Daniel James

Attack - Right Winger at Leeds United

Age28

CitizenshipWales England

Height1.71 m

Footright

BornNovember 10, 1997

at Leeds United 1,727 days · joined 2021-08-31

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👕200+ Apps ⚽50+ Goals 🎯50+ Assists 🏴50+ Caps

Market value €18.00m

Right Winger Attack

Career snapshot

clubs played for

14/15

debut season

0.17

goals / match

Leeds United

top club · 127 apps

Career highs

€28.00m

peak value · 2019

€29.10m

top transfer fee · 21/22

best season · 23/24

90 / 13

int'l caps / goals

Born the same day

Federico Dimarco

Defender - Left-Back · Inter Milan

€50.00m

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Midfield - Central Midfield · Ordabasy Shymkent

€800k

Kazunari Ichimi

Attack - Centre-Forward · Fagiano Okayama

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Cesar Weilid

Defender - Right-Back · IK Brage

€275k

Shares 1997-11-10 · 6 players total

315Appearances

55Goals

55Assists

27Yellow cards

1Red cards

60Full matches (90′)

Full name	Daniel James
Name in home country	Daniel Owen James
Date of birth	1997-11-10 (28 yrs)
Place of birth	Beverley, Wales
Citizenship	Wales England
Position	Attack - Right Winger (main: Attack)
Foot	right
Height	171.00 m
Current club	Leeds United
Joined	2021-08-31
Contract expires	2029-06-30
Agent	CAA Stellar
Outfitter	adidas

