Kim Grant (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kimberley Tyrone Grant | ||
| Date of birth | 25 September 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–1991 | Charlton Athletic | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1996 | Charlton Athletic | 123 | (18) |
| 1996–1997 | Luton Town | 34 | (5) |
| 1997 | → Millwall (loan) | 3 | (3) |
| 1997–1999 | Millwall | 52 | (8) |
| 1998–1999 | → Notts County (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1999–2000 | KFC Lommel | 19 | (3) |
| 2000–2001 | F.C. Marco | 2 | (0) |
| 2001 | Scunthorpe United | 4 | (1) |
| 2001–2003 | Yeovil Town | 33 | (6) |
| 2003–2004 | Imortal Albufeira | 12 | (6) |
| 2004 | Sarawak FA | 7 | (3) |
| 2005 | Shonan Bellmare | 0 | (0) |
| 2005 | Gravesend & Northfleet | 7 | (1) |
| 2006 | AFC Wimbledon | 4 | (0) |
| 2006 | Sengkang Punggol FC | 19 | (10) |
| 2007 | Geylang United FC | 8 | (3) |
| 2008 | Woking | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 333 | (68) | |
| National team | |||
| 1996–1997 | Ghana | 7 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2008 | Woking | ||
| 2009– | F.C. Takoradi | ||
| 2014– | KG-IFA | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kimberley Tyrone "Kim" Grant (born 25 September 1972) is a former professional footballer and is the Sporting director of KG-IFA. Grant has been involved in professional football for over 24 years, playing in European and Asian leagues.
Born in Sekondi-Takoradi, Grant started his career at Charlton Athletic in their youth system and he signed his first professional contract in March 1991. He went on to make 155 appearances spanning over nine years and scoring 25 goals. He later made appearances for Charlton against Manchester United and Liverpool in the FA Cup and scored a 20-yard curler to beat David James in a 2–1 defeat to in 1996.
In March 1996,Luton Town paid £250,000 to bring him to Kenilworth Road. He spent one and half years at Luton, making 43 appearances and scoring eight goals. Following a loan spell in which he scored four goals in five appearances, Grant moved to Millwall for £185,000 in September 1997 and went on to make 57 appearances, scoring nine goals. He was on loan at Notts County from December 1998 to February 1999, where he made six appearances and scored one goal.
Grant left Millwall in 1999 to play in the Belgium Premier League with KFC Lommel, commanding a transfer fee of £65,000. After one season with Lommel, during which he scored three goals in 19 league appearances, he left and played in the Portuguese second division for F.C. Marco in the 2000–01 season, making two league appearances.
Grant returned to England in August 2001 after signing for Scunthorpe United, making five appearances and scoring one goal, before signing with Yeovil Town in October. In his first year, Yeovil won the FA Trophy cup and finished second in the Football Conference. In his second year, Yeovil were crowned champions of the Football Conference, winning promotion to the Football League.
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