Bird, Jay
Birth Date
6th May 2001
Birthplace
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Occupation
Forward
Biographical Text
Buckinghamshire-born Jay Bird joined Exeter City from Arbroath in 2024. After starting with Milton Keynes Dons, he had also played for Dagenham and Redbridge.
After progressing through the club's age group teams, Jay became a scholar/trainee with Milton Keynes Dons in 2017 and a full professional in 2019. Making his debut by scoring twice against Stevenage in the EFL Trophy in October 2020, and also enjoying loan spells with Hitchin Town and Wealdstone, he made five more first-team appearances for Dons before being released in the summer of 2022
Subsequently agreeing terms with National League Dagenham and Redbridge in November 2022, Jay appeared in fourteen league and cup games (scoring twice) for the East London club ahead of spending the 2023/24 campaign with Arbroath for whom he scored eight times in forty appearances in all competitions. By now aged twenty-three, he signed an initial one-year contract (with the option of a second year) with Exeter City at the start of July 2024 and took the number 31 shirt of the 1931 Fund.
Not involved in the opening games of the season because of injury, Jay made his first-team debut as a second-half substitute against Swindon Town in the EFL Trophy on 3 September 2024 and his league debut in similar fashion at Shrewsbury Town on 17 October 2024. Gradually establishing himself in the squad, he made his first start against Bristol Rovers in the EFL Trophy on 29 October 2024 when he also netted his first goal in City's colours.
After progressing through the club's age group teams, Jay became a scholar/trainee with Milton Keynes Dons in 2017 and a full professional in 2019. Making his debut by scoring twice against Stevenage in the EFL Trophy in October 2020, and also enjoying loan spells with Hitchin Town and Wealdstone, he made five more first-team appearances for Dons before being released in the summer of 2022
Subsequently agreeing terms with National League Dagenham and Redbridge in November 2022, Jay appeared in fourteen league and cup games (scoring twice) for the East London club ahead of spending the 2023/24 campaign with Arbroath for whom he scored eight times in forty appearances in all competitions. By now aged twenty-three, he signed an initial one-year contract (with the option of a second year) with Exeter City at the start of July 2024 and took the number 31 shirt of the 1931 Fund.
Not involved in the opening games of the season because of injury, Jay made his first-team debut as a second-half substitute against Swindon Town in the EFL Trophy on 3 September 2024 and his league debut in similar fashion at Shrewsbury Town on 17 October 2024. Gradually establishing himself in the squad, he made his first start against Bristol Rovers in the EFL Trophy on 29 October 2024 when he also netted his first goal in City's colours.
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