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Keithy Simpson

Jamaican footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6385280
Source-derived summary

Keithy Simpson (born 19 April 1990) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward.

Club career

Youth and amateur

Simpson attended Donald Quarrie High School and Hydel High School in Jamaica and played club soccer for Sporting Central Academy before joining the youth academy of Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps joining Jamaica youth national teammate Dever Orgill. He featured in matches against the youth academies of Eintracht Frankfurt and Leicester City at the XXIX Dallas Cup, and played in the USL Premier Development League with the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency team in 2009. He also traveled to Germany with the club and competed against the U-19 team of Hertha Berlin and others.

Senior

After featuring for Sporting Central Academy most of his career, Simpson move to Portmore United in January 2011. He spent 18 months with North East Stars FC of the TT Pro League from September 2012. In March 2014, Simpson signed with Vaasan Palloseura in Finland. In 2016, Simpson signed with Águila in El Salvador.

In September 2020, Simpson signed with Dunbeholden FC in the Jamaican top flight.

International career

Simpson was a member of the Jamaica under-17 squad during the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifiers 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica and 2009 CONCACAF U-20 World Cup qualifiers in Scarborough, Tobago.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Keithy Simpson” as jamaican footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1990, 2009, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1990-04-18, 1990-04-19—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Keithy, Simpson and Jamaican can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as jamaican footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6385280. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Keithy Simpson” 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.