Dylan Gavin
{{Short description|Irish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
|name = Dylan Gavin
|image =
|caption =
|fullname = Dylan John Gavin{{Cite web |date=23 June 2020 |title=Club list of registered players: As at 23rd June 2020: Charlton Athletic |url=https://www.efl.com/siteassets/image/202021/efl-professional-retain-list---2019-20.pdf |access-date=20 November 2020 |page=9 }}
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|2003|1|16|df=y}}
|birth_place = Athlone, Ireland
|height =
|position = Striker
|currentclub = Elgin City
|clubnumber = 16
|youthyears1 = 2016–2017
|youthclubs1 = Athlone Town
|youthyears2 = 2017–2020
|youthclubs2 = Charlton Athletic
|years1 = 2020–2023
|clubs1 = Charlton Athletic
|caps1 = 0
|goals1 = 0
|years2 = 2022
|clubs2 = → Billericay Town (loan)
|caps2 = 16
|goals2 = 6
|years3 = 2022–2023
|clubs3 = → Tonbridge Angels (loan)
|caps3 = 12
|goals3 = 2
|years4 = 2023
|clubs4 = → Welling United (loan)
|caps4 = 5
|goals4 = 0
|years5 = 2023
|clubs5 = → Dulwich Hamlet (loan)
|caps5 = 4
|goals5 = 0
|years6 = 2023
|clubs6 = → Welling United (loan)
|caps6 = 4
|goals6 = 0
|years7 = 2023–2024
|clubs7 = Athlone Town
|caps7 = 20
|goals7 = 2
|years8 = 2024–
|clubs8 = Elgin City
|caps8 = 19
|goals8 = 5
|club-update = 17:10, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
}}
Dylan John Gavin (born 16 January 2003) is an Irish footballer who plays as a striker for {{Scottish football updater|ElginCty}} club Elgin City.
Career
=Early career=
Gavin started his schoolboy football days in Ireland, with Athlonetown club St Peters FC. At the age of 14, he moved to St Francis; both clubs playing in the Athlone district schoolboy/girls league. It was at this time Dylan was selected for the Athlone District Emerging Talent Programme (E.T.P.), this allowed for his selection into the Athlone Schoolboys Kennedy cup team.
Gavin was also a very talented Gealic football player and played his club football at Athlone GAA. Whilst playing Gaelic football with local secondary school The Marist College, Dylan went on to win a junior Leinster GAA schools title.
Coming to the end of his time at local school football. Dylan made his move to the Airtricity League of Ireland with Athlone Town In the 2016/17 season he went on to win the Airtricity League of Ireland title at under 15 against St Patrick's Athletic Gavin scored a rebound from the penalty spot to equalize at 1-1 and went on to score the winner in the last minute of the game earning himself Man of the match and a major junior title with Athlone Town FC. He was now developing a serious eye for the goal and proven to have great power and accuracy when it came to free-kicks.
=Charlton Athletic=
Gavin was capped for the Republic of Ireland national football team under 16s but great interest in the young man came in from London side Charlton Athletic.
Due to strong interest in what Charlton Athletic had to offer. Dylan departed Athlone Town for a two-year scholarship with Charlton. Throughout his early days he made a very good impression and with his great vision, strength and proven scoring ability he became a regular name on the score sheet for the club at youth level. In 2021, Dylan was offered his first Professional contract with the Charlton Athletic Academy professional player development.
