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Dillan Solomons
Personal information
Full name	Dillan Peter Solomons
Date of birth	30 May 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth	Steenberg, Cape Town
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Team information
Current team	Kaizer Chiefs
Number	18
Senior career*
Years	Team
2016–2017	Milano United
2017–2019	Royal Eagles
2019–2020	Stellenbosch
2020–2021	All Stars
2021–2022	Moroka Swallows
2022–	Kaizer Chiefs
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2024

Dillan Solomons (born 30 May 1996) is a South African soccer player who plays as a left-back for Kaizer Chiefs in the Premier Soccer League.

Career

He hails from Steenberg.^[1] As a young player he also participated in athletics, namely sprints, long jump and triple jump. According to IOL, he was "arguably ... the fastest player in the league" in 2022.^[2] He recorded several placements between 5th and 8th at South African age-group championships, and finished 12th in the long jump at the 2016 South African Championships. Solomons managed to surpass the 7-metre barrier in the long jump by recording 7.06 metres in April 2016 in Germiston.^[3]

Solomons played one year for Milano United, then two years for Royal Eagles with whom he won promotion from the 2018-19 National First Division.^[4] Instead of contesting the 2019-20 South African Premier Division with the Royal Eagles, in July 2019 he moved to Stellenbosch^[5] Seeing very limited playing time, Solomons moved back to the second tier with All Stars before he was bought by Moroka Swallows as a replacement for left winger Kgaogelo Sekgota.^[6]

Solomons made his Premier Division breakthrough at Moroka Swallows.^[1] Manager Dylan Kerr converted him to right wing-back.^[7] Solomons was subsequently bought by Kaizer Chiefs in the summer of 2022.^[2] Sinky Mnisi, who was the CEO of Royal AM, made a minor stir by claiming that Royal AM already had agreed to buy the player from Swallows.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Solomons was a Kaizer Chiefs regular during late 2022, but then found himself more often on the bench and suffered a dislocated shoulder in January 2023.^[11] During the 2023–24 season, he largely fell out of use. By March 2024 Solomons had not yet started a single game. Reeve Frosler and then Zitha Kwinika were preferred in the right back position.^[12]