Kyri Neocleous

Kyri Neocleous reunited with Steve Morison when he joined the club as a Goalkeeper Coach in June 2025, having previously worked with the Head Coach at Hornchurch. Born in Enfield, North London but with Cypriot heritage, Neocleous took on coaching roles very early on from his school days and aside from a brief stint playing in youth teams and in the Spartan South Midlands League, always intended on forging a career in coaching rather than as a player. His short-lived spell as a player saw him work with the likes of Paul Furlong and Micah Hyde during a stint at Barnet, while he also commented on the impact former Tottenham Hotspur youth player, Martin Brennan had on him as well as current Hull City goalkeeper coach Erbil Bozkurt. However, Neocleous sided towards a career in coaching, and developed his leadership and training skills during a residential trip from the FA Scholarship Programme to Maine, New England over in the United States of America. Making the journey across the ocean at the age of 17, having previously worked with the local borough and the Football Association from the age of 15, he was subsequently voted as one of the top three leaders within the category of 16-24 and got to experience coaching philosophies within both a school structure and also an elite football environment. Neocleous later got the chance to come straight out of his scholarship and take on a management role in the FA Women’s Premier League, returning to his hometown to manage the Ladies Team of local side Enfield Town, and became the youngest manager in the division in the process. Playing against the likes of West Ham United and Crystal Palace, he guided the Towners to a top five finish in his first season and followed it up by beating Newcastle United in the semi-final of the 2016 FA Women’s Premier League Plate, becoming the first part-time group to reach a national final against Coventry City, where they fell to a 4-1 defeat. Furthermore, his association with the Towners extended to working as a First Team Goalkeeping Coach for the club’s Men’s side, before serving as a Goalkeeping Coach for Braintree Town, where he established a reputation for his focus on developing young goalkeepers and his ability to build a positive team environment across a three-year spell with the Iron. The 31-year old then joined the coaching staff at Hornchurch where he spent the 2023/24 campaign alongside Morison until the latter’s departure for Sutton midway through the season, and Neocleous exited Upminster himself the following summer, having contributed to a title-winning campaign in the Isthmian Premier Division.