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| Adam Stephen Clayton (born 14 January 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Matlock Town.
His professional career started at Manchester City. While a City player, he enjoyed loan spells at Carlisle United, with whom he reached the 2010 Football League Trophy Final, and Leeds United, where his loan spell was made permanent basis in 2010. Clayton then had further loan spells at Peterborough United and Milton Keynes Dons before becoming a regular in Leeds' team in the 2011–12 season. He then spent two years with Huddersfield Town, and signed for Middlesbrough in 2014. While at the club, he was promoted to and relegated from the Premier League and formed a midfield partnership with Grant Leadbitter. He spent six seasons at Middlesbrough before leaving the club in 2020 when his contract expired, and then joined another Championship club, Birmingham City, where he stayed until November 2021. Clayton signed for Doncaster Rovers in January 2022, Bradford City took over his contract a year later, and he spent the 2023–24 season with Rochdale and began the following campaign with Liversedge before taking up a player/coach role with Matlock Town.
He was a member of England's under-20 team at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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| Appearances, goals and cards for Clayton
World Cup U-20 2009
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