Personal information | |||
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Full name | Brad Joseph Lyons[1] | ||
Date of birth | 26 May 1997 | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Kilmarnock | ||
Number | 8 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2019 | Coleraine | 94 | (17) |
2018–2019 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2019–2021 | Blackburn Rovers | 0 | (0) |
2019 | → St Mirren (loan) | 15 | (1) |
2021 | → Morecambe (loan) | 14 | (1) |
2021– | Kilmarnock | 63 | (3) |
International career‡ | |||
2023– | Northern Ireland | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:17, 26 August 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC) |
Brad Joseph Lyons (born 26 May 1997) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock and the Northern Ireland national team.
Lyons began his career in the Irish Premiership with Coleraine.[2] After helping Coleraine win the Irish Cup, in September 2018 he moved on loan to English club Blackburn Rovers, with the deal to become permanent in January 2019.[3] In January 2019 he signed a permanent 18-month contract,[4] his first ever professional contract.[5] He stated that he wanted to break into the Blackburn first-team.[6] Later that month he moved on loan to St Mirren.[7] He was sent off 28 minutes into his debut, in the Scottish Cup, on 19 January 2019.[8] He was offered a new contract by Blackburn at the end of the 2019–20 season.[9]
In December 2020 he appeared in a Blackburn Rovers' first-team match day squad for the first time since he signed for the club.[10] He moved on loan to Morecambe in January 2021.[11][12]
On 14 May 2021 it was announced that he would leave Blackburn at the end of the season, following the expiry of his contract.[13]
On 17 June 2021, it was announced that Lyons would join Scottish Championship side Kilmarnock on a two-year deal following the expiry of his Blackburn contract.[14]
In August 2023, Lyons received his first call-up to the Northern Ireland senior national team by head coach Michael O'Neill, for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against Slovenia and Kazakhstan.[15][16] He made his debut on 17 October 2023.[17][18]