Jordan Jones (footballer, born 1994)

Jordan Jones
Personal information
Full name Jordan Lewis Jones[1]
Date of birth (1994-10-24) 24 October 1994[2]
Place of birth Redcar, England
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Kilmarnock
Number 11
Youth career
0000–2013 Middlesbrough
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Middlesbrough 0 (0)
2015 → Hartlepool United (loan) 11 (0)
2015 → Cambridge United (loan) 1 (0)
2016– Kilmarnock 77 (7)
National team‡
Northern Ireland U19
2017– Northern Ireland 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:57, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:09, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Jordan Lewis Jones (born 24 October 1994) is a footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock, as a midfielder. Jones has previously played for Middlesbrough, Hartlepool United and Cambridge United. He has played for the Northern Ireland national under-19 football team, and made his debut for the Northern Ireland senior squad in 2017.

Club career

Jones started as a youth player with his home-town club Middlesbrough. He made one appearance for the Middlesbrough first team,[3] in a 2012–13 FA Cup tie against Hastings United.

Jones was loaned to Hartlepool United in February 2015[3] and Cambridge United in November 2015. He was released by Middlesbrough at the end of the 2015–16 season.

Jones signed for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock in June 2016.[4] In January 2018, Kilmarnock turned down an offer from Rangers to buy Jones for a reported £350,000 transfer fee.[5]

International career

Jones is able to represent Northern Ireland through his Northern Irish father. Aged 17, he represented the Northern Irish U19 team but turned down an opportunity to be part of the U21 squad.[6]

In September 2017 he was called up to the senior Northern Ireland squad for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Germany and Norway. He did not play in either game.[7]

Jones won his first cap for Northern Ireland in the second leg 2018 World Cup play off qualifier on 12 November 2017, coming on as a substitute replacing Jamie Ward.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 6 October 2018
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Middlesbrough 2012–13[8] Championship 001000—10
2013–14[9] Championship 000000—00
2014–15[10] Championship 000000–00
2015–16[11] Championship 000000—00
Total 0010000010
Hartlepool United (loan) 2014–15[10] League Two 110000000110
Cambridge United (loan) 2015–16[11] League Two 1000000010
Kilmarnock 2016–17[12] Scottish Premiership 3731040—423
2017–18[13] Scottish Premiership 3244050—414
2018–19[14] Scottish Premiership 800050—130
Total 7775014000967
Career total 89760140001097

International

As of match played 11 September 2018[15]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Northern Ireland 201710
201820
Total30

References

  1. ↑ "EFL: Free Transfers: 2015/16" (PDF). English Football League. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Jordan Jones". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Jordan Jones: Hartlepool sign Middlesbrough attacker on loan". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Kilmarnock bring in 11 new players on the same day". BBC Sport. BBC. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. ↑ McCafferty, Gavin. "Rangers bid for Jordan Jones 'easy to turn down' says Kilmarnock boss". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "I regret rejecting Northern Ireland for England, says new man Jordan Jones". www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "World Cup 2018: Gareth McAuley back in Northern Ireland squad". BBC. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2012/2013". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  10. 1 2 "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Games played by Jordan Jones in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  15. ↑ "Jones, Jordan". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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