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Tyler D'Whyte Roberts (born 12 January 1999) is a professional
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who plays as a
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or
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for club
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and the Wales national team. Roberts is an academy graduate of
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and made his professional debut for the club in May 2016.
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spells in
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with
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,
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and
Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located ...
followed before he joined
Leeds United Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
in January 2018. In the 2019-2020 season, Roberts was a member of the Leeds squad that won the
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title and promotion to the
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under manager
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. He spent the 2022–23 season on loan at
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before joining
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in June 2023. He spent most of the 2024–25 season on loan at
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. He made his senior Wales debut in 2018, having previously represented the nation at various youth levels, and represented Wales at
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. A versatile forward, he can play as a striker, winger or
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.


Early life

Born in
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to parents of Jamaican and Welsh descent, Roberts moved to
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aged 11. He attended
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in
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.


Club career


West Bromwich Albion

Having spotted him playing for junior side Tredworth Tigers at a Gloucester Festival,
West Bromwich Albion West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
decided to sign Roberts for their academy when he was just seven years old. Having then gone on to represent the club at age group level, Roberts was named on West Brom's bench for the first time on the final day of the 2014–15 season against
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. However, he did not make it on to the pitch. Following Roberts' inclusion in the squad, he was listed by ''
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'' magazine as one of the 20 wonder-kids to look out for in 2016. On 14 January 2016, just two days after his 17th birthday, Roberts turned professional with West Brom, signing a -year contract. He made his
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debut for the club on the final day of the 2015–16 season in a 1–1 draw with
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, coming on as a second-half substitute for fellow academy graduate
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. Shortly after coming on, Roberts was booked for a rash challenge on Liverpool captain
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. He became only the second player born in 1999 to play in the Premier League, following on from Leko who had done so the month before.


2016–2018: Loans to Oxford United, Shrewsbury Town and Walsall

On 28 July 2016, Roberts joined
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club
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on
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until January 2017. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2016–17 season, coming off the bench for
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in a 1–1 draw with Chesterfield. His League Cup debut came the following week when he entered the field of play as an
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substitute in Oxford's 1–0 win over
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. He scored the first goal of his professional career in a 4–2 victory over League Two club
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in the
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on 30 August. On 5 November, Roberts made his
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debut and scored in a 5–0 win over
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of the
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. In the second round a month later, he scored the winning penalty in a
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against
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. In December, Oxford
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lodged a request to West Brom to extend Roberts' loan, but on 17 January 2017, he joined another League One club,
Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1886, the club were inaugur ...
, on loan until the end of the season. He made his debut four days later, starting in a 1–0 league win over
Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2025–26 EFL League Two, 2025–26 season, the team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the Eng ...
. Roberts' first goal for the club, and his first in league football, opened the scoring in a 2–1 win over Bury on 4 February. He suffered a hamstring injury in a 2–1 defeat to
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on 4 April that put an end to his stint at Shrewsbury. He ended the campaign with four goals and two assists for the club as they narrowly avoided relegation, and won the club's Young Player of the Year award. On 25 August 2017, Roberts left West Brom on loan once again, joining League One side
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for the season. The following day, he scored one goal and assisted another on debut against
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, helping Walsall come from 3–0 down to earn a 3–3 draw. He went on to score five goals in 17 appearances before being recalled by West Brom at the half-way mark of the season.


Leeds United


Transfer

Roberts' return to West Brom was short-lived, however, as the arrival of
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on loan from Liverpool limited his first team chances further. As a result, on the final day of the January 2018 transfer window, he signed for
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club
Leeds United Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
on a four-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee, reported at the time as £2.5 million and later reported as potentially rising to £4 million depending on clauses. Roberts had arrived at the club with a minor knock, and looked set to make his debut in the middle of February. However, on 14 February, new manager
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confirmed that he had cracked his shin bone when he returned to training and would be out for several weeks, but ultimately missed the remainder of the season.


2018–19 season

After spending several months on the sidelines, Roberts made his unofficial debut as a second-half substitute during a pre-season friendly against
Southend United Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth level of English football. The team are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference ...
. His full debut followed on 14 August when he started an
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fixture against
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. In September, he made his league debut in a 1–1 draw with
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and three days later scored his first two goals for the club in a 3–0 victory over
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. Playing in an
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position, he assisted
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twice in a 4–0 victory over his former club, West Bromwich Albion, on 1 March, and received the man of the match award. He was one of three players nominated for the club's Young Player Of The Season award alongside
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and Jack Clarke, but lost out to Clarke. Roberts scored three times in 32 games in all competitions as Leeds finished the regular season in third place; they dropped out of the automatic promotion places with three games left after a defeat to 10-man
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on 19 April. They qualified for the play-offs, but Roberts missed the final games of the season due to injury as his team let slip a 2–0 lead to lose 4–3 on aggregate to sixth-placed
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in the semi-final.


