Kyle Hurst

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Kyle Hurst
Personal information
Full name Kyle Christopher Hurst[1]
Date of birth (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002 (age 24)[2]
Place of birth Milton Keynes, England
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Position(s)
Team information
Current team
 Gateshead
(on loan from Doncaster Rovers)
Number 21
Youth career
Milton Keynes Dons
20??–2020 Birmingham City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2022 Birmingham City 0 (0)
2022 → Alvechurch (loan) 4 (0)
2022– Doncaster Rovers 87 (11)
2025 → Queen's Park (loan) 10 (0)
2025– → Gateshead (loan) 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 11:15, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Kyle Christopher Hurst (born 20 January 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Gateshead, on loan from EFL League One club Doncaster Rovers.

He began his football career as a youngster with Milton Keynes Dons before joining Birmingham City at 16 and turning professional two years later. He had a loan spell with Southern League club Alvechurch in early 2022, but never played first-team football for Birmingham, and left the club for Doncaster Rovers in July 2022.

Club career

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Birmingham City

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Hurst was born in Milton Keynes,[6] and was a youth player with Milton Keynes Dons before taking up a two-year scholarship with Birmingham City in July 2018.[2][7] According to coach Steve Spooner, Hurst is "a wonderful technician. He has great dribbling skills, great receiving skills. Very attack-minded and can deliver good crosses, but he must become more consistent with his end product."[7]

On his first competitive start for Birmingham's development squad team, in September 2018, Hurst scored the second goal of a 4–0 win against Sheffield Wednesday U23.[8] He scored in the semi-final of the 2019 Professional Development League (PDL) play-offs against Ipswich Town, and started in the final, but had been substituted by the time Birmingham lost to Leeds United U23 in a penalty shoot-out.[9][10] The following season, he scored an 86th-minute winning goal that took Birmingham into the fifth round of the FA Youth Cup despite having had two players sent off; according to the report on the club's website, he "flicked the ball over an opponent, darted on into the area behind the defensive line and cracked a half-volley that went in off the post."[11] Hurst was given a first-team squad number in 2020, but a hamstring issue prevented any involvement with the matchday squad, and he signed his first professional contract, of three years with the option of a fourth, in June 2020.[4] He again helped Birmingham U23 qualify for the PDL play-offs in 2021, and played the whole of the semi-final win away to Bristol City,[12] but was an unused substitute as his side beat Sheffield United to gain promotion to Premier League 2 for 2021–22.[13]

Hurst scored four goals from 17 appearances for Birmingham's U23 team in the 2021–22 Premier League 2 season.[14] He joined Southern League Premier Division Central club Alvechurch in mid-February 2022 on loan until the end of the season.[15] He made his debut in senior football on 12 February, starting in a 1–1 draw away to Tamworth,[16] and made three more appearances before returning to his parent club.[17]

Doncaster Rovers

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After a trial in which Hurst played in several pre-season friendlies for Doncaster Rovers,[18] he signed a two-year contract with the League Two club on 22 July 2022.[19] He made his club and Football League debut on the opening day of the 2022–23 season, playing 82 minutes of a goalless draw away to Bradford City before being substituted immediately after receiving a yellow card.[20] Hurst continued in the starting eleven, and scored his first senior goals in his fifth league match, a 20-yard (18 m) chip over the goalkeeper and a powerful shot high to his near post, to complete Doncaster's comeback from 1–0 down against Salford City.[21] On 1 March 2023, by which time he had seven goals from 36 appearances in all competitions, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club.[22]

Having been almost ever-present in 2022–23,[23] injury kept Hurst out of the new season until 9 September.[24][25]

By the middle of the 2024–25 season, Hurst had lost his first-team place. His contract with Doncaster was extended to run until June 2026, and he joined Scottish Championship club Queen's Park on loan for the remainder of the season.[26] He made his debut on 9 February, replacing Seb Drozd in the starting eleven for the Scottish Cup fifth round match against Rangers at Ibrox Park.[27] He came close to opening the scoring in the second half before being replaced by Drozd, who gave Queen's Park the lead two minutes later.[27] Seven minutes into stoppage time, Rangers were awarded a penalty kick, which was saved by Calum Ferrie to inflict what was Rangers' first Scottish Cup defeat to lower league opponents since 1967 and only such defeat at home.[27][28]

On 9 August 2025, Hurst joined National League club Gateshead on loan until 4 January 2026.[29]

Career statistics

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As of match played 22 March 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] EFL Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Birmingham City 2021–22[30] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
Alvechurch (loan) 2021–22[17] Southern League
Premier Division Central		 4 0 — — 0 0 4 0
Doncaster Rovers 2022–23[23] League Two 45 6 1 0 1 0 3[b] 1 50 7
2023–24[25] League Two 21 2 3 0 0 0 6[c] 2 30 4
2024–25[31] League Two 21 3 2 0 1 0 4[b] 1 28 4
Total 87 11 6 0 2 0 13 4 108 15
Queen's Park (loan) 2024–25[31] Scottish Championship 7 0 2 0 — 0 0 9 0
Career total 98 11 8 0 2 0 13 4 121 15
  1. ^ Includes FA Cup, Scottish Cup
  2. ^ a b Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy
  3. ^ Four appearances in EFL Trophy, two in League Two play-offs

Honours

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Queen's Park

Doncaster Rovers

References

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