Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nathan Jay Young-Coombes[1] | ||
Date of birth | 15 January 2003 | ||
Place of birth | Sutton, England[2] | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
2010–2017 | Crystal Palace | ||
2017–2019 | Chelsea | ||
2019–2021 | Rangers | ||
2021–2022 | Brentford | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2022–2024 | Brentford | 1 | (0) |
2022–2023 | → AFC Wimbledon (loan) | 11 | (3) |
International career | |||
2017–2018 | England U15 | 6 | (2) |
2018 | England U16 | 1 | (0) |
2019 | England U17 | 3 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC) |
Nathan Jay Young-Coombes (born 15 January 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward.
Young-Coombes is a product of the Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Rangers academies and he began his professional career with Brentford in 2021. Though he managed one Premier League appearance, he was confined to B team football until his release in 2024. Young-Coombes was capped by England at youth level.
A forward, Young-Coombes joined the Crystal Palace Academy at the age of seven.[4] He moved on to the Chelsea Academy in 2017 and to the Rangers Academy in February 2019.[5][6] During nearly 2+1⁄2 years at Auchenhowie, Young-Coombes won the 2019 Al Kass International Cup and 2018–19 Scottish Youth Cup with the youth teams and progressed into the B team.[7][8][9] He was released when his contract expired at the end of the 2020–21 season.[10]
On 9 June 2021, Young-Coombes signed a three-year contract, with an option of a further year, with the B team at newly-promoted Premier League club Brentford.[9] He transferred for an undisclosed fee, with the contract effective 1 July 2021.[9] Prolific goalscoring for the B team saw Young-Coombes called into the first team squad during the 2021–22 season and he remained an unused substitute during eight matches,[11][12] before finally making his senior debut as a late substitute for Mathias Jensen after 87 minutes of a 3–0 Premier League win over Southampton on 7 May 2022.[13] He was a part of the B team's 2021–22 London Senior Cup-winning squad and his 34 B team goals were recognised with the Brentford B Player of the Year award.[14][15]
On 29 July 2022, Young-Coombes joined League Two club AFC Wimbledon on a season-long loan.[16] During an injury-affected spell that was ended early on 20 January 2023,[17][18][19] he made 13 appearances and scored three goals.[20] Young-Coombes returned to match play with the B team on 20 March 2023.[21] He made two appearances during the latter stages of the team's 2022–23 Premier League Cup campaign and scored in the 2–0 Final victory over Blackburn Rovers.[11][22]
Young-Coombes made a second-half substitute appearance during Brentford's opening 2023–24 first team pre-season friendly.[23] An ankle injury saw Young-Coombes miss nearly four mid-season months and he failed to win a call into a first team matchday squad during the 2023–24 season.[11][24] Young-Coombes was released when his contract expired at the end of the 2023–24 season.[25]
Young-Coombes was capped by England at U15, U16 and U17 level.[11][26]
Young-Coombes attended Woodcote High School and Strathallan School.[4][27]
Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Rangers U20 | 2019–20[28] | ― | 4[c] | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Brentford | 2021–22[13] | Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ― | 1 | 0 | |
AFC Wimbledon (loan) | 2022–23[20] | League Two | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 13 | 3 |
Career total | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 4 |
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