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 Championship club Birmingham City. He spent time on loan at Crawley Town of League Two in the 2019–20 season.

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[2]
Place of birth Coventry, England
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)[3]
Playing position(s) Full back
Club information
Current team
 Birmingham City
Number 25
Youth career
2011–2015 Birmingham City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Birmingham City 18 (0)
2019–2020 → Crawley Town (loan) 16 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:24, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Life and career

Early life and youth football

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.[1] 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.[7] He played in the Birmingham team – a mixture of first-team and reserve players – that won the 2014–15 Birmingham Senior Cup,[8] and signed his first professional contract, of one year, a few days later.[9] 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.[9]

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.[10] 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,[11] and the club took up their option for another year on his contract.[12] Ahead of the 2015–16 season, he was one of three youngsters who began their pre-season training with the first team,[13] and he impressed enough to be included in first-team friendlies.[14] Against Port Vale, he provided the crosses that led to both Birmingham's goals,[15] and a couple of days later was given a squad number.[16]

First-team football with Birmingham City

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.[17] With Jonathan Spector suspended and Paul Caddis injured,[18] 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."[19] 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.[20][21] In February 2017, he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Birmingham.[22]

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.[23][24] 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.[21]

Crawley Town loan

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.[25] During his third appearance, he fractured an ankle.[26] He returned to first-team action on 1 January 2020, playing the first 71 minutes of a 1–1 draw away to Colchester United.[27] 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.[28][29]

Career statistics
As of end of 2019–20 season
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup EFL Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Birmingham City 2016–17[30] Championship1402010—170
2017–18[24] Championship302000—50
2018–19[31] Championship100010—20
2019–20[29] Championship000010—10
Total 1804030—250
Crawley Town (loan) 2019–20[29] League Two16000—00160
Career total 3404030—410
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    2. "Blue kid on the block – Josh Cogley". Birmingham City F.C. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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    27. Allman, Tom (1 January 2020). "Report – Colchester United 1–1 Crawley Town". Crawley Town F.C. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
    28. Roan, Dan; Stone, Simon (15 May 2020). "League Two clubs vote to end season, but League One teams fail to decide". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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