Jon McCracken
Scottish association football player (born 2000)
Jon Douglas McCracken (born 24 May 2000) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Bradford City. He came through the Hamilton Academical and Norwich City academies without playing a competitive first team game for either club. He has since made over 75 competitive first team appearances from loan stints at Bohemians, Stevenage, Dundee (twice) and Accrington Stanley, and then re-joined Dundee as a permanent player in 2024 for two seasons.
McCracken represented Scotland six times at the under-17 level. He received a call up to the senior squad in 2024.
Club career
Norwich City
McCracken began his career at Hamilton Academical, before signing for Norwich City's academy in 2016. After spending the 2018–19 season playing for Norwich's under-23 team, McCracken went on a one-week trial with Premier League club Burnley in July 2019. No transfer materialised and he remained at Norwich for the 2019–20 season, missing the second half of that season after suffering a stress fracture in his back. He trained with the Norwich first team at the start of the 2020–21 season and was an unused substitute in an EFL Cup match against Luton Town on 5 September 2020. He played in all three of the club's EFL Trophy matches during the season.
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