Personal information | |||
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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) |
2018–2021 | Leeds United | 1 | (0) |
2020–2021 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2021 | → Salford City (loan) | 23 | (3) |
2021– | Barrow | 118 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:53, 8 September 2024 (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's side over the course 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 substitute's 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 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on association football, 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 after the successful resumption of the season. [10]
Gotts won Leeds United's Academy Player of the Year award at the clubs 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 would make his debut at home against Portsmouth on 3 November 2020 [14] and would score 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 | ||||||
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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 | |
Total | 72 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 80 | 4 | ||
Career total | 103 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 118 | 8 |
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