# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matty-appleby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:25:42.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matty-appleby"
name: "Matty Appleby"
slug: "matty-appleby"
description: "Matthew Wilfred Appleby is an English former football midfielder who retired in 2008. He played in the Premier League with Barnsley and had a distinguished spell at Darlington, before dropping into non-League and eventually leaving football to become a deep-sea diver."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1972)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1972-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.74
  momentum:             3.529411764705882
  historical:           6.138661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "میٹی ایپلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "ماتي أبليبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "ماتى اپليبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Appleby"
    title: "Matty Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "متی اپلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Appleby"
    title: "Matty Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Эпплби, Мэтти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6791895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump