Dale Eve

Dale Donald Eve (born 9 February 1995) is a Bermudian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spennymoor Town and the Bermuda national team.

Dale Eve
Personal information
Full name Dale Donald Eve[1]
Date of birth (1995-02-09) 9 February 1995
Place of birth Pembroke Parish, Bermuda
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Spennymoor Town
Youth career
2008–2011 Dandy Town Hornets
2011 Derby County
2011–2012 Stoke City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2016 Stoke City 0 (0)
2013 → Fleetwood Town (loan) 0 (0)
2014 → Nuneaton Town (loan) 2 (0)
2014 → Newcastle Town (loan) 3 (0)
2015 → Congleton Town (loan) 10 (0)
2015 → Forest Green Rovers (loan) 0 (0)
2016 Forest Green Rovers 3 (0)
2016–2017 Dandy Town 8 (0)
2017 Ilkeston 0 (0)
2017 Rushall Olympic 1 (0)
2017–2018 Kidderminster Harriers 1 (0)
2020– Spennymoor Town 13 (0)
National team‡
2011 Bermuda U17 5 (0)
2011– Bermuda 20 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:34, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Career

Stoke City

Eve started playing football for his local side Dandy Town Hornets before moving to England to play for Derby County's youth team. He spent a short time in the East Midlands before being spotted by scouts at Premier League club Stoke City who signed him to on a two-year development contract in June 2011 beating off competition from Manchester City.[2] Eve made his international debut at the age of 16 making him Stoke City's youngest player to be capped taking the record from Hungarian Ádám Vass. In May 2012 Eve signed a two-year professional contract with Stoke.[3]

Eve joined Fleetwood Town on loan in December 2013 and made three substitute appearances on the bench before returning to Stoke City in January 2014.[4] He joined Nuneaton Town on loan in March 2014 and made his debut on 28 March against Braintree Town.[5][6] Speaking after his loan spell at Nuneaton Eve stated that it was a "humbling experience".[7]

In the 2014–15 season, Eve had short loan spells with non-league sides Newcastle Town and Congleton Town.[8][9] Eve joined Forest Green Rovers on a one-month loan in September 2015.[10] He returned to Stoke in November 2015, with his only appearance for Forest Green coming in a FA Cup qualifier against Margate.[11]

Forest Green Rovers

Eve joined Forest Green Rovers on 4 February 2016 on a free transfer.[12][13] He was a part of a squad that reached the 2015-16 National League play-off final at Wembley Stadium, but did not make an appearance in the final as the club lost 3-1 to Grimsby Town to miss out on promotion to the Football League.[14] It was announced on 16 May 2016 that he had been released at the end of his contract at The New Lawn.[15]

Later career

Eve returned to Bermuda for a spell back at Dandy Town but in January 2017 moved back to England to sign for Ilkeston.[16] In October 2017 he spent time on trial at Football League side Walsall.[17] Shortly after he had a spell with Rushall Olympic before moving to Kidderminster Harriers in November 2017.[18]

In February 2020, he joined Spennymoor Town.[19] In May 2020 it was announced that he had extended his stay at Spennymoor.[20]

International career

Eve has progressed through the youth teams of Bermuda and was called up to the senior squad in November 2011.[21] He made his international debut for the "Gombey Warriors" in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Barbados where he came on as a second-half substitute in a 2–1 victory.[22] He appeared again for the national football team in March 2015 playing the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bahamas and keeping a clean sheet in a 3–0 victory.[23] In the next round, he played the second leg match against Guatemala in a 1–0 loss that eliminated Bermuda from the qualifiers.

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 24 October 2015[24]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Stoke City 2013–14 Premier League 0000000000
Fleetwood Town (loan) 2013–14 League Two 0000000000
Nuneaton Town (loan) 2013–14 Conference Premier 2000000020
Forest Green Rovers (loan) 2015–16 National League 0010000010
Career total 2010000030

International
As of match played 29 May 2020[25]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Bermuda
201110
201530
201630
201820
2019110
Total150

References
  1. "List of players registered as scholars" (PDF). The FA. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  2. "Keeper Eve vows to take his Bermuda chance". royalgazette.com. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  3. Wright, Stephen. "Keeper Eve earns deal with Premier side Stoke". Royal Gazette. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  4. "Bermuda - D. Eve". Soccerway. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  5. "Braintree Town 2-1 Nuneaton Town". BBC Sport. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  6. "Stoke City: Rookie keeper Dale Eve joins Nuneaton on loan". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  7. "Eve keen to learn the hard way". Royal Gazette. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  8. "Eve makes loan move". Royal Gazette. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  9. "Eve sent out on loan". Royal Gazette. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  10. "Dale Eve joins former Potters coach at Forest Green Rovers". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  11. "On-loan Forest Green goalkeeper Dale Eve returns to Premier League Stoke City". Stroud News & Journal. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  12. "Forest Green re-sign former Stoke City goalkeeper Dale Eve on permanent deal". Stroud News & Journal. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  13. "Dale Eve makes New Lawn return". FGR. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  14. "Forest Green Rovers 1-3 Grimsby Town". BBC Sport. 15 May 2016.
  15. "Darren Carter: Forest Green Rovers have 'unfinished business' in National League". BBC Sport. 16 May 2016.
  16. "Eve enjoys impressive Ilkeston debut". Royal Gazette.
  17. "Eve looking to impress at Walsall". Royal Gazette. 6 October 2017.
  18. "Kidderminster sign Bermudan keeper Eve". Non League Daily.
  19. "Dale Eve Signs With Spennymoor Town FC". Ber News. 11 February 2020.
  20. "Bermuda keeper Eve extends Spennymoor stay". Non League Daily. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  21. "Young keeper Eve called up by Bermuda". thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  22. "Bermuda v Barbados". FIFA. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  23. https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=274825/match=300310107/report.html
  24. "Dale Eve". Soccerbase. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  25. "Eve, Dale". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
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