He made his debut for Charlton Athletic on 10 November 2020 in a 3–1 EFL Trophy victory over Leyton Orient coming on as a second-half substitute.{{Cite web |date=10 November 2020 |title=PAPA JOHN'S TROPHY REPORT : Charlton 3 Leyton Orient 1 |url=https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5faafc9951278/papa-johns-trophy-report-charlton-leyton-orient |access-date=14 November 2020 |website=www.cafc.co.uk |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Website|language=en}}
On 13 May 2023, it was announced that Gavin would leave the club when his contract expired in June.{{Cite news |title= RETAINED LIST : SQUAD UPDATE |url=https://www.charltonafc.com/news/retained-list-squad-update |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Site |access-date=13 May 2023}}
==Billericay Town (loan)==
On 21 January 2022, Gavin joined non-league Billericay Town on a one month loan.{{cite web |title=Squad Update! And finally, please welcome Dylan Gavin! The forward joins from @CAFCofficial on a 1-month loan |url=https://twitter.com/BTFC/status/1484567714039533571 |publisher=Billericay Town Official Twitter Feed |access-date=21 January 2022}}
On 22 February 2022, it was confirmed that Gavin's loan had been extended for a further month.{{cite web |title=We're delighted to announce the extension of Dylan Gavin's loan from @CAFCofficial for another month!|url=https://twitter.com/BTFC/status/1496065994493681670 |publisher=Billericay Town Official Twitter Feed |access-date=22 February 2022}}
On 24 March 2022, it was confirmed that Gavin's loan had been extended until the end of the season.{{cite web |title=We're delighted to confirm that @dylan_gavin9's loan from Charlton has been extended until the end of the season!|url=https://twitter.com/BTFC/status/1507065561548738566 |publisher=Billericay Town Official Twitter Feed |access-date=24 March 2022}}
On 12 April 2022, Gavin scored the winning goal for Billericay Town in the Essex Senior Cup final giving his side a 1-0 victory over Bowers & Pitsea.{{cite web|url=https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/gavin-screamer-sees-billericay-beat-205224789.html|title=Gavin screamer sees Billericay beat Bowers in Essex Senior Cup final|publisher=Yahoo Sport|date=12 April 2022|accessdate=12 April 2022}}
==Tonbridge Angels (loan)==
On 19 August 2022, Gavin joined his second non-league side, Tonbridge Angels, until January 2023.{{cite web |title=DYLAN GAVIN JOINS TONBRIDGE ANGELS ON LOAN|url=https://www.charltonafc.com/news/dylan-gavin-joins-tonbridge-angels-loan |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Site |access-date=19 August 2022}}
==Welling United (loan)==
On 14 January 2023, Gavin joined his third non-league side by signing for Welling United until 11 February 2023.{{cite web |title=DYLAN GAVIN JOINS WELLING ON LOAN|url=https://www.charltonafc.com/news/dylan-gavin-joins-welling-loan |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Site |access-date=14 January 2023}}
==Dulwich Hamlet (loan)==
On 21 February 2023, Gavin joined his fourth non-league side by signing for Dulwich Hamlet until 20 March 2023.{{cite news |title=DYLAN GAVIN JOINS DULWICH HAMLET ON LOAN
|url=https://www.charltonafc.com/news/dylan-gavin-joins-dulwich-hamlet-loan |access-date=21 February 2023 |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Site |date=21 February 2023}}
==Welling United (second loan)==
On 24 March 2023, Gavin re-joined Welling United for his fifth non-league loan.{{cite web |title=DYLAN GAVIN REJOINS WELLING UNITED ON LOAN|url=https://www.charltonafc.com/news/dylan-gavin-rejoins-welling-united-loan |publisher=Charlton Athletic Official Site |access-date=24 March 2023}}
=Athlone Town=
On 21 July 2023, Gavin returned to Athlone Town, the club he spent a year as a youth player.{{cite news |title=Dylan Gavin returns to The Town!! |url=https://www.athlonetownafc.ie/articles/97542 |access-date=22 July 2023 |publisher=Athlone Town AFC |date=21 July 2023}}
=Elgin City=
Career statistics
{{updated|match played 18 January 2025}}{{soccerway|dylan-gavin/646665|accessdate=14 November 2020}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | ||||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|EFL Cup !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| rowspan="4"|Charlton Athletic
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1{{Efn|One appearance in the EFL Trophy}} | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021–22
|League One |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022–23
|League One |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| colspan="2"|Charlton Athletic total
!0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Billericay Town (loan)
|16 | 6 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 2{{Efn|Two appearances in the Essex Senior Cup}} | 3 | 18 | 9 | |||
| Tonbridge Angels (loan)
|National League South |12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1{{Efn|One appearance in the FA Trophy}} | 0 | 13 | 2 | ||
| Welling United (loan)
|National League South |5 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Dulwich Hamlet (loan)
|National League South |4 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Welling United (loan)
|National League South |4 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 4 | 0 | ||||
| rowspan="3"|Athlone Town
|2023 |League of Ireland First Division |15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 15 | 2 | ||
| 2024
|League of Ireland First Division |5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 5 | 0 | ||
| colspan="2"|Athlone Town total
!20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | |
| Elgin City
|19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2{{Efn|Two appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup}} | 1 | 28 | 7 | |
| colspan="3"|Career total
!80 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 93 | 20 |
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Honours
References
{{reflist}}
● https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2021/02/07/i-just-wanted-to-go-over-and-follow-my-dream }
● https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/jubilant-scenes-as-athlone-strike-late-to-win-inaugural-under-15-title-36353242 }
● http://athlonegaaclub.com
● https://www.stfrancisfc.ie
● http://www.soccer-ireland.com/westmeath-football-clubs/st-peters-fc
External links
- {{Soccerbase}}
{{Elgin City F.C. squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gavin, Dylan}}
Category:Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Category:Billericay Town F.C. players
Category:Tonbridge Angels F.C. players
Category:Welling United F.C. players
Category:Dulwich Hamlet F.C. players
Category:Elgin City F.C. players
Category:Association footballers from Athlone
Category:National League (English football) players