Darren Potter
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Potter playing for Sheffield Wednesday in 2010. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Darren Michael Potter | ||
| Date of birth | 21 December 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1999 | Everton | ||
| 1999–2001 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| 2001–2003 | Liverpool | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | Liverpool | 2 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Southampton (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 21 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 35 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 2009–2011 | Sheffield Wednesday | 79 | (6) |
| 2011–2017 | Milton Keynes Dons | 229 | (9) |
| 2017–2019 | Rotherham United | 17 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Tranmere Rovers | 12 | (0) |
| 2020 | Altrincham | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 422 | (17) | |
| International career | |||
| Republic of Ireland U21 | |||
| 2007–2008 | Republic of Ireland | 5 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Darren Michael Potter (born 21 December 1984) is a former professional footballer. A midfielder, he made 502 league and cup appearances in a 16-year career in the Premier League and English Football League. Born in England, he won five caps for the Republic of Ireland.
He is currently a First Team Coach with EFL League Two club Milton Keynes Dons, a club he made 267 appearances for as a player.
Potter began his career at Liverpool, making his senior debut in a UEFA Champions League qualifier in August 2004 in the first of his three appearances in that season's competition, which Liverpool would eventually win. He played a total of 17 games for Liverpool. However, he featured just twice in the Premier League and spent 2006 on loan at Southampton and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He joined Wolves on a £250,000 transfer in January 2007. A first-team regular in the 2006–07 season, he lost his place the following season and spent the second half of the 2008–09 season on loan at Sheffield Wednesday before joining the club permanently for an undisclosed fee in July 2009. Wednesday were relegated out of the Championship in 2010, and Potter left the club by mutual consent in June 2011.
Potter signed with Milton Keynes Dons in June 2011 and would be named the club's Player of the Year and on the PFA Team of the Year for the 2011–12 season. Promotion out of League One was secured with a second-place finish at the end of his fourth season at the club. However, they would be relegated at the end of their maiden season in the Championship. He left the club at the end of the 2016–17 season and joined Rotherham United in June 2017. He suffered an Achilles injury six months into his stay at Rotherham, which kept him out of action until the last game of the 2018–19 campaign. He spent the 2019–20 season with Tranmere Rovers and announced his retirement whilst at Altrincham in November 2020.