2019–20 season

Roberts ended up missing all the 2019–20 pre-season games and the start of the new season after undergoing knee surgery during May 2019. He returned from injury against
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on 28 September 2019, before scoring his first goal of the season against
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in a 2–0 win on 2 November 2019. However, Roberts picked up an injury against
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on 26 November, which kept him out of the side for a month; he returned as a substitute in Leeds' 5–4 win against
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on 29 December, but picked up a hamstring injury in the same game. The injury kept him out of the team until early February 2020, when he returned as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 defeat at home to Wigan Athletic. On 29 February, Roberts came on as a 67th-minute substitute for Bamford with Leeds 2–0 ahead at
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and scored the last two goals of the 4–0 win. Following the suspension of the Championship season, Roberts appeared in eight of the club's final nine games, scoring once, as they were promoted to the Premier League.


2020–21 season

Roberts made his first appearance of the
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on the opening day, coming on as a substitute in the 4–3 loss to reigning champions
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at
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. His first goal of the season did not come until stoppage time of the visit to
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on 18 May to complete a 2–0 win.


2021–22 season

In June 2021, Roberts signed a new three-year deal with Leeds to run until the summer of 2024. Roberts came on as a 76th-minute substitute for Jack Harrison during a 1–0 away defeat at Leicester on 5 March 2022 and almost immediately ruptured a hamstring tendon, but continued to play for the full 90 minutes. He underwent surgery, and was out for the rest of the season.


2022–23 season

Roberts joined Championship club
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on 6 July 2022 on loan for the 2022–23 season. He scored on his QPR debut in an EFL Cup tie against
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on 9 August, and played regularly up to the end of October. He was affected by a recurrent calf injury that kept him out of Wales'
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squad and forced him to miss six QPR matches before the mid-season break for the
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. Although he regained fitness, returned to league action in December, and scored twice away to
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to earn his side a comeback draw, further injury in January that required treatment back at Leeds put an early end to his season.


Birmingham City

Roberts signed a four-year contract with Championship club
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in June 2023; the fee was undisclosed. On 30 August 2024, Roberts signed for League One club
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on loan for the remainder of the season. He made 29 appearances, mostly in the starting eleven.


International career


Youth

Though he represented
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, his country of birth, at schoolboy level, Roberts later decided to play for
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instead, qualifying for selection as two of his grandparents are Welsh. In 2015, he captained the Wales U16 side to glory in the
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, scoring in the final against
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. The result was Wales' first outright triumph in the competition since the 1948–49 edition. Having trained with the senior side in between, he returned to the U16 side in November the following year and was part of the squad which retained the Victory Shield title. In May 2017, following the conclusion of the League One season, he was included in Robert Page's squad for the
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. After making his debut for the side in the tournament opener against
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, Roberts made one further appearance, against
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, as Wales were eliminated in the group stage. On 1 September 2017, he made his debut for the under-21 side and scored the opening goal in a 3–0 victory over
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.


Senior

In May 2015, Roberts, along with
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winger Harry Wilson, was called up by Wales manager Chris Coleman to train with the senior squad. In March 2017 he was named as a stand-by player for Wales'
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against the
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. He received his first full call-up in August 2018 when he was named in
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' squad for the nation's
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matches against the
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and
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. His debut followed against the former on 6 September, coming on as a second-half substitute for
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in a 4–1 victory. The following month, on 16 October 2018, Roberts was handed his first Wales start as the Republic of Ireland were again beaten 1–0 in
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. In May 2021 he was selected for the Wales squad for the delayed
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tournament.


Career statistics


Club


International


Honours

Leeds United *
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: 2019–20 Wales U16 *
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: 2015; 2016


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Tyler 1999 births Living people Footballers from Gloucester English men's footballers Welsh men's footballers 21st-century Welsh sportsmen Wales men's youth international footballers Wales men's under-21 international footballers Wales men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Leeds United F.C. players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Oxford United F.C. players Shrewsbury Town F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Queens Park Rangers F.C. players Birmingham City F.C. players Northampton Town F.C. players Premier League players English Football League players UEFA Euro 2020 players Welsh people of Jamaican descent English people of Welsh descent English people of Jamaican descent Sportspeople of Jamaican descent 21st-century English sportsmen