of the season.[33]

Tranmere Rovers

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Dacres-Cogley signed a two-year contract with League Two club Tranmere Rovers in June 2021.[34] He made his debut on the opening day of the season, playing the whole of the 1–0 win at home to Walsall.[35]

Bolton Wanderers

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On 21 June 2023, Bolton Wanderers announced that Dacres-Cogley would join them on a two-year deal on 1 July at the end of his Tranmere contract.[36] He scored Bolton's second goal in a 2–1 win over Derby County on 2 September, but the goal was not initially credited to him by some sources. It was eventually awarded to him by the dubious goals panel later in the month.[37]

Career statistics

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As of match played 12 November 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup EFL Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Birmingham City 2016–17[38] Championship 14 0 2 0 1 0 — 17 0
2017–18[25] Championship 3 0 2 0 0 0 — 5 0
2018–19[39] Championship 1 0 0 0 1 0 — 2 0
2019–20[30] Championship 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 0
2020–21[40] Championship 5 0 0 0 0 0 — 5 0
Total 23 0 4 0 3 0 — 30 0
Crawley Town (loan) 2019–20[30] League Two 16 0 0 0 — 0 0 16 0
Tranmere Rovers 2021–22[41] League Two 45 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 48 1
2022–23[42] League Two 46 1 1 0 2 0 3[a] 0 52 1
Total 91 2 3 0 3 0 3 0 100 2
Bolton Wanderers 2023–24[43] League One 44 3 2 0 2 0 6[b] 0 54 3
2024–25[44] League One 14 0 1 0 3 0 3[a] 0 21 0
Total 58 3 3 0 5 0 9 0 75 3
Career total 187 5 10 0 11 0 12 0 220 5
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy
  2. ^ Four appearances in EFL Trophy, two in League One play-offs

Honours

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Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Notification of shirt numbers: Birmingham City" (PDF). English Football League. p. 7. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Blue kid on the block – Josh Cogley". Birmingham City F.C. 8 January 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Josh Dacres-Cogley". Crawley Town F.C. Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Josh Dacres-Cogley". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Coventry Telegraph Schoolboy Cup: Fifth time lucky for Myton School boys". Coventry Telegraph. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Birmingham City FC Player Profiles: Josh Cogley". Birmingham City F.C. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  7. ^ "List of Players Registered as Scholars in Accordance with Rule C.3 Between 01/07/2012 and 31/07/2012". The Football Association. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. ^ Tattum, Colin (21 March 2014). "Blues: Emyr on the mend and Robbo is okay". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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  16. ^ "Report: Port Vale 0 Blues 2". Birmingham City F.C. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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  28. ^ Allman, Tom (1 January 2020). "Report – Colchester United 1–1 Crawley Town". Crawley Town F.C. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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  40. ^ "Games played by Josh Dacres-Cogley in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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  43. ^ "Games played by Josh Dacres-Cogley in 2023/2024". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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