Dan Turner (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 June 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Stone, Staffordshire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Port Vale | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Port Vale | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016– | Port Vale | 5 | (0) |
| 2016 | → Kidsgrove Athletic (loan) | 4 | (5) |
|
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 27 November 2016 (UTC). | |||
Dan Turner (born 23 June 1998) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for League One side Port Vale. He played on loan at Kidsgrove Athletic during the 2016–17 season.
Playing career
Turner began his carer as a youth team scholar at Port Vale, and played for the youth team in the 2014 Staffordshire Senior Cup final defeat to Rushall Olympic.[2] He made his debut in the Football League on 23 April 2016, coming on for Theo Robinson as a late substitute in a 4–1 victory over Rochdale at Vale Park.[3] He signed his first professional contract at the end of the 2015–16 season.[4]
On 9 September 2016, he joined Northern Premier League Division One South club Kidsgrove Athletic on a one-month loan.[5] The following day he scored two goals on his debut for the "Grove" in a 5–0 home win over Chasetown.[6] He scored another two goals in his next league appearance, a 4–3 home defeat to Bedworth United.[7]
Style of play
Speaking in April 2016, Port Vale teammate Louis Dodds, described Turner as "a clever player with good vision and a very good finisher. He's very much a modern-day forward."[8]
Statistics
| Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Kidsgrove Athletic (loan) | 2016–17[9] | Northern Premier League Division One South | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Port Vale | 2015–16[10] | League One | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016–17[11] | League One | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | ||
- ↑ Appearance/s in the EFL Trophy.
References
- ↑ "Port Vale FC Player Profiles". www.port-vale.co.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Port Vale lose Staffs Senior Cup final to Rushall". The Sentinel. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ↑ "Port Vale 4 - 1 Rochdale". BBC Sport. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ↑ Baggaley, Mike (26 April 2016). "Port Vale: Vale hand professional contracts to Dan Turner, Harry Pickering and James Gibbons". The Sentinel. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ Baggaley, Mike (9 September 2016). "Port Vale: Dan Turner joins Kidsgrove on loan". The Sentinel. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ↑ Baggaley, Mike (10 September 2016). "Port Vale: Dan Turner scores twice on Kidsgrove debut". The Sentinel. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ↑ Baggaley, Mike (24 September 2016). "Port Vale: Dan Turner scores two more for Kidsgrove". The Sentinel. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ↑ Baggaley, Mike (26 April 2016). "Don't worry, but Dan Turner is a bit like me, says Louis Dodds". The Sentinel. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ "Fixtures and Results - First Team - Kidsgrove Athletic FC". www.pitchero.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ↑ "Games played by Dan Turner in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ↑ "Games played by Dan Turner in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
