Alex Byrne (footballer, born 1997)

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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*
YearsTeamApps(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.

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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]

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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
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