Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joshua Feeney | ||
Date of birth | 6 May 2005 | ||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team |
Real Unión (on loan from Aston Villa) | ||
Youth career | |||
–2021 | Fleetwood Town | ||
2021–2024 | Aston Villa | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2024– | Aston Villa | 0 | (0) |
2024– | → Real Unión (loan) | 8 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2021 | England U16 | 2 | (1) |
2021–2022 | England U17 | 10 | (1) |
2022–2023 | England U18 | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:19, 14 October 2023 (UTC) |
Joshua Feeney (born 6 May 2005) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Real Unión, on loan from Premier League club Aston Villa. He is an England youth international. [1]
Feeney’s father Charlie Feeney was a football coach in Poulton in Lancashire, and Joshua would play football there from the age of five. [2] He attended Hodgson Academy secondary school from 2016 to 2021.
Feeney joined Fleetwood Town at 12 years old. He featured on the substitutes bench for the first team without making his debut as a 15 year-old.
Feeney joined Aston Villa from Fleetwood Town in July 2021 for an undisclosed fee. [3] In the summer of 2022 he signed his first professional contract with Aston Villa. [4] During the 2022–23 season Feeney was included in Aston Villa first-team training and made his first match day squad on the opening week of the Premier League season, being named as a substitute against Brentford in August 2022. [5] In July 2023, Feeney signed a contract extension with Aston Villa. [6]
On 1 February 2024, Feeney signed for Primera Federación club Real Unión, a sister club of Aston Villa managed by former Aston Villa U21 manager Iñigo Idiakez, on loan until the end of the season. [7] Feeney made his debut on 10 February in a 2–1 defeat to Gimnàstic de Tarragona. [8]
Eligible to play for England and Scotland, Feeney chose to represent England at youth level. [9] In 2021 he began to captain England U16s. [10] In September 2022 he won his first cap for the England U18 team. [11]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Aston Villa | 2021–22 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 [a] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
2022–23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 [a] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
2023–24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [a] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Real Unión (loan) | 2023–24 | Primera Federación | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
Career total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 |