Dillon Phillips (born 11 June 1995) is an English professional

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who plays as a

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for

KV Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende, also called KV Oostende () or KVO, is a Belgian football club from the city of Ostend, West Flanders in Belgium. The team was founded in 1904 as ''VG Oostende'' and has the matricule No. 31. History In 1911, an ...

on loan from

Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

. He had brief loan spells at

Whitehawk Whitehawk is a suburb in the east of Brighton, England, south of Bevendean and north of Brighton Marina. The area is a large, modern housing estate built in a downland dry valley historically known as Whitehawk Bottom. The estate was originally ...

and

Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex, north-east of central London, and by rail from Liverpool Street station. Stortford had an estimated po ...

, before helping

Cheltenham Town Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league syst ...

to win the

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whilst on a season-long loan during the 2015–16 campaign.

Club career

Phillips signed for the

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

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when he was 8 years old. He signed his first professional forms in the summer of 2013 at the age of 17 and joined

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side

on a one-month loan on 8 November 2013. He returned to the Conference South on a one-month loan with

on 3 January 2015. He joined

club

on a six-month loan in July 2015. He started every game for the "Robins", keeping ten clean sheets in 26 games, and had his loan extended until the end of the 2015–16 season. He picked up an injury in March 2016, and missed the end-of-season run-in as Cheltenham secured promotion as National League champions. He signed a new two-year contract with Charlton in May 2016. On 16 October 2020, Phillips joined

for an undisclosed fee. On 27 July 2022, Phillips joined

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side Oostende on a season-long loan deal.

Career statistics

Honours

Cheltenham Town *

: 2015–16 Charlton Athletic *

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Individual * Charlton Athletic Player of the Year: 2019–20

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Dillon 1995 births Footballers from Hornchurch Living people English footballers Association football goalkeepers Charlton Athletic F.C. players Whitehawk F.C. players Bishop's Stortford F.C. players Cheltenham Town F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players National League (English football) players English Football League players English expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium English expatriate sportspeople in Belgium K.V. Oostende players