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Lyndon John Dykes (born 7 October 1995) is a footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers. Born and raised in Australia to Scottish parents, he represents the Scotland national team. Dykes previously played for Mudgeeraba, Merrimac, Redlands United and Surfers Paradise Apollo in Australia, and for Queen of the South and Livingston in Scotland.

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Lyndon Dykes

Personal information
Full name	Lyndon John Dykes[1]
Date of birth	(1995-10-07) 7 October 1995 (age 27)
Place of birth	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Club information
Current team	Queens Park Rangers
Number	9
Youth career
	Mudgeeraba
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013	Mudgeeraba	5	(0)
2014	Merrimac	16	(25)
2014–2015	Queen of the South	0	(0)
2015	Redlands United	15	(15)
2015	Gold Coast City	1	(1)
2016	Surfers Paradise Apollo	15	(17)
2016–2019	Queen of the South	86	(10)
2019–2020	Livingston	28	(11)
2019	→ Queen of the South (loan)	14	(1)
2020–	Queens Park Rangers	95	(26)
National team‡
2020–	Scotland	25	(8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:20, 9 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:38, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Personal life

Dykes was born on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. He moved to Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, playing rugby league as a youth.[2] As a child, Dykes had a season pass to the Canberra Raiders and idolised captain Ruben Wiki at the time. In his youth, Dykes also played basketball, rugby union and Aussie Rules football.[3] After returning to Australia from a stint with Queen of the South Under-20s team, Dykes worked in a factory for sports company BLK.[4]

Dykes said of his background, "My parents are Scottish. They are from Dumfries. My dad is from just outside Dumfries, a small town called Moniaive."[5] His elder sister Hollie was a gold medal-winning gymnast for Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.[6] Dykes' son was born in Scotland.[7]

Club career

Early career

Dykes spent part of his younger years living and playing rugby league in Canberra where his family settled. Dykes attracted the interest of the Canberra Raiders after helping Gungahlin Bulls to a cup final win. The move never came about as Dykes suffered an injury and his family moved back to the Gold Coast.[2]

His uncle, a former footballer, introduced him to association football as he moved back to the Gold Coast.[3] Dykes played youth football for Mudgeeraba before joining Merrimac. He then played in the 2015 National Premier Leagues Queensland with Redlands United and joined Gold Coast City FC the year after but soon departed to play that season for Surfers Paradise Apollo SC for one month.[8] Dykes was rejected by A-League sides such as Brisbane Roar when playing football in Australia.[2]

Queen of the South

Dykes toured England with the Australian schoolboys, after which he visited relatives in Dumfries, the home town of his parents. He then returned to Dumfries to play for the Queen of the South Under-20s team.[8] He scored 22 goals in 14 competitive matches at this level before returning to Australia in January 2015.[9]

On 7 June 2016, Dykes returned to Scotland and signed for Queen of the South, who had Gavin Skelton as their manager at that time.[9] Dykes' senior competitive debut was representing Queen's when aged 20 in a 2–0 Scottish League Cup win versus Queen's Park at the Excelsior Stadium on 16 July. His first senior goal was on 9 August in the Queen's 3–1 League Cup win over Hibernian.[8]

On 7 December 2017, Dykes signed an extension to his contract that kept him at the club until 31 May 2019.[10] In three years in Dumfries, he played in 86 league matches, scoring 10 league goals and in 31 cup matches scoring nine cup goals for the Doonhamers. His best position for the Doonhamers was as a foil for Queens main striker Stephen Dobbie, especially when Dobbie scored 43 goals in the 2018–19 season, although he was also played on the wings.[8]

Livingston

On 30 January 2019, Dykes secured a two-year contract to join Livingston, but the Doonhamers reached an agreement with the West Lothian club for him to return to Palmerston Park on loan until the end of the 2018-19 season.[11][12] Dykes was utilised as a central striker at the Lions. He scored on his senior competitive debut for the Lions in a 1–1 League Cup draw at Falkirk on 13 July. On 12 September, he extended his contract with the Lions for an additional season until May 2022. On 6 October, he scored the second goal in the 2–0 home league win versus Celtic. On 21 December, he scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win versus Ross County, the first time a Livingston player had done so in the top flight.[13]

On 16 August 2020, Livingston announced that a bid has been accepted from a Championship club for Dykes.[14] Three days later, it was announced that he joined Queens Park Rangers.[15] Dykes' transfer fee broke Livingston's club record previously held by the sale of David Fernandez to Celtic in 2002.[14] Queen of the South are due a six-figure fee as part of the deal, as a sell-on clause was included when Dykes was sold to Livingston, with the figure likely to surpass the club's £250,000 record fee received when Andy Thomson moved to Southend United in 1994.[16]

Queens Park Rangers

On 19 August 2020, Dykes signed a four-year deal for English club Queens Park Rangers for a reported fee of £2m.[17] On 12 September, Dykes scored on his competitive debut for the club, scoring a penalty in the 54th minute, in a 2–0 win versus Nottingham Forest.[18] In April 2021, Dykes was named the club's Player of the Month after scoring six goals in six games most notably scoring a brace in a 4–1 win over Sheffield Wednesday on 10 April.[19] Dykes had finished the season as QPR's top scorer with 12 goals and 5 assists.[20]

