Daniel John E. S. Elliott (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional

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who plays as a

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for club

Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The side currently competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The tea ...

. A former

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player at

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and

Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park ...

, Elliott played college soccer in the United States with

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and later represented

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and the

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. He joined Spanish club San Cristóbal in October 2018 and then signed with

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side

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in January 2019. Released by Port Vale in May 2019, he signed with

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two months later. He was

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ed out to

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in January 2020. He signed with

Hartlepool United Hartlepool United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They were founded in 1908 as Hartle ...

in April 2021 and helped the club to win

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out of the

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via the

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two months later. He remained in

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however, signing with

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side

Boston United Boston United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The club participates in the National League North, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club is known ...

in July 2021. He was named as Boston's Player of the Year for the 2021–22 season. At the end of the season, Elliott turned down a new

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with Boston and moved up a division to sign for Boreham Wood. He was loaned out to

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in December 2022 and

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red to Scunthorpe United two months later.

Early and personal life

Born in

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, Elliott attended

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. He earned a BA in economics from

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in May 2018.

Career

Early career

Elliott began his career with the

s of

and

where he received a two-year scholarship before moving on to collegiate soccer in New York America. He played college soccer for the

between 2014 and 2017. He also spent time with

, and the

. He made his

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debut for the Rough Riders on 24 June 2018, in a 1–0 defeat at

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. He made a further five appearances, scoring one goal in 3–2 victory over

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at the

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Port Vale

He signed for Spanish

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club San Cristóbal in October 2018. He left the club in January 2019 to trial with English

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club

. The trial was successful and later that month he signed for Port Vale until the end of the 2018–19 season. He made his debut in the

on 19 January, coming on for

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as a 75th-minute substitute in a 1–0 win at

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. After the match, Port Vale

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said that "Danny is a gamble. We have put him on today but if we had more strikers he wouldn't be thrown in the deep end". After three months playing

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football, he returned to the first-team to impress new manager

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as a substitute against

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on 19 April. However, Askey confirmed that he would not be offering Elliott a new

on 16 May.

Chester

Elliott joined

club

on a one-year deal in July 2019, following a successful trial spell in which he scored against

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in a pre-season friendly at the

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. He moved on

to league rivals

in January 2020. He scored a

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on his debut for the "Reds" in a 6–1 victory over Gloucester City at North Street on 28 January. He ended the loan spell with five goals from five games and was put back into the first-team following his return to the

. He scored three goals in 21 appearances for Chester in the 2019–20 season, which was permanently suspended on 26 March due to the

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, with Chester in the play-offs in seventh place. They were knocked out of the play-offs with a 3–1 loss at

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. He scored eight goals in 22 games before the

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season was also curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 12 April 2021, it was announced that Elliott had left Chester.

Hartlepool United

On 14 April 2021, Elliott signed with National League club

on a contract until the end of the season. Elliott made his debut for Hartlepool as a substitute in a 7–2 victory at

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. Elliott scored his first goal for Hartlepool in a 4–2 defeat to

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on 8 May. Hartlepool reached the

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of the play-offs against

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at Ashton Gate Stadium, with Elliott featuring as a 72nd-minute substitute for

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;

to the Football League was secured with a

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victory, during which Elliott scored his

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. He was released by Hartlepool at the end of the 2020–21 season.

Boston United

On 14 July 2021, Elliott joined National League side

and scored in his first appearance in a Boston shirt as the "Pilgrims" beat

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in the

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. He scored 27 goals from 48 appearances throughout the 2021–22 season, his 19 league goals making him the division's fifth highest scorer and helping Boston to qualify for the play-offs. Elliott won both the Fans' and Players' Player of the Year at the club's end of season awards. He scored three goals in the play-offs, helping Boston to advance past

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and

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, though they were denied promotion after losing 2–0 to

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in the final. At the end of the season, Elliott was named in the National League North Team of the Year.

Boreham Wood

After turning down a new contract with Boston, Elliott signed for National League side

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on 1 July 2022. He scored two goals in his first fifteen starts for the club. On 3 December 2022, Elliott signed on loan for National League rivals

until the end of the

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season. He won Gateshead's Player of the Month award for December. After six goals in nine games in all competitions for Gateshead, Elliott was recalled by Boreham Wood on 31 January 2023. Wood manager

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explained that “we always had an agreement that he needed to go out and get game time, confidence and goals, and he has definitely stuck to his side of the bargain”.

Scunthorpe United

On 6 February 2023, Elliott

red to National League side

for an undisclosed fee. He said that his aim was to score the goals needed to steer the club out of the

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zone. He scored two goals in fifteen games as Scunthorpe were relegated at the end of the

season.

Career statistics

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Honours

Hartlepool United *

play-offs:

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Individual *

Players' Player of the Year: 2021–22 *Boston United Fans' Player of the Year: 2021–22

References

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