Dajaune Brown

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Dajaune Brown
Personal information
Full name Dajaune Anthony Brown [1]
Date of birth (2005-10-16) 16 October 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth Nottingham, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Derby County
Number 39
Youth career
0000?–2023 Derby County
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Derby County 7 (1)
2024 → Gateshead (loan) 18 (6)
International career‡
2024- Jamaica U-23 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:07, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:45, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Dajaune Anthony Brown (born 16 October 2005) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Derby County.

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Brown after coming through the academy, signed his first professional contract in July 2023, a month later Brown would make his first team debut for Derby. In January 2024, Brown joined Gateshead on loan, where he helped them win the FA Trophy. He scored his first goal for Derby against Hull City in a league game on 26 October 2024.

Club career

Brown came through Derby County's academy, [2] making his debut for the under-18s as a schoolboy during the 2020–21 season. [2] That season he scored twice in six Premier League U18 appearances. [2] The 2022–23 saw further progress with nine goals in nine appearances for the under-21s, and one goal in three Premier League 2 appearances. [2] Brown also made his first appearance in the first team squad as an unused substitute in Derby's fourth round FA Cup match against West Ham United in January 2023. [3]

In July 2023, after training and playing with the first team in pre-season ahead of the 2023–24 season, Brown, aged 17, signed a three-year professional deal which will run until the summer of 2026. [4] He made his professional debut coming off the bench as a 73rd minute substitute for Conor Washington against Blackpool in the EFL Cup on 8 August 2023. [5] Brown made his senior league debut for Derby as a 77th minute substitute for Max Bird in a 4–0 win against Northampton Town in League One on 31 October 2023. [6] Brown made 5 appearances for the first team during the season as they secured promotion to the Championship.

On 23 January 2024, Brown joined National League club Gateshead on a youth-loan until the end of the season. [7] Brown made his debut for Gateshead as a 77th minute substitute for Conor McBride in a 2–1 win against Barnet on 27 January 2024. [8] Brown scored his first goal in senior football during this loan spell, scoring an 90th minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw at Boreham Wood. [9] He would score his second goal, three days later on 5 March in a 3–2 defeat to Solihull Moors [10]

Gateshead interim manager Rob Elliot, called for patience from the Gateshead fans he was yet to start a National League game for Gateshead. [11] On 9 March 2024, Brown would start in Gateshead's FA Trophy quarter-final match at home to Peterborough Sports and he would score his first career hat-trick, within 22 minutes, with goals coming a 15 minute period as Gateshead advanced to the semi-finals 3–2 victors, Brown had now scored five goals in three appearances for Gateshead. [12]

On 12 March 2024, Brown would make his first league start and score the only goal in a 1–0 win at home to Dagenham & Redbridge, in the 76th minute which extended his goalscoring run. [13] Brown would score twice in a 7–1 win against local rivals Hartlepool United on 26 March, [14] and would assist Gateshead's two goals in their 2–1 FA Trophy semi-final win against Macclesfield on 6 April, as they secured a place in the final at Wembley Stadium in May. [15] Brown was named the National League Player of the Month for March. [16]

Brown scored six times in eighteen National League games during his loan spell, as Gateshead qualified for the National League play-offs, however the club were denied a place in the play-offs as the club failed to meet the EFL to get a 10-year lease on the Gateshead International Stadium require to play in the Football League. [17] Brown would score an equalising goal in extra time in the FA Trophy final against Solihull Moors on 11 May 2024 as the game ended in a 2–2 draw; Gateshead won the tie in a penalty shoot-out to win the Trophy, with Brown scoring the winning penalty in sudden death. [18] Brown scored 10 times in 22 appearances for Gateshead in all competitions. [19]

Ahead of the 2024–25 season, Brown took a full part of Derby's first team pre-season activities. [20] Derby head coach Paul Warne saying that he wanted to take a look at Brown in pre-season to state if he was ready to be part of the a first team squad in the Championship. [21] Brown started Derby's EFL Cup first round tie against Chesterfield, his performance impressed the Derby coaching staff. [22] At the end of summer transfer window, there was speculation that Brown may be loaned out to a League One or League Two club with a reported twelve clubs in the two divisions interested in a loan for Brown but Warne decided to keep Brown and Derby as they were unable to sign a centre forward of sufficient quality; with Warne preferring to have Brown develop and be part of the first team squad at Derby. [23] Brown made his Championship debut in a 3–0 victory to Bristol City on 31 August 2024. [24] On 19 September 2024, Brown signed a new contract at Derby, extending his stay until June 2027. [25] On 26 October 2024, Brown scored his first goal for Derby in a 1–1 draw to Hull City in the Championship, with a header. [26]

International career

In March 2024, Brown was called up by the Jamaica under-23 team for a training camp and friendlies against RCD Espanyol Cantera and Guinea under-23s. [27]

Personal life

Born in England, Brown is of Jamaican descent. [28]

Career statistics

As of match played 6 November 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague FA Cup EFL Cup OtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Derby County 2023–24 [29] League One 2000102 [a] 050
2024–25 [30] Championship 510020—71
Total71003020121
Gateshead (loan) 2023–24 [29] National League 186——4 [b] 42210
Career total2570030643411
  1. ↑ Appearances in the EFL Trophy
  2. ↑ Appearances in the FA Trophy

Honours

Derby County

Gateshead

Individual

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