Deon Burton
Burton in 2006
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Deon John Burton | ||
| Date of birth | 25 October 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Reading, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1994 | Portsmouth | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1997 | Portsmouth | 62 | (10) |
| 1996–1997 | → Cardiff City (loan) | 5 | (2) |
| 1997–2002 | Derby County | 125 | (25) |
| 1998 | → Barnsley (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Stoke City (loan) | 12 | (2) |
| 2002 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 6 | (3) |
| 2002–2004 | Portsmouth | 10 | (1) |
| 2003 | → Walsall (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2003 | → Swindon Town (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | Brentford | 40 | (10) |
| 2005–2006 | Rotherham United | 24 | (12) |
| 2006–2009 | Sheffield Wednesday | 116 | (24) |
| 2008–2009 | → Charlton Athletic (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Charlton Athletic | 52 | (17) |
| 2010–2012 | Gabala | 49 | (15) |
| 2012–2013 | Gillingham | 40 | (12) |
| 2013–2015 | Scunthorpe United | 34 | (6) |
| 2014 | → York City (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2015 | Eastleigh | 12 | (2) |
| 2015 | Brackley Town | 4 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Worcester City | 23 | (5) |
| Total | 632 | (148) | |
| National team | |||
| 1997–2009 | Jamaica | 56 | (12) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Deon John Burton (born 25 October 1976) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. His numerous clubs in English football included Portsmouth, Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday. He represented Jamaica internationally, including at the 1998 World Cup, and was named Jamaican Sportsman of the Year in 1997.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, Burton began his professional career with Portsmouth, with whom he made his debut in the 1993–94 season, playing in two games. Burton would play intermittently for Portsmouth over the next three seasons and scored the goal that kept the club in the First Division in a 1–0 final day win against Huddersfield Town in May 1996.
In 1997, former Portsmouth manager Jim Smith signed Burton for Premier League club Derby County in a £1 million move.
Burton would again struggle to establish a starting role at Derby, playing intermittently there with loans at other clubs including Stoke in February 2002, and a second spell at Portsmouth, which began in August 2002. He returned to Derby in September having broken a bone in his foot, but later signed for Portsmouth in December 2002 for a fee rising to £250,000 and Portsmouth were promoted at the end of the season. Burton stayed shortly at Portsmouth, but, unable to establish a starting role, was loaned to Walsall and Swindon Town, where he scored once against Wycombe Wanderers. In July 2004 he signed for Brentford, playing for them in the 2004–05 campaign and helping the club to the League One play-off semi-finals against Sheffield Wednesday as their top scorer.
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