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Bailey Peacock-Farrell

Northern Irish association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ23881682 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bailey Peacock-Farrell (born 29 October 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Blackpool. Born in England, he plays for the Northern Ireland national team.

Peacock-Farrell played in Middlesbrough's youth system before signing for Leeds United in 2013. He signed his first professional contract in June 2015 and made his first-team debut in April 2016. He went on loan to National League North club York City in October 2017. He broke into the Leeds first team late into the 2017–18 season and made his debut for the Northern Ireland national team in May 2018. He started the 2018–19 season as Leeds' first-choice goalkeeper before losing his place to Kiko Casilla in January 2019. He signed for Premier League club Burnley in August 2019. He spent the 2021–22 on loan at League One club Sheffield Wednesday.

Club career

Leeds United

Early career

Peacock-Farrell was born in Darlington, County Durham.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bailey Peacock-Farrell” is northern Irish association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bailey, Peacock-Farrell and Northern, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2013, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-10-29. For this dossier, Bailey, Peacock-Farrell and Northern is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “northern Irish association football player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23881682. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2013, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bailey Peacock-Farrell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.