Burton Albion

2025–26 season
Owner	Nordic Football Group
Chairman	Wouter Gudde (Interim)
Manager	Gary Bowyer
Stadium	Pirelli Stadium
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The 2025–26 season is the 76th season in the history ofBurton Albion Football Club and their eighth consecutive season inLeague One. In addition to thedomestic league, the club would also participate in theFA Cup, theEFL Cup, and theEFL Trophy.

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2025	CF	Jake Beesley	Blackpool	Undisclosed	[1]
30 June 2025	GK	Jordan Amissah	Ross County		[2]
1 July 2025[a]	CF	Fábio Tavares	Coventry City	Free	[3]
1 July 2025[b]	LB	Dylan Williams	Chelsea		[4]
10 July 2025	CB	Toby Sibbick	Wigan Athletic	Undisclosed	[5]
25 July 2025	RB	Kyran Lofthouse	Barnsley		[6]
30 July 2025	RW	Tyrese Shade	Eastleigh		[7]
1 September 2025	CDM	George Evans	Wrexham	Free	[8]
	CB	Alex Hartridge	Wycombe Wanderers	Undisclosed	[9]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
26 July 2025	CF	Rumarn Burrell	Queens Park Rangers	Undisclosed	[10]
30 July 2025		Danilo Orsi	AFC Wimbledon		[11]

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
23 June 2025	CM	JJ McKiernan	Lincoln City	31 May 2026	[12]
13 August 2025	LB	Sebastian Revan	Wrexham		[13][14][15]
29 August 2025	GK	Bradley Collins	Coventry City		[16]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
2 July 2025	CB	Alex Bannon	Derry City	30 June 2026	[17]
31 July 2025	LW	Tomas Kalinauskas	Kalmar	30 November 2025	[18]
2 August 2025	CF	Jack Cooper-Love	Roda JC Kerkrade	31 May 2026	[19]
22 August 2025	CB	Geraldo Bajrami	Crawley Town		[20]
17 October 2025	CM	Ciaran Gilligan	Aldershot Town		[21]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	LW	Mason Bennett	Harrogate Town	1 July 2025	[22][23]
	CF	Jón Daði Böðvarsson	Selfoss		[24][25]
	GK	Max Crocombe	Millwall		[26]
	CF	Dylan Scott	Stalybridge Celtic		[22][27]
	CF	Jack Stretton	Morecambe		[22][28]
	CB	Ryan Sweeney	Mansfield Town		[29]
	CDM	Elliot Watt	Motherwell		[30]
	CB	Cameron Gilbert	Coleshill Town	30 July 2025	[22]
	RM	Anthony Forde			[22]
	CB	Toby Oakes			[22]
21 July 2025	RW	Billy Bodin	Swindon Town	21 July 2025	[31]
22 August 2025	CM	Ben Whitfield	Barrow	22 August 2025	[32]
7 November 2025	GK	Harry Isted	Forest Green Rovers	7 November 2025	[33]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contract until	Ref.
18 June 2025	CM	Kegs Chauke	30 June 2027	[34]
19 June 2025	CB	Finn Delap		[35]
24 June 2025	GK	Kamil Dudek		[36]
22 October 2025	CF	Sulyman Krubally	30 June 2027[a][b]	[37]

On 9 June, Burton Albion announced their first pre-season fixture, againstDerby County for theBass Charity Vase.^[38] A day later, two further friendlies were confirmed againstAlfreton Town andSheffield United.^[39][40] A fourth fixture was shortly added after, againstBirmingham City.^[41] On 17 June, a fifth friendly was confirmed, againstChesterfield.^[42]

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On 26 June, theLeague One fixtures were announced.^[44]

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Burton were drawn at home to eitherSt Albans City in the first round^[52][53] and away toBrackley Town in the second round.^[54][55]

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Burton were drawn away toTranmere Rovers in the first round^[56][57] and at home toLincoln City in the second round.^[58]

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Burton were drawn againstChesterfield,Crewe Alexandra andLiverpool U21 in the group stage.^[60]

As of match played 15 November 2025

Players with no appearances are not included on the list

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		League One		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	ENG	Udoka Godwin-Malife	18	1	14+1	1	1+0	0	0+0	0	1+1	0
3	DF	SCO	Jack Armer	19	0	12+3	0	0+1	0	1+0	0	1+1	0
4	MF	RSA	Kegs Chauke	15	0	10+2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
6	DF	UGA	Toby Sibbick	16	0	10+3	0	1+0	0	0+2	0	0+0	0
7	MF	NIR	JJ McKiernan	14	0	9 +3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
8	MF	ENG	Charlie Webster	18	6	16+0	4	1+0	2	1+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	ENG	Jake Beesley	16	5	16+0	5	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	FW	SKN	Tyrese Shade	18	4	10+4	2	1+0	2	1+1	0	0+1	0
11	FW	POR	Fábio Tavares	19	5	6 +7	2	1+0	2	1+1	0	3+0	1
12	MF	ENG	George Evans	11	0	10+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
14	DF	USA	Nick Akoto	7	0	0 +2	0	1+0	0	2+0	0	2+0	0
15	DF	ENG	Kyran Lofthouse	18	1	15+0	1	1+0	0	0+1	0	1+0	0
16	DF	ENG	Alex Hartridge	14	1	11+0	1	1+0	0	0+0	0	1+1	0
17	MF	ENG	Jack Hazlehurst	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
18	DF	ENG	Jasper Moon	8	0	4 +2	0	0+1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
19	DF	ENG	Dylan Williams	12	0	4 +5	0	0+0	0	2+0	0	1+0	0
20	DF	ENG	Jason Sraha	4	0	0 +3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
21	GK	GHA	Jordan Amissah	6	0	5 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
22	FW	SWE	Julian Larsson	9	1	0 +5	0	0+0	0	2+0	0	2+0	1
23	DF	ENG	Sebastian Revan	11	0	7 +2	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+1	0
24	GK	ENG	Bradley Collins	10	0	10+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
25	MF	IRL	Ciaran Gilligan	3	0	0 +1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
26	DF	ENG	Finn Delap	11	0	6 +1	0	0+0	0	2+0	0	2+0	0
27	GK	POL	Kamil Dudek	6	0	1 +0	0	1+0	0	2+0	0	2+0	0
33	DF	ALB	Geraldo Bajrami	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
34	MF	ENG	Ben Whitfield	1	1	0 +0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1	0+0	0
38	FW	ENG	Jack Newall	5	0	0 +0	0	0+1	0	2+0	0	1+1	0
39	DF	ENG	Josh Taroni	8	0	0 +2	0	1+0	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
40	DF	ENG	Bodi Thistleton	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
41	FW	ENG	Sulyman Krubally	8	0	0 +3	0	0+1	0	0+1	0	1+2	0
48	MF	ENG	Daniel Matthews	2	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+1	0
49	MF	ENG	Matty Lay	2	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+2	0
50	FW	ENG	Jamal Williamson	3	0	0 +2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
52	DF	ENG	William Earley	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
53	FW	ENG	Robbie Meakin	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
54	MF	ENG	Samuel Oyemade	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
55	MF	ENG	Kairo Piper	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
56	FW	ENG	Zac Scutt	1	1	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1

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