Kevin Betsy

Kevin Eddie Lewis Betsy (born 20 March 1978) is a football coach and former professional footballer.

He is currently assistant head coach at Cambridge United.

Betsy started his career at Woking, representing England at semi professional level and being named Conference Player of the Year in 1998.

In September 1998, Betsy was signed by Fulham for a fee of £80,000, which would potentially rise to £125,000, with manager Kevin Keegan describing him as one of the best young players he had seen at his age.

He made his debut at Anfield against Liverpool in the League Cup and spent three years at Fulham.

Betsy's only goal for Fulham came in their victorious 1998–99 Division Two campaign against Millwall.

He started his career with Woking but went on to make a name for himself with Fulham where he became part of the squad that earned promotions in 1999 and 2001 that made the club a Premier League team.

He made one appearance in the top tier of English football, becoming the first Seychellois player to play in the Premier League.

He made five league appearances during Fulham's 2000/01 season after which they were promoted to the Premier League.

He made one appearance in the Premiership for Fulham under Jean Tigana in a game against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

He had loan spells at AFC Bournemouth and Hull City.

He then also spent time on loan with AFC Bournemouth, Hull City, and Barnsley before joining the latter on a permanent deal in 2002.

Betsy made 94 league appearances, scoring 15 goals in a two-year period with the Tykes before moving to Hartlepool United.

His time with Pool was short and he moved on to Oldham Athletic and then Wycombe Wanderers.

On 1 March 2002, Betsy joined Barnsley on a one-month loan.

After five appearances, Betsy was signed by Barnsley for a fee of £200,000 on 28 March 2002.

He made over 90 appearances for the club and scored 17 goals and was the club's top goal scorer in 2002–03 season with 11 goals from midfield.

Betsy had a short loan spell with Hartlepool United in August 2004, making six appearances and scoring once.

On 8 September 2004, he signed for Oldham Athletic on a contract until the end of the season, after his Barnsley contract was terminated by mutual consent.

At Oldham, he scored five goals and was a key member of the team which defeated Manchester City in the FA Cup.

After turning down Oldham's offer of a new contract, Betsy moved to Wycombe Wanderers in July 2005, signing a two-year contract.

Betsy was a regular in the Wycombe team during the 2005–06 season.

He was also a regular goalscorer for the club, most notably with a hat-trick against Mansfield Town in September 2005 and in April 2006.

Betsy was honoured by his fellow professionals by being named in the Professional Footballers's Association (PFA) "Team Of The Year" for League Two and helped Wycombe reach the play-offs.

Betsy's last game for Wycombe was a notable one, the League Cup semi final defeat against the eventual winners Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

In 2007, he signed for Bristol City and whilst there spent loan spells with Yeovil Town and Walsall.

A year after signing for City he moved on again to Southend United before returning to Wycombe following a loan spell.

In January 2007, it was announced that Betsy had been signed by League One Bristol City for a fee of £200,000.

He was ever present in the city line up helping the Robins gain Promotion to Championship, scoring once in the process against Northampton.

Betsy joined Yeovil Town on loan in October 2007.

He returned to Bristol City on 7 November as Yeovil could not afford to extend the loan, having scored once for Yeovil against Swansea City.

He turned down a loan deal to Cheltenham Town in November 2007.

On 31 January 2008, Betsy joined Walsall for the rest of the season on loan.

Betsy signed for Southend United on 7 August 2008, on a two-year contract.

On 1 September 2009, Betsy re-signed for Wycombe Wanderers on a loan until 2 January 2010.

Born in England, Betsy qualified to represent the Seychelles through his grandparents and earned his first cap in 2011.

Following a move into coaching, Betsy worked as a coach for the England U16 team, later taking up similar roles with the U17 and U18 teams.

He later spent a season as U23 coach of Arsenal before managing Crawley Town briefly in 2022.

In June 2023 Betsy was announced as assistant head coach at Cambridge United.

In 2012, he re-signed for Woking.