Brierley, Ethan

Birth Date

23rd November 2003

Birthplace

Rochdale, Lancashire

Occupation

Midfielder

Biographical Text

Ethan Brierley, then twenty-one, joined Exeter City on loan from Brentford in June 2025. A successful member of Brentford's B team, he had started his career with Rochdale.

Arriving at Spotland in 2020 as a scholar/trainee, he made his debut as as a sixteen-year-old in September 2020. Making sporadic league and cup appearances over the next eighteen months, he had a loan spell with Spennymoor towards the end of the 2021/22 campaign.

Having signed a contract extension until the end of the 2023/24 season, Rochdale were apparently ready to sell Ethan but proposed moves to Sheffield United and Blackburn Rovers fell through during the early months of 2023. But, with the club relegated from the Football League in May 2023, he was soon to depart his hometown for Brentford having made 32 league appearances (scoring twice). Arriving in West London on a three-year deal, he only made a solitary League Cup substiture during his first two seasons even though he was showing impressive form with a successful Brentford 'B side.

Subsequently in late June 2025 it was announced that Ethan would be spending the third year of his Brentford contract with Exeter City following in the footsteps of recent loanees Ryan Trevett and Tony Yogane. He had aleady played at St James' Park several months earlier when he captained Brentford to a 1-0 victory over City in the Premier League Cup.  

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