Dean Lyness
English footballer (born 1991)
Dean James Lyness (born 20 July 1991) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Scottish League One club Hamilton Academical.
Lyness began his career as a youngster with Birmingham City, but never played for the first team. He signed for Scottish Premier League club Heart of Midlothian in 2009, and spent a spell on loan at East Fife of the Scottish Second Division, but again, never played first-team football. On returning to England in 2011, he spent a season with Conference Premier club Kidderminster Harriers, playing ten matches, and then joined Burton Albion, with whom he made his first appearance in the Football League. After two spells on loan to Blackpool and a season with the club on a permanent basis, Lyness spent the 2017–18 season with Nuneaton Town of the National League North.
He returned to the Scottish top flight with St Mirren on a short-term contract in September 2018, and spent the second half of the season with Scottish League One club Raith Rovers before rejoining St Mirren. Over the next three seasons, he was the regular backup goalkeeper but made only seven first-team appearances, and signed for Airdrieonians in October 2022 on a short term basis. In 2023 he moved to League of Ireland Premier Division club St Patrick's Athletic, where he played for a season and won the 2023 FAI Cup. In early 2024 he moved to Hamilton Academical and helped them to promotion to the Scottish Championship in his first half season at the club.
In international football, Lyness was capped four times for England at under-17 level.
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