Jul 2025

25/26 — Leeds United

4 matches · 0 G · 0 A · across 2 competitions

Aug 2024

Injury: unknown

10 games missed

Jul 2024

24/25 — Leeds United

37 matches · 12 G · 9 A · across 3 competitions

Jul 2023

23/24 — Leeds United

46 matches · 13 G · 8 A · across 4 competitions

May 2023

Transfer: Fulham → Leeds

22/23 · Return from loan

May 2023

Injury: unknown

5 games missed

Sep 2022

Transfer: Leeds → Fulham

22/23 · Loan

Jul 2022

22/23 — Leeds United, Fulham FC, Leeds United U21

29 matches · 3 G · 2 A · across 4 competitions

Aug 2021

Transfer: Man Utd → Leeds

21/22 · Transfer · €29.10m

Jul 2021

21/22 — Leeds United, Manchester United

37 matches · 4 G · 5 A · across 3 competitions

Apr 2021

Injury: unknown

5 games missed

Apr 2021

Injury: unknown

1 games missed

Dec 2020

Injury: unknown

Jul 2020

20/21 — Manchester United

26 matches · 5 G · 2 A · across 5 competitions

Feb 2020

Injury: unknown

2 games missed

Sep 2019

Injury: unknown

2 games missed

Jul 2019

19/20 — Manchester United

46 matches · 4 G · 7 A · across 4 competitions

Jul 2019

Transfer: Swansea → Man Utd

19/20 · Transfer · €17.80m

Dec 2018

Injury: unknown

2 games missed

Jul 2018

18/19 — Swansea City

38 matches · 5 G · 10 A · across 3 competitions

Jul 2018

Transfer: Swansea U23 → Swansea

18/19 · Transfer

Aug 2017

Transfer: Shrewsbury → Swansea U23

17/18 · Return from loan

Jul 2017

17/18 — Shrewsbury Town, Swansea City U23, Swansea City

12 matches · 1 G · 1 A · across 4 competitions

Jul 2017

Transfer: Swansea U23 → Shrewsbury

17/18 · Loan

Jul 2016

16/17 — Swansea City U23, Swansea City

19 matches · 6 G · 7 A · across 3 competitions

Jul 2015

15/16 — Swansea City, Swansea City U21

20 matches · 2 G · 4 A · across 3 competitions

Jul 2015

Transfer: Swansea U18 → Swansea U21

15/16 · Transfer

Jul 2014

14/15 — Swansea City U18

1 matches · 0 G · 0 A · across 1 competition

Jul 2014

Transfer: Hull U18 → Swansea U18

14/15 · Transfer

Jul 2013

Transfer: Hull City Yth. → Hull U18

13/14 · Transfer

Jan 1970

Peak market value: €28.00m

Highest valuation recorded in dataset

Minutes played by club

Leeds United 18.6%

Fulham FC 7.5%

Leeds United U21 0.0%

Manchester United 33.9%

Swansea City 16.2%

Shrewsbury Town 0.0%

Swansea City U23 9.8%

Swansea City U21 14.0%

Swansea City U18 0.0%

Club	Seasons	First	Last	Matches	Goals	Assists	Minutes
Leeds United	5	21/22	25/26	127	29	22	1,003
Fulham FC	1	22/23	22/23	23	3	1	405
Leeds United U21	1	22/23	22/23	1	0	1	0
Manchester United	3	19/20	21/22	74	9	9	1,835
Swansea City	4	15/16	18/19	39	6	10	874
Shrewsbury Town	1	17/18	17/18	0	0	0	0
Swansea City U23	2	16/17	17/18	30	6	8	531
Swansea City U21	1	15/16	15/16	20	2	4	759
Swansea City U18	1	14/15	14/15	1	0	0	0

Career trajectory — goals, assists & market value

Goals by season

Assists by season

Season	Competition	Club	Matches	Goals	Assists	YC	RC	Minutes
25/26	EFL Cup	Leeds United	1	0	0	0	0	0
25/26	Premier League	Leeds United	3	0	0	0	0	0
24/25	Championship	Leeds United	36	12	9	4	0	218
24/25	EFL Cup	Leeds United	0	0	0	0	0	0
24/25	FA Cup	Leeds United	1	0	0	0	0	0
23/24	Championship	Leeds United	40	13	7	4	0	192
23/24	Championship Play-Offs	Leeds United	3	0	0	0	0	0
23/24	EFL Cup	Leeds United	1	0	0	0	0	0
23/24	FA Cup	Leeds United	2	0	1	0	0	0
22/23	EFL Cup	Leeds United	1	0	0	0	0	0
22/23	FA Cup	Fulham FC	3	1	0	0	0	101
22/23	Premier League	Leeds United	4	0	0	0	0	0
22/23	Premier League	Fulham FC	20	2	1	0	0	304
22/23	Premier League 2	Leeds United U21	1	0	1	0	0	0
21/22	EFL Cup	Leeds United	2	0	0	0	0	0
21/22	FA Cup	Leeds United	1	0	0	0	0	0
21/22	Premier League	Leeds United	32	4	5	7	1	593
21/22	Premier League	Manchester United	2	0	0	0	0	0
20/21	Champions League	Manchester United	2	1	0	0	0	33
20/21	EFL Cup	Manchester United	1	0	0	0	0	0
20/21	Europa League	Manchester United	7	1	1	0	0	438
20/21	FA Cup	Manchester United	1	0	0	0	0	0
20/21	Premier League	Manchester United	15	3	1	3	0	304
19/20	EFL Cup	Manchester United	4	0	1	0	0	0
19/20	Europa League	Manchester United	6	1	0	0	0	296
19/20	FA Cup	Manchester United	3	0	0	0	0	0
19/20	Premier League	Manchester United	33	3	6	4	0	764
18/19	Championship	Swansea City	33	4	9	2	0	627
18/19	EFL Cup	Swansea City	1	0	0	0	0	0
18/19	FA Cup	Swansea City	4	1	1	0	0	219
17/18	EFL Cup	Shrewsbury Town	0	0	0	0	0	0
17/18	EFL Trophy	Swansea City U23	1	0	1	0	0	0
17/18	FA Cup	Swansea City	1	1	0	0	0	28
17/18	Premier League 2	Swansea City U23	10	0	0	0	0	0
16/17	EFL Trophy	Swansea City U23	3	1	0	0	0	270
16/17	Premier League	Swansea City	0	0	0	0	0	0
16/17	Premier League 2	Swansea City U23	16	5	7	2	0	261
15/16	FA Cup	Swansea City	0	0	0	0	0	0
15/16	U21 PL	Swansea City U21	19	2	4	1	0	759
15/16	U21 PL Playoffs	Swansea City U21	1	0	0	0	0	0
14/15	FA Youth Cup	Swansea City U18	1	0	0	0	0	0

Season	Date	From	To	Type	Market value	Fee
13/14	2013-07-01	Hull City Yth.	Hull U18	Transfer	0	—
14/15	2014-07-01	Hull U18	Swansea U18	Transfer	0	—
15/16	2015-07-01	Swansea U18	Swansea U21	Transfer	0	—
17/18	2017-07-01	Swansea U23	Shrewsbury	Loan	0	—
17/18	2017-08-31	Shrewsbury	Swansea U23	Return from loan	0	—
18/19	2018-07-01	Swansea U23	Swansea	Transfer	0	—
19/20	2019-07-01	Swansea	Man Utd	Transfer	12000000	€17.80m
21/22	2021-08-31	Man Utd	Leeds	Transfer	18000000	€29.10m
22/23	2022-09-01	Leeds	Fulham	Loan	18000000	—
22/23	2023-05-31	Fulham	Leeds	Return from loan	13000000	—

