Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Wormley was a regular player with the Leeds Unitedyouth team, and played for Leeds City Boys from under 11 through to under 15. He also represented Yorkshire School Boys and was an England Schoolboy. After playing as a young teenager in open age non-league football for Yorkshire Amateur, he signed for Barnsley, where he made his English league debut. He made his league debut against Bury in 1979 at the age of 17. He then signed for Huddersfield Town, but due to a serious knee injury he never made a first team appearance for the club in the league, though did play regularly for the reserve team. In 1981 Wormley was contracted to play out in Australia on a sporting visa, joining Launceston Juventus in Tasmania, before moving with Ken Worden to Townsville Kern United in 1982. Townsville won both the league championship and Ampol cup that year, the first Queensland club to do so. In 1983 he was signed by West Adelaide SC and played under Alan Vest. When Vest moved to Floreat Athena in 1984, he convinced Wormley to join him. He went on to finish as the club's leading scorer in five of the next seven seasons, winning many trophies including the State league and domestic cup three years in a row. Wormley represented the Western Australian State team for 7 years from 1984 through to 1990. Thus being one of the longest serving & leading representatives of the WA State side. He represented WA against visiting teams such as Nottingham Forest, Millwall and FC Torpedo Moscow. In 1990 Wormley played for Eastern Sports Club in Hong Kong. He later returned to Australia and played for Perth SC, Fremantle City and Inglewood United, becoming player/coach for the latter and winning the Western Australia State League Championship, thus becoming the first debutant state league coach to do so. In 1997 Wormley was awarded the WA State Soccer Coach of the year award. Wormley was appointed the Western Australian State Coachin 1999, during a period in which they played against the former European Cup WinnersRed Star Belgrade and the Malaysian U23 National side. Wormley retired from football in 2002 to start his own Company.
