{{short description|English footballer and coach}} {{Use British English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Steve Collis | image = Steve Collis.JPG | caption = Collis training with Rochdale in 2015 | fullname = Stephen Philip Collis | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|3|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Harrow, England<ref name="headline">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/skysportsfootbal0000unse_e7t6/ |title=Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2016–2017 |publisher=Headline |year=2016 |isbn=9781472233943 |editor1-last=Rollin |editor1-first=Glenda |edition=47th |location=London |page=504 |editor2-last=Rollin |editor2-first=Jack}}</ref> | height = 6 ft 3 in<ref name="headline" /> | position = Goalkeeper | currentclub = York city (Goalkeeper Coach) | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Watford | years1 = 1999–2000 | clubs1 = Barnet | caps1 = 0 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 2000–2001 | clubs2 = Nottingham Forest | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2001–2006 | clubs3 = Yeovil Town | caps3 = 47 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2002 | clubs4 = → Aldershot Town (loan) | caps4 = 3 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2002 | clubs5 = → Tiverton Town (loan) | caps5 = 15 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 2006–2008 | clubs6 = Southend United | caps6 = 21 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2008–2010 | clubs7 = Crewe Alexandra | caps7 = 19 | goals7 = 0 | years8 = 2010 | clubs8 = Bristol City | caps8 = 0 | goals8 = 0 | years9 = 2010 | clubs9 = → Torquay United (loan) | caps9 = 1 | goals9 = 0 | years10 = 2010–2011 | clubs10 = Peterborough United | caps10 = 0 | goals10 = 0 | years11 = 2011 | clubs11 = → Northampton Town (loan) | caps11 = 4 | goals11 = 0 | years12 = 2011–2012 | clubs12 = Macclesfield Town | caps12 = 0 | goals12 = 0 | years13 = 2012–2013 | clubs13 = Buxton | caps13 = 6 | goals13 = 0 | years14 = 2013–2018 | clubs14 = Rochdale | caps14 = 0 | goals14 = 0 | totalcaps = 116 | totalgoals = 0 }} '''Stephen Philip Collis''' (born 18 March 1981) is an English former professional footballer who is currently the goalkeeping coach at York City.
==Club career== ===Barnet & Nottingham Forest===
Collis began his career in the youth team at Watford before moving to Barnet and then signing for Nottingham Forest in 2000.
===Yeovil Town===
After failing to break into the first team at Nottingham Forest, Collis was invited down by Gary Johnson for a trial match at Yeovil Town and signed the same month on a free transfer. Collis went on to make over forty appearances for the South West outfit. During his stay at Yeovil, Collis spent short loan spells at Tiverton Town and Aldershot Town with failed talks also from Exeter City. Throughout his spell with Yeovil Collis acted as back-up to Chris Weale who was much in favour at the time.
===Southend===
After leaving Yeovil, Collis signed a two-year contract in 2006 to become Southend's first signing ahead of the new season in The Championship, but was released by the club at the end of the 2007–08 season.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/southend_utd/7409180.stm|title=Five players shown Southend exit|date=19 May 2008|access-date=20 May 2008|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>
===Crewe Alexandra=== Following his spell at Southend, Collis signed for Crewe Alexandra as a replacement for departing goalkeeper Ben Williams.<ref name="BBCa">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/crewe_alexandra/7458342.stm|title=Collis signs two-year Crewe deal|date=1 July 2008|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=1 July 2008}}</ref> His first game in goal saw him save a penalty. On 1 January 2010, Crewe agreed to terminate his contract after he had lost his place to on-loan keeper John Ruddy.
===Bristol City=== In January 2010, Collis joined back up with Gary Johnson and signed a short-term deal for Football League Championship side Bristol City to take him to the end of the season.
Collis joined Torquay United on a seven-day emergency loan deal on 6 May 2010, for Torquay's final game of the season against Notts County. Collis was released by Bristol City at the end of the season.
===Peterborough United===
Collis signed a short-term deal with Peterborough United on 6 August 2010. He was then released after his loan move to Northampton Town when Peterborough invested in Exeter City Keeper Paul Jones.
===Macclesfield Town=== He signed for Macclesfield Town on 23 September 2011 on a short-term contract until January 2012 to provide cover for José Veiga.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/15020703|title=Goalkeeper Steve Collis signs Macclesfield Town deal|date=23 September 2011|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=23 September 2011}}</ref>
===Buxton=== Collis was signed by Buxton<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.non-league-bets.co.uk/keeper-steve-collis-joins-buxton-fc/|title=Keeper Steve Collis Joins Buxton|date=15 August 2012|accessdate=15 August 2012|publisher=Non League Bets}}</ref> manager Martin McIntosh at the start of the 2012–13 season after participating in several pre-season matches for the Northern Premier League Premier Division side.
