Robert Taylor (footballer, born 1994)


Robert Taylor is a Finnish professional football player who plays for Brann.

Club career

Taylor joined the youth team at JJK in 2004, and stayed with the club until senior level. During this time he had spells in the country of his father's birth, England, with Nottingham Forest and then Lincoln City, who he joined on a two-year scholarship in 2011. He was loaned out to Boston Town of the United Counties League in 2013, where he made one appearance. Later in 2013 he joined Barnet, where he was due to sign a professional contract, but this fell through following their relegation from the English Football League.
Taylor played for JJK in the Ykkönen until 2015, when he joined Veikkausliiga side RoPS.
In the summer of 2017, Taylor was sold to AIK for €100,000. He joined Tromsø on loan for the 2018 season, and then permanently for the 2019 season.
On 20 January 2020, Robert Taylor signed a three-year deal with SK Brann, in an exchange deal seeing Ruben Yttergård Jenssen going the other way.

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International career

Taylor has been capped by Finland at under-17, under-19, under-20, under-21 and senior level. He made his debut for the senior side on 9 January 2017, as a substitute in a friendly win over Morocco.

Personal life

Taylor's father Paul is an English former footballer who played for KuPS in the 1990s.