On 16 October 2021, Dykes scored in the West London derby in Queens Park Rangers’ 4–1 loss against Fulham in the Championship.[21]

International career

Dykes played for Australia schoolboys prior to joining Queen of the South.[8] He was eligible to represent either Australia (where he was born) or Scotland.[7]

When playing with Livingston, Australia’s assistant manager Rene Meulensteen came to watch Dykes play against Celtic in October 2019. The same week, Scotland manager Steve Clarke also contacted Dykes, who "went with my heart and my gut" and chose Scotland.[4] On 25 August 2020, Dykes was named in the Scotland squad for the first time for UEFA Nations League matches versus Israel and the Czech Republic.[22][23] He made had his international debut in a 1–1 draw with Israel on 4 September and then scored his first goal for Scotland a few days later in a 2–1 victory over the Czech Republic.[24][25] On 11 October, Dykes scored the winner in a Nations League match against Slovakia which ended 1–0 after steering home Stephen O'Donnell's low cross.[26]

On 19 May 2021, Dykes was named in Scotland's UEFA Euro 2020 squad after becoming the nation's first choice striker alongside Che Adams.[27] On 14 June, he played 79 minutes of Scotland's opening game which resulted in a 2–0 defeat to the Czech Republic.[28] On 18 June, he played the full 90 minutes in the fixture against England at Wembley Stadium which ended in a 0–0 draw.[29] On 22 June, he started in a 3–1 defeat to Croatia which ended Scotland's Euros campaign.[30]

On 4 September 2021, Dykes scored in the only goal against Moldova in a 2022 World Cup qualifier.[31] Three days later he scored a 30th-minute penalty in another 1–0 win for Scotland, this time away to Austria in the same competition.[32] The following month, Dykes scored in narrow wins over Israel and the Faroe Islands, becoming the first Scotland player to score in four consecutive matches since Colin Stein in 1969.[33]

In a UEFA Nations League match against Ukraine on 21 September 2022, Dykes came off the bench in the 77th minute to score a brace, in the 80th and 87th minutes respectively, to secure a 3–0 win for Scotland.[34]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 8 November 2022[35]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Queen of the South	2016–17[36]	Scottish Championship	30	2	1	0	6	1	3[lower-alpha 1]	1	40	4
	2017–18[37]		34	7	3	0	4	0	3[lower-alpha 1]	1	44	8
	2018–19[38]		36	2	4	1	5	3	7[lower-alpha 2]	4	52	10
	Total		100	11	8	1	15	4	13	6	136	22
Livingston	2019–20[39]	Scottish Premiership	25	9	2	1	6	2	–		33	12
	2020–21[40]		3	2	0	0	0	0	–		3	2
	Total		28	11	2	1	6	2	–		36	14
Queens Park Rangers	2020–21[40]	Championship	42	12	1	0	0	0	–		43	12
	2021–22[41]		33	9	2	1	2	0	–		37	10
	2022–23[42]		20	6	0	0	0	0	–		20	6
	Total	95	26	3	1	2	0	–		100	28
Career total			223	48	13	3	23	7	13	6	272	64

International

As of match played 29 September 2022[43]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Scotland	2020	7	2
	2021	13	4
	2022	5	2
Total		25	8

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dykes goal.

List of international goals scored by Lyndon Dykes

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	7 September 2020	Andrův stadion, Olomouc, Czech Republic	Czech Republic	1–1	2–1	2020–21 UEFA Nations League B
2	11 October 2020	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Slovakia	1–0	1–0
3	4 September 2021	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Moldova	1–0	1–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	7 September 2021	Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria	Austria	1–0	1–0
5	9 October 2021	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Israel	2–2	3–2
6	12 October 2021	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	1–0	1–0
7	21 September 2022	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Ukraine	2–0	3–0	2022–23 UEFA Nations League B
8				3–0

See also

• List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland

References

External links

• Lyndon Dykes at Soccerbase
• Lyndon Dykes at Soccerway

На других языках

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[de] Lyndon Dykes

Lyndon Dykes (* 7. Oktober 1995 in Gold Coast) ist ein australisch-schottischer Fußballspieler, der seit 2020 beim englischen Zweitligisten Queens Park Rangers unter Vertrag steht. Seit 2020 spielt er zudem für die schottische Fußballnationalmannschaft.

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- [en] Lyndon Dykes

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[es] Lyndon Dykes

Lyndon Dykes (Gold Coast, 7 de octubre de 1995) es un futbolista australiano, nacionalizado británico, que juega en la demarcación de delantero para el Queens Park Rangers F. C. de la EFL Championship.

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[fr] Lyndon Dykes

Lyndon Dykes, né le 7 octobre 1995 à Gold Coast, est un footballeur international écossais qui évolue au poste d'avant-centre avec les Queens Park Rangers.

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[it] Lyndon Dykes

Lyndon Dykes (Gold Coast, 7 ottobre 1995) è un calciatore scozzese con passaporto australiano, attaccante del QPR e della nazionale scozzese.

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[ru] Дайкс, Линдон

Линдон Джон Дайкс (англ. Lyndon John Dykes; род. 7 октября 1995[1][2], Голд-Кост, Квинсленд) — шотландский футболист, нападающий клуба «Куинз Парк Рейнджерс» и сборной Шотландии. Участник чемпионата Европы 2020.

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