Jordan Stuart Connerton (born 2 October 1989) is an English

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who last played as a striker for

Lancaster City Lancaster City Football Club is an English semi-professional non-League football club based in the northern city of Lancaster, Lancashire. They currently compete in and play at Giant Axe. They are full members of the Lancashire County Footb ...

Career

Early career

He started his football career with Lancaster City at the age of just sixteen years of age playing in the

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as Lancaster were relegated with just one point to their name. This was due to the club having to go into administration due to financial difficulties. Soon after the end of the 2006–07 season after a bad injury, Jordan was then picked up by

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, scoring five goals in twelve appearances before moving to Kendal Town, under

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, scoring on his debut in a 2–2 draw in his only game for them. Similar to his spell at Chorley, he was hampered by injuries and he returned to Lancaster City in the summer of 2009.

Crewe Alexandra

After a superb season in which he had scored 30 goals by Christmas, he was signed on a three-year contract by Crewe Alexandra for a fee believed to be in the region of £35,000. Indeed, there had been interest from several clubs including

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and

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. In fact a move to Motherwell looked the more likely with a deal more or less finalised until manager

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left the club. After signing for Crewe he was however loaned back to

for the remainder of the season in order to help them with their promotion push. Made his

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debut as a substitute, replacing

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just before half time in the 2nd round

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defeat to

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. Jordan went on loan to

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and scored nine goals in eleven appearances before returning to Crewe. He made his League debut for Crewe in their home game against

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. At the end of the English 2010–11 season, he was loaned to Icelandic club ÍBV, along with midfielder

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, until July 2011 although returned home early due to injury. Had a loan spell at

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scoring five times in eight games before returning to Crewe. He joined

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on loan in March 2012 and scored on his debut against

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For the 2012–13 season, Jordan signed for

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league club

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although only played a dozen games due to injury. Jordan returned for a third spell with Kendal Town at the start of the 2013–14 season but moved on after just four months to return to hometown club

in November 2013. In December 2015, he was signed for

for the second time, by Matt Jansen. After a slow start, Jordan found his goalscoring vein, scoring 6 times in total. He also won the Lancashire cup during this spell. For the start of the 2016–17 season he returned to hometown club

for a fourth spell and was back to his prolific best. In May 2017, Connerton moved to

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, and signed for ninth tier Australian semi-professional clu
Craigieburn City FC
In his first season at the club, he scored 55 goals in only 17 appearances in a 21 match season, including eight in his team's 13–0 victory over Reservoir Yeti. He became the top goal scorer in his division that season, thirty goals clear of teammate Taner Altanhan.

Personal and early life

Connerton was born and educated in

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, before he enrolled at

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near

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Career statistics

:''(Correct as of 5 September 2010)''

References

External links

Jordan Connerton Icelandic league stats
at ksi.is {{DEFAULTSORT:Connerton, Jordan English men's footballers 1989 births Living people Lancaster City F.C. players Chorley F.C. players Kendal Town F.C. players Crewe Alexandra F.C. players Nantwich Town F.C. players Sportspeople from Lancaster, Lancashire Workington A.F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Iceland Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Lancashire