Matthew Kilgallon
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Matthew Shaun Kilgallon | ||
| Date of birth | 8 January 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | York, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back/full back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Bradford City | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Leeds United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2007 | Leeds United | 80 | (3) |
| 2003 | → West Ham United (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Sheffield United | 107 | (4) |
| 2010–2013 | Sunderland | 23 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Middlesbrough (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Doncaster Rovers (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2013–2016 | Blackburn Rovers | 57 | (2) |
| 2016– | Bradford City | 5 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2004–2005 | England U21 | 5 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:10, 12 January 2017 (UTC). |
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Matthew Shaun Kilgallon (born 8 January 1984) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bradford City. Born in York, Kilgallon began his football career at Leeds United where he came through the youth set up before becoming a fixture in their first-team. He then moved to Sheffield United where he spent three years before moving to Sunderland. With spells on loan at West Ham, Middlesbrough and Doncaster Rovers, he has also made five appearances for the England U21s.
A product of the youth set-up at Leeds, Kilgallon first made a senior appearance for Leeds in 2004, scoring two goals that season and working his way into the England Under-21 set-up. Once Leeds had dropped to the Championship, Killa (his nickname from his teammates) began to make more appearances and held down a more regular place in the 1st eleven. In his first season in the championship, Kilgallon was mainly playing centre back with Paul Butler and Sean Gregan the main centre back partnership. Kilgallon also displaced Clarke Carlisle and Michael Duberry in the pecking order. He played a major role in the club's run through to the 2006 championship play-offs, helping them make the final. Which Leeds lost 3–0 against Watford.
Kilgallon played most of Leeds's matches of the first half of the 2006–07 season under Kevin Blackwell and new manager Dennis Wise's new look Leeds team, keeping experienced centre-backs Paul Butler, Sean Gregan and Hayden Foxe out of the team. Leeds were struggling both on and off the pitch and Kilgallon was also losing form.
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