Wayne Jacobs
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Wayne Graham Jacobs | ||
| Date of birth | 3 February 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1983–1987 | Sheffield Wednesday | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1988 | Sheffield Wednesday | 6 | (0) |
| 1988–1992 | Hull City | 129 | (4) |
| 1993–1994 | Rotherham United | 42 | (2) |
| 1994–2005 | Bradford City | 318 | (12) |
| 2005–2006 | Halifax Town | 11 | (0) |
| Total | 505 | (18) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2003 | Bradford City (joint-caretaker) | ||
| 2010 | Bradford City (caretaker) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Wayne Graham Jacobs (born 3 February 1969) is an English football coach and former professional player. He also operates a charity called One In A Million, which he set up after turning to Christianity.
Jacobs was a tenacious left back who began his playing career with Sheffield Wednesday, where he would play six First Division games in the 1987–88 season. He was sold to Hull City for a £30,000 fee in March 1988 and would go on to win the club's Player of the Year award. He suffered serious injuries, however, and was released in December 1992. He returned to fitness and spent the 1993–94 season with Rotherham United before he joined Bradford City in August 1994. He spent the next 11 years with Bradford, helping the club to win promotion out of the Second Division via the play-offs in 1996 and then to win promotion into the Premier League at the end of the 1998–99 season. He was twice named the club's Player of the Year and made 357 appearances, including 45 in the Premier League, before he departed into non-League football in May 2005.
He spent two years as the assistant manager at Halifax Town. He returned to Bradford City, serving as caretaker manager in February 2010, adding to his first spell as caretaker manager in November 2003. He later worked as an assistant to Darren Moore at West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield Wednesday, and Port Vale.