Darnell Fisher

Darnell Fisher (born 4 April 1994) is an English footballer who plays as a Right-back for Preston North End.

Darnell Fisher
Personal information
Full name Darnell Fisher[1]
Date of birth (1994-04-04) 4 April 1994[2]
Place of birth Reading, England
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Playing position(s) Right-back
Club information
Current team
 Preston North End
Number 2
Youth career
2010–2011 Farnborough
2011–2013 Celtic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Celtic 17 (0)
2015–2016 → St Johnstone (loan) 23 (1)
2016–2017 Rotherham United 34 (0)
2017– Preston North End 95 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Career

Born in Reading, Berkshire, Fisher began his career at hometown club Eldon Celtic, before moving on to Farnborough.[3] He then signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2011 when he joined Celtic.[4] Fisher made his first team debut for Celtic on 19 October 2013 against Hibernian at Easter Road. Fisher got this opportunity to play at right-back for the first team due to Adam Matthews and Mikael Lustig both being injured.[5] The young defender got an extended run in the team and made a further 12 appearances.[6] An injury sustained in March 2014 ruled Fisher for the rest of the season, but Celtic went on to win the league title and he made enough appearances to collect a league winner's medal.[7][8]

Fisher returned to playing football for the Development Side in September 2014.[7] He made his first appearance of the season for the first team on 11 December 2014 when he came on as a substitute for the under-performing Matthews in Celtic's 4–3 defeat away against Dinamo Zagreb in the Europa League.[9][10] Fisher made a further four substitute appearances in League and League Cup games from January to March 2015.[9] He was an unused substitute in Celtic's 2–0 win over Dundee United on 15 March 2015 in the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final, entitling him to a winner's medal.[11] On 25 August 2015, Fisher was loaned to St Johnstone for the rest of the 2015–16 season.[12] He scored his first professional goal in a 3–0 win over Hearts on 19 March 2016.[13]

Fisher signed a three-year contract with Rotherham United in August 2016.[14]

Following Rotherham's relegation at the end of his first season, Fisher signed a three-year contract with Preston North End for an undisclosed fee, later revealed as being "nothing" by the Preston manager Alex Neil.[15][16]

Career statistics
As of match played 14 September 2019 [17]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Domestic Cup League Cup Other Total
Division AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Celtic 2013–14[18] Scottish Premiership 120100000130
2014–15[19] 5020001[lower-alpha 1]080
Total 170300010210
St Johnstone (loan) 2015–16[20] Scottish Premiership 231000000231
Rotherham United 2016–17[21] Championship 340100000350
Preston North End 2017–18[22] Championship 340100000350
2018–19[23] Championship 350102000380
2019–20[24] Championship 5000000050
Total 740202000780
Career Total 14816020101571
  1. Appearance in the Europa League

Honours
Celtic

References
  1. "EFL Released and Retained List 2017-18" (PDF). English Football League. p. 30. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. "Darnell Fisher". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. Halliday, Stephen (29 January 2014). "Darnell Fisher's quirky route to Celtic first team". The Scotsman. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. "Celtic Football Club". Celticfc.net. 17 July 2012. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  5. "Hibernian 1-1 Celtic - BBC Sport". M.bbc.co.uk. 19 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  6. "Darnell Fisher". Fitbastats. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  7. McHugh, Joe (30 September 2014). "Fisher makes his return from injury". Video Celts. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  8. "I'm relishing Celtic'c Champions League campaign - Darnell Fisher". Inside Futbol. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  9. "Games involving Fisher,Darnell in season 2014/2015". FitbaStats. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  10. "Match report - Dinamo Zagreb 4 - 3 Celtic". ESPN. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  11. Wilson, Richard (15 March 2015). "Dundee Utd 0 - 2 Celtic". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  12. "Celtic's Darnell Fisher joins St Johnstone on loan". BBC Sport. BBC. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  13. "Hearts 0-3 St Johnstone". BBC Sport. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  14. "Darnell Fisher: Rotherham sign defender from Celtic on three-year deal". BBC Sport. BBC. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  15. "Darnell Fisher Signs For Preston North End". PNEFC. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  16. "Preston boss Alex Neil on the reasons for appointing new head of recruitment Joe Savage". BBC Radio Lancashire. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  17. "D. Fisher". Soccerway. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  18. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  19. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  20. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  21. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  22. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  23. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  24. "Games played by Darnell Fisher in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
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