Shane Ferguson

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Shane Ferguson
File:Shane Ferguson BCFC 2013.jpg
With Birmingham City in 2013 pre-season
Personal information
Full name Shane Kevin Ferguson[1]
Date of birth (1991-07-12) 12 July 1991 (age 34)[2]
Place of birth Derry, Northern Ireland
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Position
Youth career
2001–2007 Maiden City Academy
2007–2009 Newcastle United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2016 Newcastle United 23 (0)
2013 → Birmingham City (loan) 11 (1)
2013–2014 → Birmingham City (loan) 18 (0)
2015 → Rangers (loan) 0 (0)
2015–2016 → Millwall (loan) 25 (2)
2016–2021 Millwall 155 (5)
2021–2024 Rotherham United 73 (4)
2025 Derry City 13 (0)
International career‡
2007–2008 Northern Ireland U17 8 (0)
2008–2009 Northern Ireland U19 16 (3)
2008–2012 Northern Ireland U21 11 (0)
2009 Northern Ireland B 1 (0)
2009– Northern Ireland 57 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 20:13, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Shane Kevin Ferguson (born 12 July 1991) is a Northern Irish professional footballer most recently for Derry City and the Northern Ireland national team. He previously played for Newcastle United in the Premier League, where he had two spells on loan to Birmingham City of the English Championship, as well as Rangers of the Scottish Championship and Scottish Professional Football League and Millwall of the EFL Championship. He then spent five and a half seasons with Millwall, three with Rotherham United and one with Derry City. He is capable of playing anywhere on the left flank as a full back or winger.

Early life

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Born in Derry, Ferguson began playing youth football for his hometown club, Maiden City, and Gaelic football for Derry GAA.[4] After finishing his GCSEs at St Mary's High School, he moved to England where he was offered a scholarship at the Newcastle United Academy.[citation needed]

Club career

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Newcastle United

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Ferguson joined the Newcastle United youth system in July 2007.[5] In June 2009, he signed a new three-year contract.[6]

Ferguson made his first team debut at left back on 25 August 2010, in a League Cup tie away at Accrington Stanley.[7] He then played in the next round of the League Cup, on 22 September, away at Chelsea and he assisted in the first goal in the 4–3 win.[8] He made his Premier League debut on 5 January 2011 against West Ham United as a second-half substitute.[9] He made his first Premier League start against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 2 April 2011.[10] Ferguson signed a new five-year contract on 27 May 2011, having made a good impression in the final part of the season.[11]

A lengthy lay off due to a pre-season ankle ligament injury sustained against Darlington meant the young full back was unable to travel with the first team to a pre-season tournament in the United States.[12] After appearing in the League Cup second round against Nottingham Forest, he made his first Premier League appearance on 10 December 2011, as a late substitute for Davide Santon.[citation needed]

In the early months of the 2012–13 season Ferguson assisted a number of goals for strikers Demba Ba and Papiss Cissé and produced some quality crosses from the left wing.[13][14][15]

Loans to Birmingham City, Rangers and Millwall

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File:Millwall Vs Swindon Town (22069702789) (cropped).jpg
Ferguson playing for Millwall in 2015

In late February 2013, Ferguson joined Championship club Birmingham City on loan until 1 April.[16] He scored his first goal for the club, and his first senior competitive goal, with a free kick from just outside the penalty area, to complete Birmingham's 4–0 away win against Crystal Palace on 29 March.[17] His loan was extended until the end of the season,[18] and he made 11 appearances before returning to Newcastle.[citation needed]

In July 2013, Ferguson rejoined Birmingham on loan for the season.[19] He played regularly at the start of the season, but fell out of favour, and appeared only three times in the last three months of the season after the arrival of Liverpool's Jordon Ibe on loan.[20]

Having made no first-team appearances in the first half of 2014–15, he was one of five Newcastle players to join Scottish Championship club Rangers on loan on 2 February 2015.[21] He was still recovering from a knee ligament injury,[22] and only regained fitness in time to make two appearances: as a second-half substitute in the first leg of the play-off final and as a starter in the second, as Rangers lost out to Motherwell.[23]

Ferguson joined Millwall on loan on 7 August 2015 on a 92-day loan from parent club Newcastle. His debut came a day later in a 2–1 away win against Shrewsbury Town. On 1 September, Ferguson's loan spell at the club was extended until 9 January 2016.[24] Ferguson scored his first Millwall goal in November 2015 against Colchester United. He made 24 appearances and scored 2 goals for Millwall before returning to Newcastle in January 2016.[25]

Millwall

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On 26 January 2016, Ferguson signed an eighteen-month contract with Millwall for an undisclosed fee.[26] In May 2021, he was released from the club.

