Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Dane Pharrell Scarlett [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 24 March 2004||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Hillingdon, London, England [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [3] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Tottenham Hotspur | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 44 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
–2020 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2020– | Tottenham Hotspur | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 34 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
2023–2024 | → Ipswich Town (loan) | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2019 | England U15 | 2 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2019 | England U16 | 1 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2021– | England U19 | 14 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | England U20 | 16 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | England U21 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC) |
Dane Pharrell Scarlett (born 24 March 2004) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
Scarlett was part of the Tottenham Under-18s team in the 2019–20 season, however, the season ended prematurely for him after a knee injury. [4] He started playing with the first team in the pre-season friendly matches in August 2020, but returned to the Under-18s at the start of the 2020–21 season. [5] [6] He scored ten goals and made three assists in eight games; [4] four goals, three of them headers, were scored in the Under-18s game on 21 November 2020 against Southampton that ended in a 7–0 win. [7] [8]
His performance led to an appearance on the bench in the Europa League game against Ludogorets Razgrad on 26 November, [9] and he made his debut for Tottenham coming on as a substitute for Lucas Moura in this game. [10] At the age of 16 years and 247 days, he became the youngest player to have appeared in a senior first team competitive game for Tottenham, beating the previous record held by John Bostock. [11] [12] The record lasted until 10 January 2021 when Alfie Devine made his debut at the age of 16 years 163 days. [13] On 12 January 2021, he scored five goals for the U18 team in the 6–2 win against Newport County in the FA Youth Cup. [14] Scarlett made his Premier League debut, coming off the bench during stoppage time against West Bromwich Albion, on 7 February 2021. Tottenham manager José Mourinho said, "I wanted to be the one to put him on in a Premier League match. Because I know that he will be somebody in a few years." [15] On 24 February, he became the youngest player to make an assist in the Europa League since Kylian Mbappé in a 4–0 win against Wolfsberger AC, teeing up Carlos Vinicius for the goal. [16] On 28 March 2021, Scarlett officially signed his first professional contract with Tottenham Hotspur. The contract for the young forward runs until 2023, having been triggered following his 17th birthday.[ citation needed ]
Scarlett made his first start for Tottenham on 19 August 2021 in the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League competition playing against F.C. Paços de Ferreira, which ended in a 1–0 defeat. [17] [18] After the 2021–22 season finished Scarlett signed a new contract with Tottenham until 2026. [19]
On 27 July 2022, Scarlett was loaned to League One side Portsmouth ahead of the 2022–23 League One season. [20] [21] He made his first appearance for the club on 5 August 2022 in a 2–0 win against Cheltenham, and scored his first professional goal in a 1–0 win against Port Vale on 27 August. [22] [23]
On 31 August 2023, it was announced that Scarlett had signed a new contract with Tottenham until 2027 and that he had joined Championship side Ipswich Town on loan until the end of the 2023–24 season. [24] On 27 December 2023, Scarlett was recalled from his loan due to lack of playing time. [25] Scarlett returned to the Spurs team for their third round FA Cup game against Burnley. He was brought on in the 83rd minute as a substitution for Richarlison. [26] Spurs would go on to win the game 1–0 with a strike from Pedro Porro.
Born in England, Scarlett is of Jamaican descent. [27] He made one appearance for the England national under-16 football team in August 2019, playing against Denmark where he scored both goals in a 2–0 win. [28]
On 2 September 2021, Scarlett made his debut for the England U19s and scored during a 2–0 victory over Italy at St. George's Park. [29] On 17 June 2022, Scarlett was included in the squad for the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. [30] He scored twice in a group stage match against Serbia. [31] Scarlett started in the final as England won the tournament with a 3–1 extra time victory over Israel on 1 July 2022. [32] [33]
On 21 September 2022, Scarlett made his England U20 debut as a substitute during a 3–0 victory over Chile at the Pinatar Arena. [34]
On 10 May 2023, Scarlett was included in the England squad for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup. [35] [36] He scored the winning goal in their opening group game against Tunisia and also played in their round of sixteen elimination against Italy. [37] [38]
On 11 September 2023, Scarlett made his England U21 debut as a substitute during a 3–0 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification win away to Luxembourg. [39]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Tottenham Hotspur | 2020–21 [40] | Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
2021–22 [41] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | |||
2022–23 [42] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |||
2023–24 [43] | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
Total | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
Portsmouth (loan) | 2022–23 [42] | League One | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 [lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 40 | 6 | |
Ipswich Town (loan) | 2023–24 [43] | Championship | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
Total | 52 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 69 | 6 |
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