Liam

Kitching

CB Sheffield United #15

Centre-Back – Defender

Liam Kitching

Sheffield United Championship

Top 28% of centre-backs in the world
#713 centre-back aged 26–29
Top 50% in the Championship

Date of birth / Age: 25 Sept 1999 (27)
Citizenship: IrelandEngland
Foot: Left
Height · Weight: 1.91 m / 80 kg
Main position: Centre-Back
Contract until: 2027

Benchmarks

centre-backs with 900+ minutes, last two seasons

World rank

#2163

centre-back in the world by TSH Score

In his age group

#713

among centre-backs aged 26–29

In his league

50%

of Championship centre-backs rank below him

Finishing

−5.0

goals below expected · better than 2% of players

Shooting

last 3 seasons (no penalties)

Goals

3 Expected

53 shots. He scores fewer than the chances he gets would predict.

Creating

last 3 seasons

Assists

1 Expected

1.5

Teammates converted his chances about as expected.

Season 2026/27

Appearances: 3
Starting eleven: 3
Goals: 0
Assists: 0
Yellow cards: 1
Second yellows: 0
Red cards: 0
Minutes: 280

Starting eleven100%

3 of 3 appearances

Minutes played280

93 per appearance

Goal involvement0

0 goals · 0 assists

Positions played

128 matches · since 2020/21

LBCB

Position	Apps	G	A
Centre-Back	122	3	0
Left-Back	6	0	0

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Season

Competitions

Club

Season	Competition	Club	Apps	Starts	G	A	Yellow cards	Second yellow	Red cards	Min
2026/27	Championship	Sheffield United	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	190
2026/27	Carabao Cup	Coventry City	1	1	0	–	0	–	0	90
2025/26	Championship	Coventry City	38	37	2	0	7	0	0	3,340
2025/26	Carabao Cup	Coventry City	2	0	0	–	1	–	0	88
2025/26	FA Cup	Coventry City	1	1	0	–	1	–	0	79
2024/25	Championship	Coventry City	29	28	0	0	8	0	0	2,498
2024/25	Carabao Cup	Coventry City	2	2	0	–	1	–	0	180
2024/25	FA Cup	Coventry City	1	1	0	–	0	–	0	90
2023/24	Championship	Coventry City	28	25	1	1	4	1	2	2,242
2023/24	League One	Barnsley	4	4	1	–	0	–	0	345
2023/24	FA Cup	Coventry City	4	4	0	–	1	–	0	333
2022/23	League One	Barnsley	48	48	4	–	10	–	0	4,310
2022/23	Carabao Cup	Barnsley	1	1	0	–	1	–	0	90
2022/23	FA Cup	Barnsley	1	1	0	–	1	–	0	90
2022/23	EFL Vertu Trophy	Barnsley	1	1	0	–	1	–	0	46
2021/22	Championship	Barnsley	32	29	0	0	5	0	0	2,626
2021/22	FA Cup	Barnsley	2	2	0	–	1	–	0	210
2020/21	League Two	Forest Green Rovers	15	15	0	–	6	–	0	1,345
2020/21	Championship	Barnsley	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
2020/21	EFL Vertu Trophy	Forest Green Rovers	1	1	0	–	0	–	0	55
2019/20	League Two	Forest Green Rovers	29	27	0	–	9	–	0	2,484
2019/20	FA Cup	Forest Green Rovers	3	3	0	–	0	–	0	258
2019/20	Carabao Cup	Forest Green Rovers	2	2	0	–	1	–	0	240
2019/20	EFL Vertu Trophy	Forest Green Rovers	2	1	0	–	0	–	0	215
2018/19	National League	Harrogate Town	34	34	3	–	6	–	0	3,041
2017/18	National League N / S	Harrogate Town	9	8	3	–	0	–	0	759

No rows match these filters.
Career total · all competitions			294	278	14	1^*	65	1^*	2	25,253

By competition	Apps	G	A
Championship	131	3	1
League One	52	5	–
League Two	44	0	–
National League	34	3	–
FA Cup	12	0	–
National League N / S	9	3	–
Carabao Cup	8	0	–
EFL Vertu Trophy	4	0	–

* Assists and second yellows are counted where the data has them, mostly league games from 2014/15; cups and internationals show “–”. Friendlies are excluded. Data as of 2 Nov 2026.

Clubs and transfers

May 2027 May 2027 · Back from Loan Sheffield United Coventry City Back from Loan
Sept 2026 Sept 2026 · Loan Coventry City Sheffield United Loan Loan
Sept 2023 Sept 2023 · Transfer Barnsley Coventry City Transfer
Jan 2021 Jan 2021 · Transfer Forest Green Rovers Barnsley Transfer
Jul 2019 Jul 2019 · Transfer Leeds United FC Under 23 Forest Green Rovers Transfer
May 2019 May 2019 · Back from Loan Harrogate Town Leeds United FC Under 23 Back from Loan
Jul 2018 Jul 2018 · Loan Leeds United FC Under 23 Harrogate Town Loan Loan
Jan 2018 Jan 2018 · Free Transfer – Leeds United FC Under 23 Free Transfer Free

Clubs

ClubAppsGoals
Coventry City 2023–2027 106 3
Sheffield United 2026 2 0
Barnsley 2020–2024 91 5
Forest Green Rovers 2019–2021 52 0
Harrogate Town 2017–2019 43 6

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