| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Brad Joseph Lyons [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 26 May 1997 | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [2] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kilmarnock | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2019 | Coleraine | 94 | (17) |
| 2018–2019 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Blackburn Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 2019 | → St Mirren (loan) | 15 | (1) |
| 2021 | → Morecambe (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2021– | Kilmarnock | 92 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023– | Northern Ireland | 3 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17:46, 6 March 2025 (UTC) | |||
Brad Joseph Lyons (born 26 May 1997) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock and the Northern Ireland national team.
Lyons began his career in the Irish Premiership with Coleraine. After helping Coleraine win the Irish Cup, in September 2018 he moved on loan to English club Blackburn Rovers, with the deal to become permanent in January 2019. [3] In January 2019 he signed a permanent 18-month contract, [4] his first ever professional contract. [5] He stated that he wanted to break into the Blackburn first-team. [6] Later that month he moved on loan to St Mirren. [7] He was sent off 28 minutes into his debut, in the Scottish Cup, on 19 January 2019. [8] He was offered a new contract by Blackburn at the end of the 2019–20 season. [9]
In December 2020 he appeared in a Blackburn Rovers' first-team match day squad for the first time since he signed for the club. [10] He moved on loan to Morecambe in January 2021. [11] [12]
On 14 May 2021 it was announced that he would leave Blackburn at the end of the season, following the expiry of his contract. [13]
On 17 June 2021, it was announced that Lyons would join Scottish Championship side Kilmarnock on a two-year deal following the expiry of his Blackburn contract. [14] On 7 June 2023, he signed a new two-year contract, [15] and on 5 April 2024 signed a further new contract to keep him at the club until 2026. [16]
In August 2023, Lyons received his first call-up to the Northern Ireland senior national team by head coach Michael O'Neill, for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against Slovenia and Kazakhstan. [17] [18] He made his debut on 17 October 2023. [19] [20]
| Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Coleraine | 2014–15 | NIFL Premiership | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | NIFL Premiership | 30 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 34 | 4 | ||
| 2016–17 | NIFL Premiership | 24 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 31 | 7 | |||
| 2017–18 | NIFL Premiership | 26 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 [c] | 0 | 1 [d] | 0 | 32 | 4 | |
| 2018–19 | NIFL Premiership | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 [c] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | |
| Total | 94 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 113 | 19 | ||
| Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 2018–19 | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| Blackburn Rovers | 2018–19 | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2019–20 | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2020–21 | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| St Mirren (loan) | 2018–19 | Scottish Premiership | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| Morecambe (loan) | 2020–21 | League Two | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 [e] | 0 | 18 | 1 | |
| Kilmarnock | 2021–22 | Scottish Championship | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 3 [f] | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
| 2022–23 | Scottish Premiership | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 1 | |||
| 2023–24 | Scottish Premiership | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 29 | 3 | |||
| 2024–25 | Scottish Premiership | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 [g] | 0 | — | 39 | 1 | ||
| 2025–26 | Scottish Premiership | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 5 | 1 | |||
| Total | 92 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 125 | 6 | ||
| Kilmarnock B | 2022–23 | — | — | — | — | 2 [f] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Career total | 216 | 23 | 14 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 275 | 27 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | |
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