Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joshua Luke Gordon [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 10 October 1994||
Place of birth | Stoke-on-Trent, England [2] | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Walsall | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
2002–2011 | Stoke City | ||
2011–2013 | Newcastle Town | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Newcastle Town | |||
Nantwich Town | |||
2016 | Rhyl | 1 | (0) |
Nantwich Town | |||
Stafford Rangers | |||
2017–2018 | Leicester City | 0 | (0) |
2018–2021 | Walsall | 107 | (21) |
2021–2023 | Barrow | 73 | (21) |
2023–2024 | Burton Albion | 18 | (0) |
2024 | → Walsall (loan) | 21 | (1) |
2024– | Walsall | 4 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC) |
Joshua Luke Gordon (born 10 October 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Walsall. [2]
Gordon played youth football for his hometown club Stoke City but was released as a sixteen-year-old. [3] He eventually joined the junior ranks at Newcastle Town before making his way through the age groups to the first team playing in the Evo-Stik Division One South. [4] [5] He combined his early non-league football career with playing basketball, before giving up the latter to focus on football. [6]
A spell at Nantwich Town followed before he moved to Welsh club Rhyl in February 2016. [7] He made just one league appearance for Rhyl before returning to Nantwich. [2]
After a successful spell with Stafford Rangers, where he scored 11 times in the 2016–17 season, he earned a move to reigning Premier League Champions Leicester City in April 2017. [3] [8]
Having failed to break into the first team at Leicester, Gordon signed for Walsall in August 2018. [9] [10] He scored his first professional goal in an EFL Cup tie with Macclesfield Town on 28 August 2018. [11]
Gordon won Walsall's 2019–20 Player of the Season award, after finishing as top scorer with 12 goals for the club. [12] He was offered a new contract by Walsall in November 2020, which he rejected. [13]
On 16 June 2021 it was announced that Gordon would transfer to Barrow at the end of the month, after failing to agree a new contract with Walsall. [14] He was one of three Barrow players to be offered a new contract at the end of the 2022–23 season. [15]
On 19 June 2023, Gordon was announced to be joining League One club Burton Albion on a two-year deal having rejected the offer of a new Barrow contract. [16] [17]
In January 2024, Gordon returned to former club Walsall on loan until the end of the season. [18] [19] He scored his first goal back, and only goal of the season, in a 3–1 win over Doncaster Rovers. [20]
On 1 July 2024, Gordon returned to Walsall on a permanent basis, signing a two-year deal. [21] [22] He scored his first goal of the season in a 4–0 win against Swindon Town. [23]
Gordon studied for a university degree alongside his non-league career, earning a BA (Hons) in Sports Development and Coaching from the University of Staffordshire. [6] [24]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Rhyl | 2015–16 [2] | Welsh Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Leicester City U23 | 2017–18 [25] | — | — | — | 4 [a] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
Walsall | 2018–19 [26] | League One | 37 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 [a] | 1 | 45 | 9 |
2019–20 [27] | League Two | 34 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 [a] | 3 | 40 | 12 | |
2020–21 [28] | League Two | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 [a] | 1 | 38 | 6 | |
Total | 107 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 123 | 27 | ||
Barrow | 2021–22 [29] | League Two | 36 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 [a] | 0 | 43 | 7 |
2022–23 [30] | League Two | 37 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 [a] | 0 | 42 | 15 | |
Total | 73 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 22 | ||
Burton Albion | 2023–24 [31] | League One | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 [a] | 0 | 23 | 0 |
Walsall (loan) | 2023–24 [31] | League Two | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
Walsall | 2024–25 [32] | League Two | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 [a] | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Total | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 3 | ||
Career total | 224 | 44 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 264 | 52 |
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