Kielen Marcel Adams (born 11 May 2001) is an English semi-professional

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who plays as a

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for

Ashton United Ashton United Football Club is a football club in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. They are currently members of and play at Hurst Cross. History The club was founded in 1878 as Hurst Football Club and the earliest known match ...

Early life

Adams was born in Huddersfield.

Career

After playing youth football for Oldham Athletic and

Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...

, Adams returned to Oldham in July 2019. In January 2020 he joined

Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...

on loan. On 2 March 2020, he joined Hyde United on a one-month loan. He was released by Oldham at the end of the 2019–20 season. On 4 September 2020, Adams signed for Clitheroe after playing for the club as a trialist. He extended his contract with the club in January 2021. In August 2021, he signed for

Macclesfield Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east ...

. Adams joined

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in March 2022, the first time since 1995 that the club had paid a transfer fee for a player. The undisclosed transfer fee was the highest that Macclesfield had received for a player. He moved on loan to

in November 2022, before the transfer was made permanent in December.

Career statistics

Honours

Marine *

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Division One West play-offs: 2021–22

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* 2001 births Living people English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players Bradford City A.F.C. players Chorley F.C. players Hyde United F.C. players Clitheroe F.C. players Macclesfield F.C. players Marine A.F.C. players Ashton United F.C. players English Football League players Northern Premier League players North West Counties Football League players Footballers from Huddersfield {{England-footy-forward-2000s-stub