 Byfield in 2011 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Darren Asherton Byfield[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 29 September 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Sutton Coldfield, England[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Walsall (first-team coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Aston Villa | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2000 | Aston Villa | 7 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | → Preston North End (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 1999 | → Northampton Town (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1999 | → Cambridge United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Blackpool (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Walsall | 77 | (13) |
| 2001 | → Rotherham United (loan) | 3 | (2) |
| 2002–2004 | Rotherham United | 65 | (20) |
| 2004 | Sunderland | 17 | (5) |
| 2004–2006 | Gillingham | 67 | (19) |
| 2006–2007 | Millwall | 31 | (16) |
| 2007–2008 | Bristol City | 33 | (8) |
| 2008–2009 | Doncaster Rovers | 15 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 2009 | Oldham Athletic | 3 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Walsall | 55 | (12) |
| 2012 | Solihull Moors | 2 | (0) |
| 2012 | AFC Telford United | 7 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Tamworth | 31 | (4) |
| 2014–2016 | Solihull Moors | 31 | (4) |
| 2016–2017 | Redditch United | 6 | (0) |
| Total | 476 | (107) | |
| International career | |||
| 2003 | Jamaica | 6 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2016–2017 | Redditch United | ||
| 2018 | Stratford Town | ||
| 2018–2019 | Walsall Wood | ||
| 2019 | Alvechurch | ||
| 2020 | Walsall Wood | ||
| 2022–2023 | Crawley Town (caretaker) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Darren Asherton Byfield (born 29 September 1976) is a former professional footballer. He is currently a first-team coach at Walsall.
Byfield won six caps for Jamaica in 2003, and has scored 110 goals in 484 appearances across all domestic competitions so far in his football career. He was briefly married to pop star Jamelia, with whom he had one child.
He began his career with Aston Villa in 1997, and enjoyed loan spells with Preston North End, Northampton Town, Cambridge United, and Blackpool, before winning a move to Walsall in June 2000. He scored the winning goal in the 2001 Second Division play-off final, and then made a £50,000 move to Rotherham United in March 2002. He was traded to Sunderland in February 2004, and then moved on to Gillingham five months later. He transferred to Millwall in June 2006, before joining Bristol City in August 2007. He moved on to Doncaster Rovers in July 2008, before linking up with Oldham Athletic in August 2009, having played on loan at the club during the previous season. His stay at Oldham lasted only a handful of games, after which he returned to Walsall. He left the Football League in June 2011 following an injury-hit 2010–11 campaign. He joined non-league Solihull Moors for a brief spell in March 2012, before moving on to AFC Telford United six months later. He joined Tamworth in January 2013.
- ^ "Darren Byfield". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2008). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008–09. Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8.