Alex Byrne (footballer, born 1997)

Alex Byrne
Personal information
Full name Alex John Byrne[1]
Date of birth (1997-02-05) 5 February 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Barnstaple, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 Exeter City 2 (0)
2015–2016 → Weston-super-Mare 27 (0)
2017 → Truro City 3 (0)
2018–2019 Weston-super-Mare 38 (1)
2019– Bideford 15 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 August 2020

Alex John Byrne (born 5 February 1997) is an English footballer who plays for Bideford.

Career

Byrne began his career with Exeter City and made his professional debut for the Grecians on 13 August 2016 in a 2–1 defeat against Hartlepool United. He had spent the previous season on loan at Weston-super-Mare.[3] He spent some of the 2016–17 season on loan at Truro City.

He made his second overall appearance for the Grecians first team came almost a year later in Exeter's 1–2 EFL Cup loss to Charlton Athletic,[4] and made his second league appearance for Exeter as a late substitute on 11 November 2017.[5]

Byrne was released by Exeter at the end of the 2017–18 season.[6] He re-joined Weston-super-Mare in August 2018 following a successful trial, making his debut in the Seagulls' loss to Wealdstone on the opening day of the 2018–19 season.[7] On 10 October 2019 the club announced that Byrne had left the club.[8]

References

  1. ^ "EFL Released and Retained List 2016–17" (PDF). English Football League. p. 78. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  2. ^ Alex Byrne at Soccerway. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Exeter 1-2 Hartlepool". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  4. ^ "City 1 Charlton Athletic 2". Exeter City FC. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  5. ^ Strange, Ben (11 November 2017). "City 2 Grimsby Town 0". Exeter City FC official site. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Troy Archibald-Henville: Exeter City defender among seven released by club". BBC Sport. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Wealdstone FC vs Weston super Mare". Weston-super-Mare AFC official website. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  8. ^ PLAYER MOVEMENT AT THE OPTIMA, westonsmareafc.co.uk, 10 October 2019