Season	Injury	From	To	Days missed	Games missed
18/19	Muscle injury	2018-12-02	2018-12-21	20	2
19/20	Ankle injury	2019-09-10	2019-09-21	12	2
19/20	Knock	2020-02-28	2020-03-07	9	2
20/21	Knock	2020-12-27	2020-12-28	2	0
20/21	Knock	2021-04-09	2021-04-14	6	1
20/21	unknown injury	2021-04-30	2021-05-21	22	5
22/23	Hamstring injury	2023-05-07	2023-05-21	15	5
24/25	Hamstring injury	2024-08-29	2024-10-16	49	10

Current€18.00m

Peak€28.00m

Low€100k

Δ since start+€17.90m

Date	Value
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€16.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€14.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€12.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€14.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€13.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€16.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€18.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€22.50m
Jan 1, 1970	€16.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€19.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€25.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€28.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€3.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€12.00m
Jan 1, 1970	€100k

Team	Shirt	Matches	Goals	Debut	Age at debut	Status
Team #60387	—	3	1	—	—	former national player
Team #30431	#7	13	3	—	—	former national player
Team #26181	#17	6	1	—	—	former national player
Team #24966	—	11	0	—	—	former national player
Team #3864	#20	57	8	—	—	current national player

Teammate	PPG played with	Joint goals	Minutes
Mateo Joseph	2	2	878
Scott McTominay	2	2	0
Ben Davies	2	1	0
Crysencio Summerville	2	3	0
Archie Gray	2	0	0
Anthony Martial	2	2	0
Marcus Rashford	2	5	0
Andreas Pereira	2	0	0
George Byers	2	6	0
Connor Roberts	2	1	0
David de Gea	2	0	0
Oli McBurnie	2	9	0
Victor Lindelöf	2	0	0
Harry Wilson	2	2	0
Aaron Wan-Bissaka	2	0	0
Fred	2	0	0
Harry Maguire	2	0	0
Junior Firpo	2	5	0

Single-season peaks across competitions in this player's career.

Top goalscoring seasons

Season	Competition	Club	Goals	Matches
23/24	Championship	Leeds United	13	40
24/25	Championship	Leeds United	12	36
16/17	Premier League 2	Swansea City U23	5	16

Top assist seasons

Season	Competition	Club	Assists	Matches
24/25	Championship	Leeds United	9	36
18/19	Championship	Swansea City	9	33
16/17	Premier League 2	Swansea City U23	7	16

Every loan spell across this player's career.

Season	Date	From	To	Type	Fee	Value at transfer
22/23	2023-05-31	Fulham	Leeds	Return from loan	—	€13.00m
22/23	2022-09-01	Leeds	Fulham	Loan	—	€18.00m
17/18	2017-08-31	Shrewsbury	Swansea U23	Return from loan	—	—
17/18	2017-07-01	Swansea U23	Shrewsbury	Loan	—	—

Last 50 matches for Leeds United The Availability column cross-references our injury database — matches inside a known injury window are flagged INJURED. Per-match goal attribution requires a paid feed (FBref/Sofascore) and isn't wired up yet.

