Ivan Toney

Ivan Toney
Toney in 2021
Personal information
Full name Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-16) 16 March 1996 (age 28)[2]
Place of birth Northampton, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[3]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Al-Ahli
Number 99
Youth career
0000–2012 Northampton Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Northampton Town 53 (11)
2015–2018 Newcastle United 2 (0)
2015Barnsley (loan) 6 (1)
2016Barnsley (loan) 9 (0)
2016–2017Shrewsbury Town (loan) 19 (6)
2017Scunthorpe United (loan) 15 (6)
2017–2018Wigan Athletic (loan) 24 (4)
2018Scunthorpe United (loan) 16 (8)
2018–2020 Peterborough United 76 (40)
2020–2024 Brentford 128 (67)
2024– Al-Ahli 5 (3)
International career
2023– England 6 (1)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  England
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up 2024 Germany Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:57, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney (born 16 March 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli and the England national team.

Toney became the youngest player to represent Northampton Town when he made his first-team debut in 2012. He scored 13 goals in 60 matches in all competitions before joining Newcastle United in 2015. In his first season at Newcastle, he had two successive loan spells with Barnsley, winning the 2015–16 Football League Trophy and the 2016 League One play-offs. He spent the next two years on loan in League One with Shrewsbury Town, Scunthorpe United, and Wigan Athletic.

In 2018, Toney joined Peterborough United permanently for an undisclosed fee, where he was named both League One top scorer and Player of the Season in 2019–20. He then signed for Brentford, where his record-setting 31 goals scored during the 2020–21 season helped the club earn promotion to the Premier League. Toney received his first call-up for the England national team in 2022 before making his debut in 2023.

In May 2023, after his 20 goals helped Brentford to a top-half finish, he was found guilty of 232 breaches of the Football Association's betting rules and banned from football for eight months, until 17 January 2024.

  1. ^ "Club list of registered players: As at 19th May 2019" (PDF). English Football League. p. 60. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. ^ "I. Toney: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Ivan Toney". Brentford F.C. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2022.