Chris Holland was on trial at Exeter in late March 2000 from Bristol City. 
He made his debut in defence for Exeter City Reserves in the Football League Youth Alliance Cup match against Plymouth Argyle, City won 3-0.

Chris was born in Taunton in August 1980, but started as a youth player at Bournemouth and in 1998 was given a pro-contract, In July 1999 he signed for Bristol City, from where he played a few trial matches for Exeter, returning to Ashton Gate. He left Bristol City and and played for Team Bath, then Bath City in 2005, later that year he moved to Weston Super Mare, on loan returning to Bath City, he also had another loan at Gloucester City.
He made over 200 apperances at Bath City and was player of the year twice. 

He left Bath City signing for Eastleigh in July 2010. 

He also played for Havant and Waterlooville before returning to Gloucester City in 2012.
In 2013 he moved to Cirencester.

Christ is a graduate Sports Therapist and joined the University of Worcester in April 2016. He has been teaching in Higher Education since 2005 across all areas of Sports Science, and has taught on Sports Therapy programmes at both degree and Masters level. (www.worcester.ac.uk)