| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robbie Gotts [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 9 November 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Harrogate, England [2] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder, right-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Barrow | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Leeds United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2021 | Leeds United | 1 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2021 | → Salford City (loan) | 23 | (3) |
| 2021– | Barrow | 141 | (7) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:57, 27 February 2025 (UTC) | |||
Robbie Gotts (born 9 November 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays for EFL League Two club Barrow, as a midfielder or right-back. [3]
He impressed for Carlos Corberán's Leeds United under 23 side over the course of the 2018–19 season, [4] winning the PDL Northern League 2018–19 season, then becoming the national Professional Development League champions by beating Birmingham City in the final. [5]
As of 12 December 2019, he had featured on the first-team substitutes' bench over 30 times for the first team, but had yet to make his senior debut. [6] [7] He made his long-awaited debut by starting in the FA Cup on 6 January 2020 in a 1–0 defeat against Premier League side Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. [8] [9]
After the English professional football season was paused in March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, the season was resumed during June, where Gotts earned promotion with Leeds to the Premier League and also become the EFL Championship champions for the 2019-20 season in July. [10]
Gotts won Leeds United's Academy Player of the Year award at the club's end of season awards on 24 July 2020. [11]
On 15 October 2020, Gotts joined Lincoln City on a season-long loan deal. [12] [13] He made his debut at home against Portsmouth on 3 November 2020 [14] and scored his first goal in what would be his final game, a EFL Trophy tie against Accrington Stanley on 12 January 2021. [15] He was recalled by Leeds United a few days later [16] and immediately sent on loan to Salford City for the remainder of the season. [17] [18] He was cup-tied for Salford's victory in the 2020 EFL Trophy Final (played in March 2021). [19]
Gotts left Leeds and signed for Barrow on 31 August 2021. [20] He won Player of the Year in his first season with the Bluebirds. [21]
Gotts was primarily a right-back but was converted by Marcelo Bielsa to play as a central midfielder. Bielsa described that he had never seen a player as "dynamic" as Gotts in his career, saying that "he's a number eight, a midfielder. He is not offensive and not defensive. He's a number eight." [6]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Leeds United | 2019–20 [8] | Championship | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020–21 [22] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Lincoln City (loan) | 2020–21 [22] | League One | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| Salford City (loan) | 2020–21 [22] | League Two | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 |
| Barrow | 2021–22 [23] | League Two | 35 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 3 |
| 2022–23 [24] | League Two | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 1 | |
| 2023–24 [25] | League Two | 41 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 2 | |
| 2024–25 [26] | League Two | 28 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 2 | |
| Total | 141 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 157 | 8 | ||
| Career total | 172 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 195 | 12 | ||
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