Gary Finley

Who is Gary Finley?

Gary Finley is an English former professional football central defender and non-league manager. He played in the Football League for Doncaster Rovers and was most recently manager of Witton Albion.

Born in Liverpool, Finley played for Marine, Warrington Town, Vauxhall Motors, Curzon Ashton and Netherfield before joining Doncaster Rovers. He made his debut in the League Cup in August 1997, as Doncaster lost 2–1 away to Nottingham Forest and played 8 times in the league that season Conference. On leaving Doncaster he returned to Netherfield, moving on to Hyde United and to Welsh side Conwy United in 1998 before joining Aberystwyth Town in November 1999.

He became player-manager of Aberystwyth in December 2001, a post he held until resigning less than a fortnight before the 2004–05 season after the clubs most successful period in 20 years where they reached their highest league placing winning the MWC Cup and qualifying for the Inter Toto cup drawing the home leg before finally bowing out to Dinaburg FC from Latvia.