Jayden Danns

Jayden Danns
Personal information
Full name Jayden Alexander Danns
Date of birth (2006-01-16) 16 January 2006
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 Liverpool
Number 76
Youth career
2014–2023 Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2023– Liverpool 3 (0)
2025 → Sunderland (loan) 0 (0)
International career‡
2021 England U16 3 (1)
2023– England U18 9 (0)
2025– England U20 1 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 13:30, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Jayden Alexander Danns (born 16 January 2006) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool.

Early life and career

Jayden Alexander Danns[1] was born on 16 January 2006 in Liverpool.[2] He joined Liverpool F.C. when he was eight years old[3] and attended Rainhill High School, where he won the Year 8 Merseyside Schools Cup in 2019.[4]

Club career

Danns progressed through the Liverpool academy. While playing at U16 level, he suffered from Osgood–Schlatter disease.[5] He began playing for the Liverpool U18 side when he was 16 years-old.[6] He began the 2023–24 season in fine form, scoring in every competitive match for the Liverpool under-18s between August and December 2023, totalling nine goals in seven games. He also scored four goals in three games in the 2023–24 U18 Premier League Cup.[7][8]

Danns made his debut at first-team level in the 2023–24 EFL Trophy, appearing as a second-half substitute against Morecambe in September 2023.[9] On 21 February 2024, he made his Premier League debut as an 89th-minute substitute in a 4–1 home win over Luton Town.[10] Four days later, he featured in the 2024 EFL Cup final as Liverpool beat Chelsea 1–0 at Wembley Stadium.[11] He scored his first and second goals for Liverpool on 28 February in the fifth round of the FA Cup in a 3–0 home victory against Southampton. He was given the player of the match award for the first time.[12] On 15 March 2024, Danns signed a new long-term contract with the club.[13]

He suffered an injury in the pre-season of the 2024-25 season and didn't return to training until November 2024.[14] He made a goal scoring return to the first team when he scored the third goal in a 4–0 win over Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup on 11 January 2025.[15] He made his first Liverpool start in a 3-2 UEFA Champions League defeat against PSV Eindhoven on 29 January 2025.[16][17]

On 4 February 2025, Danns joined EFL Championship club Sunderland on loan until the end of the season.[18] Danns didn't make a single appearance for Sunderland during his loan due to a back injury.[19][20]

International career

He was called up to play with the England national under-18 team in October 2023.[21]

On 5 September 2025, Danns made a goalscoring U20 debut during a 2-1 defeat to Italy at the SMH Group Stadium.[22]

Personal life

He is the son of former professional footballer and Guyana international Neil Danns.[23][24] His grandfather, also called Neil, was a backing singer on the UK's entry in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest as well as a European title-winning skateboarder.[25][26] He has a younger brother, Kaylen, and a younger sister, Hayla-Essen.

Career statistics

As of match played 23 September 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup EFL Cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Liverpool U21 2023–24 —————1[a]010
Liverpool 2023–24 Premier League 2012101[b]0—52
2024–25 Premier League 1011101[c]0—41
2025–26 Premier League 000010000010
Total 3023302000103
Sunderland (loan) 2024–25 Championship 00———0000
Career total 3023202010103
  1. ↑ Appearance in EFL Trophy
  2. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Champions League

Honours

Liverpool

References

  1. ↑ "Latest updated Premier League squad lists for 2023/24". Premier League. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Jayden Danns: Profile". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  3. ↑ Squires, Theo (9 August 2022). "Liverpool have sons of four ex-Premier League footballers in Academy squad". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "School year 8 team triumphs in Merseyside Cup Final". St Helens Star. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Meet the Academy: Get to know the goalscoring and superstitious Jayden Danns". Liverpool F.C. 14 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  6. ↑ Pawley, Luke (9 June 2022). "Five Leicester City old boys with sons playing for Premier League clubs". Leicester Mercury.
  7. ↑ Bocsak, Ben (27 November 2023). "Liverpool has exciting forward who can follow his father's path amid Jürgen Klopp track record". Liverpool F.C. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Doyle, Ian (26 November 2023). "Liverpool have 17-year-old striker who simply cannot stop scoring". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Doyle, Ian (21 September 2023). "Liverpool U21 player ratings as Bobby Clark and Calum Scanlon send strong message". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Liverpool beat Luton to move four points clear at top". BBC Sport. 19 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "Liverpool win EFL Cup with Van Dijk extra-time header". BBC Sport. 25 February 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  12. ↑ "Lewis Koumas and Jayden Danns score to put Liverpool into FA Cup quarter-finals – Liverpool FC". Liverpool F.C. February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  13. ↑ "Jayden Danns signs new long-term Liverpool contract". www.liverpoolfc.com. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  14. ↑ "What Jayden Danns did left Ibrahima Konate stunned after returning to Liverpool training". Liverpool Echo. 22 November 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  15. ↑ Gorst, Paul (12 January 2025). "Arne Slot warns Federico Chiesa as 'lucky' Rio Ngumoha Liverpool training break revealed". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  16. ↑ Markham, Carl (28 January 2025). "Liverpool name players for Champions League finale - and leave eight stars at home". The Independent. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "PSV VS. LIVERPOOL". Soccerway. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  18. ↑ "SAFC confirm Jayden Danns loan signing". www.safc.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  19. ↑ Pearce, James (20 April 2025). "Liverpool loanee Jayden Danns ruled out of Sunderland's promotion push". The New York Times.
  20. ↑ "Liverpool could have FIVE loanees out for the season after Danns blow". 12 April 2025.
  21. ↑ Evans, Gregg (10 October 2023). "How Liverpool sign young players – and why this summer's recruits are so exciting". The Athletic. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  22. ↑ Gibson, Thomas (5 September 2025). "Report: England MU20s 1-2 Italy". England Football. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  23. ↑ Vegas, Paul (23 April 2023). "Son of a gun Jayden Danns scores twice in Liverpool U18 draw". Tribal Football. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  24. ↑ Iles, Marc (23 January 2015). "Bolton Wanderers star Neil Danns hopes to be playing unhappy families because kids are Liverpool fans". The Bolton News. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
    "Neil Danns relishing Wanderers' Liverpool cup clash". Bolton Wanderers F.C. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  25. ↑ "Neil Danns". Dame Kelly Holmes Trust. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  26. ↑ Iles, Marc (26 October 2013). "Bolton Wanderers loan ace Neil Danns is on song". The Bolton News. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  27. ↑ McNulty, Phil (25 February 2024). "Chelsea 0–1 Liverpool". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
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