Kris Commons
Commons playing for Celtic in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Kristian Arran Commons | ||
| Date of birth | 30 August 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Mansfield, England | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Celtic | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–2001 | Stoke City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2004 | Stoke City | 41 | (5) |
| 2004–2008 | Nottingham Forest | 138 | (32) |
| 2008–2011 | Derby County | 80 | (21) |
| 2011– | Celtic | 147 | (64) |
| 2016–2017 | → Hibernian (loan) | 5 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2013 | Scotland | 12 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 February 2013 |
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Kristian Arran "Kris" Commons (born 30 August 1983) is a footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Celtic.
Commons started his career at Stoke City and made his debut in 2000. After four years with the club he rejected a new contract and signed for Nottingham Forest on a free transfer. He made over 150 appearances for Forest in four years there, and helped them win promotion to the Championship in his final season. He then moved to Derby, again on a free transfer. Injury problems curtailed his goalscoring in his first two years there, but in his final season there he had scored 13 goals by the time of the mid-season transfer window.
In January 2011, Commons moved to Celtic for £300,000. Since then he has won five Scottish League Championships, two Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup. He was the top goalscorer in Scotland in season 2013–14 with 32 goals, and that same season won both the PFA Scotland and Scottish Football Writers' Association Player of the Year awards. Commons fell out of favour at Celtic during 2016 and was briefly loaned to Hibernian.
Commons was born in England but qualified to play for Scotland as his grandmother was born in Dundee. He made his Scotland debut in 2008, and went on to win twelve caps.
Commons signed a professional contract with Stoke City on his 17th birthday and made his debut in a 3–2 Football League Trophy defeat away to Blackpool on 16 October 2001. However, shortly after making his first team debut, he was out injured for a year due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. Commons managed to come back from this and made his league debut the following season on 10 August 2002 in a scoreless draw against Sheffield Wednesday. Commons won praise from his manager Steve Cotterill who stated "Kris is a great prospect with a fantastic left foot", adding "If he keeps working hard he has a great future." His first goal came in a 1–1 draw against Norwich City on 26 August 2002. His good form and promise led to him to being offered a new contract by Stoke, but he rejected it and joined Nottingham Forest on 1 July 2004. In his time at Stoke City, Commons made a total of 46 appearances for the club in all competitions (22 of which were starts), scoring five goals.
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