===Rochdale=== On 29 January 2013 Steve Collis signed a short-term deal with Rochdale to take him to the summer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collis joins Rochdale on a two-year deal |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27476200 |website=BBC Sport |date=19 May 2014 }}</ref> "Goalkeeper Steve Collis was drafted in on Thursday as a replacement for Ben Smith who has departed the club in a bid to find regular football closer to home. Hill explains more: "It is difficult with the 'keeper situation because you're either in goal or you're on the bench. As a centre half you may be able to play full back or in midfield so you've got alternatives, but it's not very often that a goalkeeper will get replaced. It was an ideal situation to get Steve here as he's got experience."
==Career statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=17464|title=Steve Collis | Football Stats | No Club | Age 43 | 1999-2018 | Soccer Base|website=www.soccerbase.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uk.soccerway.com/players/steve-collis/50895/|title=England - S. Collis - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway|website=uk.soccerway.com}}</ref> |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |Barnet||1999–2000||Third Division||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |Nottingham Forest||2000–01||First Division||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- | rowspan="6" |Yeovil Town||2001–02||Conference||2||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||2||0 |- |2002–03||Conference||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0 |- |2003–04||Third Division||11||0||0||0||0||0||1<ref group="lower-alpha" name="FLT">Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy</ref>||0||12||0 |- |2004–05||League Two||10||0||0||0||0||0||1<ref group="lower-alpha" name="FLT" />||0||11||0 |- |2005–06||League One||23||0||1||0||0||0||0||0||24||0 |- ! colspan="2" |Total !47!!0!!1!!0!!0!!0!!2!!0!!50!!0 |- |Aldershot Town (loan)||2001–02||Isthmian League Premier||3||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||3||0 |- |Tiverton Town (loan)||2002–03||Southern League Premier||15||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||15||0 |- | rowspan="3" |Southend United||2006–07||Championship||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0 |- |2007–08||League One||20||0||3||0||2||0||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="FLT"/>||0||26||0 |- ! colspan="2" |Total !21!!0!!3!!0!!2!!0!!1!!0!!27!!0 |- | rowspan="3" |Crewe Alexandra||2008–09||League One||18||0||2||0||3||0||2<ref group=lower-alpha name="FLT"/>||0||25||0 |- |2009–10||League Two||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0 |- ! colspan="2" |Total !19!!0!!2!!0!!3!!0!!2!!0!!26!!0 |- |Bristol City||2009–10||Championship||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |Torquay United (loan)||2009–10||League Two||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0 |- |Peterborough United||2010–11||League One||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |Northampton Town (loan)||2010–11||League Two||4||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||4||0 |- |Macclesfield Town||2011–12||League Two||0||0||0||0||0||0||1<ref group="lower-alpha" name="FLT" />||0||1||0 |- |Buxton||2012–13||NPL Premier Division||6||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||6||0 |- | rowspan="7" |Rochdale||2012–13||League Two||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2013–14||League Two||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2014–15||League One||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2015–16||League One||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2016–17||League One||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2017–18||League One||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- ! colspan="2" |Total !0 !0 !0 !0 !0 !0 !0 !0 !26 !0 |- !colspan="3"|Career total !116!!0!!6!!0!!5!!0!!6!!0!!133!!0 |} {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
==Coaching career==
At the end of his playing career he became a player/goalkeeping coach with Rochdale where he spent 5 years before officially hanging up his boots in 2018 upon his departure. Collis then joined former colleague Chris Beech as goalkeeping coach at Carlisle United in August 2020. In July 2021, he made the move to Oldham Athletic, again in the role of goalkeeper coach. Oldham Athletic were relegated from the football league at the end of the 2021–2022 season.<ref>https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/19466313.former-carlisle-united-coaches-steve-collis-colin-west-join-keith-curle-oldham-athletic/, Former Carlisle United coaches Steve Collis and Colin West join Keith Curle at Oldham Athletic, News & Star, 24 July 2021</ref>
On 5 June 2024, Collis joined Notts County as goalkeeper coach.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2024/june/steve-collis-appointment-050624/|title=Welcome: Steve Collis|website=www.nottscountyfc.co.uk}}</ref>
In November 2025, Collis joined National League club York City as goalkeeping coach, reuniting with former Notts County manager Stuart Maynard.<ref> {{cite web|url=https://yorkcityfootballclub.co.uk/steve-collis-joins-as-new-goalkeeper-coach/|title=Steve Collis joins as new Goalkeeper Coach|website=yorkcityfootballclub.co.uk|date=3 November 2025|accessdate=3 November 2025}}</ref>
==See also== *Rochdale A.F.C. season 2014–15
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{Soccerbase}}
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