page_title: Kevin Foley (footballer)
section_title: Wolverhampton Wanderers
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin Foley (footballer) / Club career / Wolverhampton Wanderers
caption_attribution_description: English: Kevin Foley Player of the Season 2008 2009 - presentation at Molineux 3 May 2009
context_page_description: Kevin Patrick Foley is a retired professional footballer who is currently an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USL Championship.
  Foley, a right back also able to operate in midfield, previously spent twelve years at Luton Town before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers where he played for seven-and-a-half years. He was part of the Wolves squad which won promotion to the Premier League in 2009.
context_section_description: On 14 August 2007, Foley joined Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee, before making his club debut the following day in a League Cup tie against Bradford. He scored his first league goal for the club on 22 September 2007 against Norwich City at Molineux. He ended his first season for Wolves as a regular member of their starting XI, featuring in a total of 49 games, scoring one goal.
  The 2008–09 season saw him part of the Wolves team that won the Championship, and so returned to the Premier League. He made a total of 47 appearances, scoring one goal. His performances won him Wolves' Player of the Season Award, voted by the club's fans, as well as a new four-year contract with the club that would keep him at Wolves until at least summer 2013.
  Foley made his Premier League debut in the team's opening fixture against West Ham on 15 August 2009. During the 0–2 defeat though he sustained a medial knee ligament injury that kept him out for four months, meaning it was not until December 2009 that he got a sustained run in the team. When he did play it was mostly at right-midfield and central-midfield in a 4–5–1 formation, with players such as Ronald Zubar and Richard Stearman by now favoured in Foley's preferred right-back position.
  During the 2010–11 season, Foley scored his only Premier League goals, when he netted in consecutive home games, against Bolton then Sunderland, respectively. He made a career-best of 33 top flight appearances, scoring two goals during the campaign as the team narrowly avoided relegation. At the conclusion of the season he signed another contract extension, due to run until summer 2015.
  He began the following season but soon had to undergo surgery to treat a long-running ankle problem. Having returned to fitness in January 2012, he was part of the Wolves squad that suffered relegation under Terry Connor.
  After a second successive relegation, Foley was rarely used as new manager Kenny Jackett sought to rebuild a new team. In February 2014, Foley agreed a one-month loan with Championship club Blackpool, for whom he made five appearances but was not offered the chance to remain until the end of the season. In November 2014, having not featured for Wolves in the meantime, Foley was again loaned out to Blackpool in a deal that ran until January 2015.
  On 12 January 2015, the remainder of Foley's contract with Wolves was cancelled by mutual agreement. In total he made 213 appearances for the club, scoring six goals.
caption: Foley won Wolves' Player of the Season Award in 2009.
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