Jordan Jones (footballer, born 1994)


Jordan Jones is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership club Rangers as a winger. Jones has previously played for Middlesbrough, Hartlepool United Cambridge United and Kilmarnock. He has played for the Northern Ireland national under-19 football team, and made his debut for the Northern Ireland senior squad in 2017.

Club career

Jones started as a youth player with his home-town club Middlesbrough. He made one appearance for the Middlesbrough first team, in a 2012–13 FA Cup tie against Hastings United.
Jones was loaned to Hartlepool United in February 2015 and Cambridge United in November 2015. He was released by Middlesbrough at the end of the 2015–16 season.
Jones signed for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock in June 2016. In January 2018, Kilmarnock turned down an offer from Rangers to buy Jones for a reported £350,000 transfer fee. However, in January 2019 he signed a pre-contract agreement to join Rangers at the end of the 2018–19 season, and immediately tweeted a message expressing his delight at the "dream move" to the Glasgow club, which annoyed many Kilmarnock supporters as he would still be representing their team for several months, and only a point separated his current and future employers at the top of the league table. Jones later admitted he had been "over-excited" in sending the message, while Killie manager Steve Clarke defended the player and confirmed he would have no hesitation in playing him while he remained with the Ayrshire club. That backing was rewarded when Jones scored the winning goal in the next league fixture at Rugby Park, against Rangers; the 2–1 result boosted Kilmarnock's title hopes while denting those of the Gers.

Rangers

In June 2019 he said he wanted to be a first-team player at Rangers. He made his competitive debut for the club on 9 July 2019 in a 4–0 win over St Joseph's of Gibraltar in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.

International career

Though born in England, Jones is able to represent Northern Ireland through his Northern Irish father. Aged 17, he represented their U19 team but turned down an opportunity to be part of the U21 squad.
In September 2017, he was called up to the senior Northern Ireland squad for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Germany and Norway,but did not play in either game. He won his first senior cap for Northern Ireland in the 2018 World Cup Qualifying play-off second leg on 12 November 2017, coming on as a substitute, replacing Jamie Ward.

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