Matt Done

Matthew Done (born 22 July 1988) is an English former professional footballer who is a Player Development Phase Coach at club Port Vale.

In a seventeen-year playing career he scored 60 goals in 592 league and cup appearances, playing mostly as a winger or as a striker.

Matthew Done was born in Oswestry on 22 July 1988.

He attended the Marches School and Technology College.

Done started his career at Wrexham through the Centre of Excellence in July 2004 and after progressing through the ranks at the club, he was called up to the first team in the wake of the club's financial trouble.

Done began his career at Wrexham, making his debut at the age of seventeen in August 2005.

He made his full debut on the last day of the 2005–06 season against Darlington.

He made six appearances throughout the campaign and was offered a professional contract by manager Denis Smith.

He established himself in the first team during the 2006–07 and 2006–07 seasons but left the club following their relegation out of the English Football League.

He joined Hereford United for an undisclosed fee and played 64 games over the course of two seasons.

Done broke into the first team squad at the start of the 2006–07 season and scored his first goal for Wrexham in a 3–0 home win over Grimsby Town on 8 August.

He went on to score in a 4–1 win at Sheffield Wednesday in the League Cup on 23 August.

He recovered from an ankle injury, and finished the season with 38 appearances and two goals in all competitions.

In the 2007–08 season, Done continued to be in the first-team regular for the side, though he remained as an unused substitute on several occasions this season, whilst nursing injury concerns.

He was offered a new contract by Wrexham in May 2008 following the club's relegation to the Football Conference.

However, Done left the club after rejecting the offer, with manager Brian Little admitting that Football League clubs had approached him.

On 17 June 2008, Done was signed by League One club Hereford United for an undisclosed fee, where manager Graham Turner had been an admirer for some time.

Done made his Hereford United debut on the opening game of the 2008–09 season in a 2–1 loss at Leyton Orient.

He scored his first goal at Edgar Street in a 2–1 defeat by Swindon Town in the Football League Trophy on 8 October.

After losing his first team place on several occasions during the season, Done managed to regain his first team place and went on to make 39 appearances and score once in all competitions as the club were relegated into League Two.

Done started the opening game of the 2009–10 season against Morecambe and set up one of the goals in a 2–2 draw.

However, he struggled to win starts and spent much of the season on the substitute bench, whilst he also struggled with injury concerns.

As a result, Done made 25 appearances in all competitions and was released by the club at the expiry of his contract.

He spent the 2010–11 campaign with Rochdale, where his performances earned him a move to Championship club Barnsley in June 2011.

On 31 July 2010, Done signed a six-month contract for League One newcomers Rochdale.

He made his Rochdale debut on 10 August, in the first round of the League Cup, in a 1–0 loss at Barnsley.

He scored his first goal for the club in the Football League Trophy, in a 2–1 defeat at Port Vale on 31 August.

It wasn't until on 27 November when he scored again, in a 1–1 draw with Oldham Athletic.

In December, he signed a contract to run until the end of the 2010–11 season.

Done then scored two goals in two matches between 8 February and 12 February in wins over Bristol Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday.

He went on to score goals against Carlisle United and Bournemouth.

By the end of the 2010–11 season, Done had made 35 appearances, scoring five times in all competitions.

He made 47 appearances in two seasons, spending the latter half of the 2012–13 season on loan at Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League.

Released by Barnsley, he rejoined Rochdale in July 2013.

He helped Rochdale to secure promotion out of League Two at the end of the 2013–14 season.

He earned a move to League One rivals Sheffield United in February 2015.

In two-and-a-half seasons with the club, he made 87 appearances and helped United to win promotion as champions of League One at the end of the 2016–17 campaign.

He then joined Rochdale for a third spell in August 2017, where he would remain for another five seasons, making a further 200 appearances before his retirement at the end of the 2021–22 season.

He coached in the academy at Port Vale before being put in joint interim charge of the first team in February 2024.

His debut came a month after his 17th birthday, as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat to Doncaster Rovers at the Racecourse Ground.