| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kamari Olivier Doyle [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1 August 2005 | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Crawley Town (on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion) | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2013–2023 | Southampton | ||
| 2024 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023–2024 | Southampton | 1 | (0) |
| 2024– | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | (0) |
| 2024–2025 | → Exeter City (loan) | 20 | (3) |
| 2025– | → Crawley Town (loan) | 13 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2022 | England U17 | 3 | (1) |
| 2023 | England U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2023– | England U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2024– | England U20 | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:10, 24 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:36, 12 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Kamari Olivier Doyle (born 1 August 2005) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League One side Crawley Town on loan from the academy of Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. [2]
Doyle was born to an English mother and a Jamaican father. Doyle trained with Southampton staff in Bath, Somerset from the age of seven. He would later travel down from Bristol with his grandfather to attend Southampton academy sessions. [3]
Doyle played as a sixteen year-old for Southampton in the EFL Trophy away against Charlton Athletic on 5 October 2021. [4] [5] During the season Doyle signed a pre-contract agreement that his first professional contract with Southampton that would come into effect upon his seventeenth birthday. [6] Doyle and Southampton won the Under-18 Premier League South in 2021–22. [7]
During the 2022–23 season, Doyle played as Saints B won the Premier League 2 Division 2, it was the second consecutive youth league win for Doyle. [8] He also featured prominently as the Southampton under-18 team reached the semi-finals of the 2022–23 FA Youth Cup. [9]
On the penultimate week of the season he was one of three academy players promoted to train with the first team squad for the Premier League clash against Brighton & Hove Albion on 21 May 2023. [10] Doyle was subsequently named in the match day squad and appeared in the second half as a substitute for his senior professional debut. [11] [12]
On 26 January 2024, he joined the youth academy of Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion for an undisclosed fee. [13]
On 16 August 2024, Doyle joined League One side Exeter City on a season-long loan deal. [14] He registered his first senior goal on 31 August 2024, scoring directly from a free kick during a 2–0 away win against Bolton Wanderers. [15]
On 27 January 2025, Doyle was recalled from his loan at Exeter, and loaned to fellow League One club Crawley Town. [16] On 11 February 2025 he scored his first goal for the club in a 3-1 home win over Stevenage, dribbling from the defensive half of the pitch before hitting a fierce left-footed strike into the roof of the net. [17]
Considered a two-footed player, who can receive and pass with either foot as well as strike free-kicks with either foot, it has been reported that Doyle has been mentored to a degree by James Ward-Prowse at Southampton. He has played for Southampton and England U-18s in a wide range of central midfield roles, and even in a withdrawn number 10 role. [18]
An England youth international, Doyle scored his first goal for the England U17s against Norway in June 2022. [19]
On 6 September 2023, Doyle made his England U19 debut during a 1–0 defeat to Germany in Oliva. [20]
On 15 November 2024, Doyle made his England U20 debut as a substitute during a 4-0 win over Germany at Chesterfield. [21]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Southampton | 2022–23 [22] | Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023–24 [23] | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| Brighton and Hove Albion | 2023–24 [23] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| Exeter City (loan) | 2024–25 [24] | League One | 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 2 [a] | 0 | 24 | 4 | |
| Crawley Town (loan) | 2024–25 [24] | League One | 13 | 4 | – | – | – | 13 | 4 | |||
| Career total | 34 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 8 | ||