Kyle Hurst
Personal information
Full name Kyle Christopher Hurst[1]
Date of birth (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002[2]
Place of birth Milton Keynes, England
Position(s) Winger,[3] forward[4]
Team information
Current team
 Doncaster Rovers
Number 21
Youth career
Milton Keynes Dons
20??–2020 Birmingham City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2022 Birmingham City 0 (0)
2022 → Alvechurch (loan) 4 (0)
2022– Doncaster Rovers 52 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Kyle Christopher Hurst (born 20 January 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for EFL League Two club Doncaster Rovers. He began his football career as a youngster with Milton Keynes Dons before joining Birmingham City at 16 and turning professional two years later. He had a loan spell with Southern League club Alvechurch in early 2022, but never played first-team football for Birmingham, and left the club for Doncaster Rovers in July 2022.

Club career

Birmingham City

Hurst was born in Milton Keynes,[5] and was a youth player with Milton Keynes Dons before taking up a two-year scholarship with Birmingham City in July 2018.[2][6] According to coach Steve Spooner, Hurst is "a wonderful technician. He has great dribbling skills, great receiving skills. Very attack-minded and can deliver good crosses, but he must become more consistent with his end product."[6]

On his first competitive start for Birmingham's development squad team, in September 2018, Hurst scored the second goal of a 4–0 win against Sheffield Wednesday U23.[7] He scored in the semi-final of the 2019 Professional Development League (PDL) play-offs against Ipswich Town, and started in the final, but had been substituted by the time Birmingham lost to Leeds United U23 in a penalty shoot-out.[8][9] The following season, he scored an 86th-minute winning goal that took Birmingham into the fifth round of the FA Youth Cup despite having had two players sent off; according to the report on the club's website, he "flicked the ball over an opponent, darted on into the area behind the defensive line and cracked a half-volley that went in off the post."[10] Hurst was given a first-team squad number in 2020, but a hamstring issue prevented any involvement with the matchday squad, and he signed his first professional contract, of three years with the option of a fourth, in June 2020.[3] He again helped Birmingham U23 qualify for the PDL play-offs in 2021, and played the whole of the semi-final win away to Bristol City,[11] but was an unused substitute as his side beat Sheffield United to gain promotion to Premier League 2 for 2021–22.[12]

Hurst scored four goals from 17 appearances for Birmingham's U23 team in the 2021–22 Premier League 2 season.[13] He joined Southern League Premier Division Central club Alvechurch in mid-February 2022 on loan until the end of the season.[14] He made his debut in senior football on 12 February, starting in a 1–1 draw away to Tamworth,[15] and made three more appearances before returning to his parent club.[16]

Doncaster Rovers

After a trial in which Hurst played in several pre-season friendlies for Doncaster Rovers,[17] he signed a two-year contract with the League Two club on 22 July 2022.[18] He made his club and Football League debut on the opening day of the 2022–23 season, playing 82 minutes of a goalless draw away to Bradford City before being substituted immediately after receiving a yellow card.[19] Hurst continued in the starting eleven, and scored his first senior goals in his fifth league match, a 20-yard (18 m) chip over the goalkeeper and a powerful shot high to his near post, to complete Doncaster's comeback from 1–0 down against Salford City.[20] On 1 March 2023, by which time he had seven goals from 36 appearances in all competitions, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club.[21]

Having been almost ever-present in 2022–23,[22] injury kept Hurst out of the new season until 9 September.[23][24]

Career statistics

As of match played 13 January 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup EFL Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Birmingham City 2021–22[25] Championship000000—00
Alvechurch (loan) 2021–22[16] Southern League
Premier Division Central		40——0040
Doncaster Rovers 2022–23[22] League Two45610103[lower-alpha 1]1507
2023–24[24] League Two7030002[lower-alpha 1]2122
Total 526401053629
Career total 566401053669
  1. 1 2 Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy

References

  1. ↑ "Club list of registered players" (PDF). English Football League. May 2019. p. 4. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Kyle Hurst". Birmingham City F.C. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. 1 2 "First professional deal for Blues winger Hurst". Birmingham City F.C. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "Kyle Hurst". Birmingham City F.C. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Squads – English Football League Championship 2019/2020: Birmingham City". FootballSquads. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Meet Blues' new scholars for 2018–19". Birmingham City F.C. 16 August 2018. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "Report: Blues Under-23s 4 Sheffield Wednesday Under-23s 0". Birmingham City F.C. 30 September 2018. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  8. ↑ Chapman, Joseph (3 May 2019). "Birmingham City U23s' Leeds United PDL final date confirmed". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Dick, Brian (6 May 2019). "'Gutting' Birmingham City player ratings as U23s suffer play-off final agony at Leeds United". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  10. ↑ "Report: Blues Under-18s 2 Barnsley Under-18s 1". Birmingham City F.C. 15 January 2020. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  11. ↑ "Report: Bristol City Under-23s 1 Blues Under-23s 2 (AET)". Birmingham City F.C. 14 May 2021. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  12. ↑ Dick, Brian (24 May 2021). "Blues U23s vs Sheff Utd U23s player ratings: Man City trainee sparkles as George blunts Blades". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  13. ↑ "K. Hurst". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  14. ↑ Dick, Brian (11 February 2022). "Birmingham City sanction winger loan deal". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  15. ↑ Deakin, Alan (12 February 2022). "Last minute heartache for Church". Alvechurch F.C. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  16. 1 2 "Kyle Hurst: 2021/22 season". Alvechurch F.C. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  17. ↑ Jones, Steve (18 July 2022). "Doncaster Rovers boss Gary McSheffrey hints at move for Birmingham City youngster currently on trial". Doncaster Free Press. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  18. ↑ Wobschall, Leon (22 July 2022). "Doncaster Rovers transfer latest: Rovers sign Birmingham City midfielder Kyle Hurst on two-year deal". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  19. ↑ "Bradford City – Doncaster Rovers". BBC Sport. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  20. ↑ "Doncaster 2–1 Salford: Kyle Hurst double earns comeback win for Donny". Sky Sports. 20 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  21. ↑ "Kyle Hurst: Doncaster winger signs new two-and-a-half-year deal". BBC Sport. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  22. 1 2 "Games played by Kyle Hurst in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  23. ↑ "Report: Wrexham 2 Rovers 1". Doncaster Rovers F.C. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  24. 1 2 "Games played by Kyle Hurst in 2023/2024". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  25. ↑ "Games played by Kyle Hurst in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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