Jordan Allan (born 20 October 1998) is a Scottish

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who plays for club Queen of the South. He has previously played for

Airdrieonians Airdrieonians Football Club is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who are members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and play in the . They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Club ...

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Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath () is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is north-east of Dunfermline and north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a police burgh in 1890. According to a 20 ...

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, Clyde (two spells) and

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Career

In April 2013, Allan made his debut for Scottish club

Airdrie United Airdrieonians Football Club is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who are members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and play in the . They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Clu ...

as a substitute against

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in a 2–0 defeat. Still a pupil at

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and aged just 14 years and 189 days, Allan became the youngest player to represent a first team in the

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, and Britain, breaking the record previously established by

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in January 2008; (the British record stood for almost a decade before being broken by Christopher Atherton from Northern Ireland) but the SFL record will never be bettered as the organisation was replaced by the

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a few months later. In May 2014, Allan signed for

. On 30 August 2017 he returned to his former club Airdrieonians on a six-month loan deal. Allan was released by Wolves at the end of the 2017–18 season. He signed for

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club

in November 2018, and then moved to

during August 2020. Allan returned to Airdrie in June 2021. Allan joined

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club Clyde in the summer of 2022, and had a very successful 6 months with the ''Bully Wee'' in which he scored ten league goals by the midway point and won the League One player of the month for November 2022. On 26 January 2023, Allan move to league rivals

for an undisclosed fee and signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the ''Bairns''. In January 2024, Allan returned to Clyde on loan until the end of the season. After a successful loan spell which included a Player of the Month award for the

in April, Allan signed a pre-contract agreement on 8 May 2025 to join Queen of the South on a one-year deal.

Honours

;Falkirk *

: 2023-24

References

1998 births Scottish men's footballers Airdrieonians F.C. players Scottish Football League players Men's association football forwards Living people Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players Scotland men's youth international footballers Cowdenbeath F.C. players Scottish Professional Football League players Forfar Athletic F.C. players Clyde F.C. players Footballers from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Falkirk F.C. players 21st-century Scottish sportsmen {{Scotland-footy-forward-1990s-stub Queen of the South F.C. players