Date	Comp	Home	Score	Away	Availability
2024-08-14	`CGB`	Leeds United	0–3	Middlesbrough FC	Available
2024-02-28	`GB1`	Chelsea FC	3–2	Leeds United	Available
2023-08-29	`CGB`	Salford City	9–8	Leeds United	Available
2023-08-09	`CGB`	Leeds United	2–1	Shrewsbury Town	Available
2023-02-28	`GB1`	Fulham FC	2–0	Leeds United	Available
2022-11-09	`CGB`	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–0	Leeds United	Available
2022-08-24	`CGB`	Leeds United	3–1	Barnsley FC	Available
2021-10-26	`CGB`	Arsenal FC	2–0	Leeds United	Available
2021-09-21	`CGB`	Fulham FC	5–6	Leeds United	Available
2021-08-24	`CGB`	Leeds United	3–0	Crewe Alexandra	Available
2020-09-16	`CGB`	Leeds United	8–9	Hull City	Available
2020-06-30	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–1	Luton Town	Available
2020-06-27	`GB2`	Leeds United	3–0	Fulham FC	Available
2020-06-21	`GB2`	Cardiff City	2–0	Leeds United	Available
2020-03-07	`GB2`	Leeds United	2–0	Huddersfield Town	Available
2020-02-29	`GB2`	Hull City	0–4	Leeds United	INJURED Knock
2020-02-26	`GB2`	Middlesbrough FC	0–1	Leeds United	Available
2020-02-22	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–0	Reading FC	Available
2020-02-15	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–0	Bristol City	Available
2020-02-11	`GB2`	Brentford FC	1–1	Leeds United	Available
2020-02-08	`GB2`	Nottingham Forest	2–0	Leeds United	Available
2020-02-01	`GB2`	Leeds United	0–1	Wigan Athletic	Available
2020-01-28	`GB2`	Leeds United	3–2	Millwall FC	Available
2020-01-18	`GB2`	Queens Park Rangers	1–0	Leeds United	Available
2020-01-11	`GB2`	Leeds United	0–2	Sheffield Wednesday	Available
2020-01-01	`GB2`	West Bromwich Albion	1–1	Leeds United	Available
2019-12-29	`GB2`	Birmingham City	4–5	Leeds United	Available
2019-12-26	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–1	Preston North End	Available
2019-12-21	`GB2`	Fulham FC	2–1	Leeds United	Available
2019-12-14	`GB2`	Leeds United	3–3	Cardiff City	Available
2019-12-10	`GB2`	Leeds United	2–0	Hull City	Available
2019-12-07	`GB2`	Huddersfield Town	0–2	Leeds United	Available
2019-11-30	`GB2`	Leeds United	4–0	Middlesbrough FC	Available
2019-11-26	`GB2`	Reading FC	0–1	Leeds United	Available
2019-11-23	`GB2`	Luton Town	1–2	Leeds United	Available
2019-11-09	`GB2`	Leeds United	2–1	Blackburn Rovers	Available
2019-11-02	`GB2`	Leeds United	2–0	Queens Park Rangers	Available
2019-10-26	`GB2`	Sheffield Wednesday	0–0	Leeds United	Available
2019-10-22	`GB2`	Preston North End	1–1	Leeds United	Available
2019-10-19	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–0	Birmingham City	Available
2019-10-05	`GB2`	Millwall FC	2–1	Leeds United	Available
2019-10-01	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–0	West Bromwich Albion	Available
2019-09-28	`GB2`	Charlton Athletic	1–0	Leeds United	Available
2019-09-21	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–1	Derby County	Available
2019-09-15	`GB2`	Barnsley FC	0–2	Leeds United	INJURED Ankle injury
2019-08-31	`GB2`	Leeds United	0–1	Swansea City	Available
2019-08-27	`CGB`	Leeds United	4–5	Stoke City	Available
2019-08-24	`GB2`	Stoke City	0–3	Leeds United	Available
2019-08-21	`GB2`	Leeds United	1–0	Brentford FC	Available
2019-08-17	`GB2`	Wigan Athletic	0–2	Leeds United	Available

Teams faced most often by Daniel James's clubs during seasons he played in those competitions (team-level results, not personal head-to-head goals — see disclaimer above).

Opponent	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Liverpool FC	30	10	9	11	41	48	-7	33%
Brentford FC	30	10	8	12	36	47	-11	33%
Chelsea FC	30	9	7	14	33	40	-7	30%
Everton FC	28	13	10	5	43	32	+11	46%
AFC Bournemouth	27	9	7	11	39	40	-1	33%
Arsenal FC	27	6	6	15	30	57	-27	22%
Manchester City	26	6	3	17	23	50	-27	23%
Southampton FC	25	9	8	8	27	27	0	36%
Middlesbrough FC	25	11	9	5	27	22	+5	44%
Nottingham Forest	25	9	7	9	31	30	+1	36%
Reading FC	25	15	5	5	53	20	+33	60%
Birmingham City	24	12	3	9	35	29	+6	50%

Auto-detected milestones based on cumulative career totals.

Season / Year	Milestone	Date
14/15	Senior debut season
15/16	First senior goal
24/25	Goal #50 (career)

Yellow / second-yellow / red cards per season. Only seasons with at least one card are shown.

Season	Matches	Mins	YC	RC	Cards / 90′
24/25	37	218	4	0	1.65
23/24	46	192	4	0	1.88
21/22	37	593	7	1	1.21
20/21	26	775	3	0	0.35
19/20	46	1,060	4	0	0.34
18/19	38	846	2	0	0.21
16/17	19	531	2	0	0.34
15/16	20	759	1	0	0.12