Rotherham United

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On 20 July 2021, Ferguson signed a two-year contract (with the option of a third year) with Rotherham United.[27] He made his debut in the first game of the 2021–22 season against Plymouth Argyle on 7 August 2021, coming on as a second-half substitute.[28]

On 7 May 2024, after the club were relegated, Rotherham announced the player would be released in the summer after his contract expired.[29]

Derry City

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On 11 December 2024, Ferguson signed for League of Ireland Premier Division club Derry City ahead of their 2025 season.[30][31] He made 14 appearances in all competitions during the season, before it was announced on 13 November 2025 that he would be leaving the club at the end of his contract.[32]

International career

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Ferguson has been capped for the Northern Ireland national team at various youth levels. He made his senior debut when he came on as a substitute in a 3–0 friendly defeat to Italy on 6 June 2009.[33] He was called up for the 2011 U21 European Championship qualifier against Germany on 13 November but did not leave the bench. Simultaneously, he had also been a regular in the U-19 squad in their bid to qualify for the 2010 European Championships and helped them to a place in the elite round.[34] He played all three matches of that round, but Northern Ireland failed to win any of the games and finished at the bottom of their group.[35]

In May 2011 it was reported that Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington believed that Ferguson would switch his allegiance to the Republic of Ireland after he failed to reply to telephone calls.[36] In the months that followed, Ferguson did not comment on his future at international level. However, under-21 coach Steve Beaglehole later stated that he believed Ferguson never attempted to switch allegiances despite failing to respond to Worthington's calls[37] as he had started in all the 2013 European Championship qualifiers from September onwards. In November, Ferguson ended the speculation by publicly committing his international future to Northern Ireland. On 20 February 2012 Ferguson was included in Michael O'Neill's first squad following his appointment as the Northern Ireland manager.[38][39]

Ferguson scored his first goal for Northern Ireland in an international friendly versus Finland on 15 August 2012.[40] A year later, he produced what O'Neill called "90 minutes of the really highest quality" as Northern Ireland beat Russia in a 2014 World Cup qualifier.[41]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played on 18 July 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Newcastle United 2009–10[42] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2010–11[43] Premier League 7 0 0 0 2 0 — 9 0
2011–12[44] Premier League 7 0 1 0 1 0 — 9 0
2012–13[45] Premier League 9 0 0 0 1 0 4[a] 0 14 0
2013–14[20] Premier League 0 0 — — — 0 0
2014–15[46] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2015–16[47] Premier League 0 0 — — — 0 0
Total 23 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 32 0
Birmingham City (loan) 2012–13[45] Championship 11 1 — — — 11 1
2013–14[20] Championship 18 0 2 0 3 0 — 23 0
Total 29 1 2 0 3 0 — 34 1
Rangers (loan) 2014–15[46] Scottish Championship 0 0 0 0 — 2[b] 0 2 0
Millwall 2015–16[47] League One 39 3 0 0 1 0 6[c] 0 46 3
2016–17[48] League One 40 2 6 2 2 0 4[d] 0 52 4
2017–18[49] Championship 24 0 2 0 2 1 — 28 1
2018–19[50] Championship 35 2 4 2 3 0 — 42 4
2019–20[51] Championship 29 0 2 0 2 0 — 33 0
2020–21[52] Championship 13 0 1 0 2 0 — 16 0
Total 180 7 15 4 12 1 10 0 217 12
Rotherham United 2021–22[53] League One 32 1 2 0 1 0 5[e] 0 40 1
2022–23[54] Championship 32 3 1 0 1 0 — 34 3
2023–24[55] Championship 9 0 0 0 0 0 — 9 0
Total 73 4 3 0 2 0 5 0 83 4
Derry City 2025[56] LOI Premier Division 13 0 1 0 — — 14 0
Career total 318 12 22 4 21 1 21 0 382 17
  1. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  2. ^ Appearances in Scottish Championship play-offs
  3. ^ Three appearances in Football League Trophy, three in League One play-offs
  4. ^ One appearance in EFL Trophy, three in League One play-offs
  5. ^ Appearances in EFL Trophy

International

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As of match played 23 March 2023[40][57]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Northern Ireland 2009 1 0
2012 5 1
2013 7 0
2014 5 0
2015 4 0
2016 8 0
2017 4 0
2018 3 0
2019 5 0
2020 4 0
2021 7 1
2022 3 0
2023 1 0
Total 57 2
Scores and results list Northern Ireland's goal tally first
International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 15 August 2012 Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland 4 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland 1–0 3–3 Friendly [40]
2 5 September 2021 Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn, Estonia 50 File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia 1–0 1–0 Friendly [58]

Honours

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Millwall

Rotherham United

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