Andros Townsend

Andros Darryl Townsend Sr (born 16 July 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for club Luton Town.

In March 2009, he went on loan to Yeovil Town, making his football league debut against Milton Keynes Dons alongside fellow Spurs academy player Jonathan Obika.

He made ten appearances and scored one goal for Yeovil as they avoided relegation.

Townsend entered the senior Tottenham team under manager Harry Redknapp.

In August 2009, he went on a month's loan to League One club Leyton Orient, extended at the end of the month to the end of December, after which he returned to Tottenham.

In 26 appearances for Orient, Townsend scored twice, including a "great goal" in a 3–3 draw against Yeovil, passing three opposing players with a run that began in his own half, leading the opposition manager to lament that his players had not been more ruthless and taken him down with a professional foul.

Having not yet made his Tottenham debut, on 14 January 2010, Townsend was again taken on loan by a League One club, Milton Keynes Dons, until the end of the season, although he was recalled after just two months due to injuries.

In nine matches for the Dons he had scored twice.

The season ended without Townsend having made his debut for Tottenham.

On 12 August 2010, Townsend signed another season-long loan, moving up to the Championship level with Ipswich Town, but this was terminated on 20 December, as Redknapp believed he had not been playing regularly enough.

He had played 16 times, scoring once.

On 9 January 2011, Townsend made his senior Tottenham debut in a third round FA Cup tie at White Hart Lane against Charlton Athletic; he scored the first goal and was voted Man of the Match.

This proved to be his only appearance for Tottenham for the rest of the season, with two further loan spells occurring.

He joined Championship club Watford on 20 January 2011 on loan until the end of the season, but this was terminated early, on 23 February, with Townsend having made three appearances.

On 7 March, Townsend again went on loan to a Championship club until the end of the season, this time Millwall.

By April he said he would be happy to stay at the club beyond his loan spell.

In 11 appearances he scored twice.

For the first half of Tottenham's 2011–12 season, Townsend was a regular in their Europa League campaign, making six appearances in the competition.

He scored his second goal for the club in their final match in the competition, against Shamrock Rovers on 15 December 2011, with a curled shot from outside the box.

A graduate of the Tottenham Hotspur academy, Townsend was initially loaned out to several League One and then Championship clubs alongside limited Tottenham appearances, before making his Premier League debut in September 2012.

With only one other appearance for Tottenham, in the League Cup, on 1 January 2012, Townsend joined Championship club Leeds United on loan until the end of the season, but with his agent claiming he was unhappy at the club, he switched the loan to their Championship rivals Birmingham City in February.

For Leeds, he made seven appearances, including what he described as "a dream debut", and scored once.

For Birmingham, he made fifteen league appearances and one in the second leg of their unsuccessful promotion play-off semi-final against Blackpool.

Townsend remained with Tottenham for the first half of their 2012–13 season, with the club now under a new manager, André Villas-Boas, who replaced Redknapp in the summer.

He made his Premier League debut with a late substitution appearance on 16 September.

Although appearing a further four times in the Premier League, these were all still late substitute appearances.

Outside the league he made a further five appearances, once in the League Cup and FA Cup respectively, and three times in the Europa League.

He scored his third Tottenham goal with a "superb low left-foot shot into the bottom corner from just outside the area" in a 3–0 victory against Carlisle United in the League Cup third round.

After further limited appearances and then a half-season loan to Premier League club Queens Park Rangers, Townsend established himself as a Tottenham player between 2013 and 2015.

Townsend earned his first England cap on 11 October 2013, and made 13 appearances in his senior international career, scoring three goals.

Townsend joined the Tottenham Hotspur academy at the age of eight.

On 31 January 2013, Townsend followed Redknapp to Premier League club Queens Park Rangers on loan until the end of the season.

He made twelve appearances for the club, including a Man of the Match performance on his debut, scoring two goals in March, a dipping volley from outside the penalty area in a 3–1 win at home to Sunderland, and an equalising deflection in a 3–2 away loss to Aston Villa.

QPR were ultimately relegated, and Townsend returned to his parent club.

Now back at Tottenham, Townsend started the second Premier League match of their 2013–14 season, and went on to make a total of 33 appearances, including 25 in the league.

He scored twice, in a 5–0 away victory over Dinamo Tbilisi in the Europa League (his first match of the season), and his first in the Premier League in a 2–0 victory away to Aston Villa on 20 October 2013.

He subsequently fell out of favour at Tottenham, and following a short spell at Newcastle United in the 2015–16 season, he transferred to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2016.

After five years at Palace, he departed for Everton in 2021, though his time at the club was hampered by a long-term injury sustained in 2022.

Upon his release from Everton in 2023, he joined Luton Town.

On 23 December, he signed a contract extension, making him a Tottenham player until the end of the 2016 season.