2025–26 Burton Albion F.C. season

Burton Albion

2025–26 season
Owner	Nordic Football Group
Chairman	Wouter Gudde (Interim)
Manager	Gary Bowyer
Stadium	Pirelli Stadium
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2025–26 season is the 76th season in the history of Burton Albion Football Club and their eighth consecutive season in League One. In addition to the domestic league, the club would also participate in the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, and the EFL Trophy.

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2025	CF	Jake Beesley	Blackpool	Undisclosed	[1]
30 June 2025	GK	Jordan Amissah	Ross County		[2]
1 July 2025[a]	CF	Fábio Tavares	Coventry City	Free	[3]
1 July 2025[b]	LB	Dylan Williams	Chelsea		[4]
10 July 2025	CB	Toby Sibbick	Wigan Athletic	Undisclosed	[5]
25 July 2025	RB	Kyran Lofthouse	Barnsley		[6]
30 July 2025	RW	Tyrese Shade	Eastleigh		[7]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
26 July 2025	CF	Rumarn Burrell	Queens Park Rangers	Undisclosed	[8]
30 July 2025		Danilo Orsi	AFC Wimbledon		[9]

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
23 June 2025	CM	JJ McKiernan	Lincoln City	31 May 2026	[10]
13 August 2025	LB	Sebastian Revan	Wrexham	31 May 2026	[11][12][13]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
2 July 2025	CB	Alex Bannon	Derry City	30 June 2026	[14]
31 July 2025	LW	Tomas Kalinauskas	Kalmar	30 November 2025	[15]
2 August 2025	CF	Jack Cooper-Love	Roda JC Kerkrade	31 May 2026	[16]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	LW	Mason Bennett	Harrogate Town	1 July 2025	[17][18]
	CF	Jón Daði Böðvarsson	Selfoss		[19][20]
	GK	Max Crocombe	Millwall		[21]
	CF	Dylan Scott	Stalybridge Celtic		[17][22]
		Jack Stretton	Morecambe		[17][23]
	CB	Ryan Sweeney	Mansfield Town		[24]
	DM	Elliot Watt	Motherwell		[25]
	RM	Anthony Forde			[17]
	CB	Cameron Gilbert			[17]
		Toby Oakes			[17]
21 July 2025	RW	Billy Bodin	Swindon Town	21 July 2025	[26]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contract until	Ref.
18 June 2025	CM	Kegs Chauke	30 June 2027	[27]
19 June 2025	CB	Finn Delap		[28]
24 June 2025	GK	Kamil Dudek		[29]

On 9 June, Burton Albion announced their first pre-season fixture, against Derby County for the Bass Charity Vase.^[30] A day later, two further friendlies were confirmed against Alfreton Town and Sheffield United.^[31][32] A fourth fixture was shortly added after, against Birmingham City.^[33] On 17 June, a fifth friendly was confirmed, against Chesterfield.^[34]

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On 26 June, the League One fixtures were announced.^[36]

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Burton were drawn away to Tranmere Rovers in the first round^[41][42] and at home to Lincoln City in the second round.^[43]

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Burton were drawn against Chesterfield, Crewe Alexandra and Liverpool U21 in the group stage.^[45]

As of match played 19 August 2025

Players with no appearances are not included on the list

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		League One		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	ENG	Udoka Godwin-Malife	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
3	DF	SCO	Jack Armer	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
4	MF	RSA	Kegs Chauke	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
6	DF	UGA	Toby Sibbick	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
7	MF	NIR	JJ McKiernan	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
8	MF	ENG	Charlie Webster	3	2	3+0	2	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	ENG	Jake Beesley	3	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	FW	SKN	Tyrese Shade	4	0	0+3	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
11	FW	POR	Fábio Tavares	4	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
14	DF	USA	Nick Akoto	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
15	DF	ENG	Kyran Lofthouse	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
18	DF	ENG	Jasper Moon	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
19	DF	ENG	Dylan Williams	3	0	1+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
20	DF	ENG	Jason Sraha	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
21	GK	GHA	Jordan Amissah	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
22	FW	SWE	Julian Larsson	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
23	DF	ENG	Sebastian Revan	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
25	MF	IRL	Ciaran Gilligan	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
26	DF	ENG	Finn Delap	2	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
27	GK	POL	Kamil Dudek	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
33	DF	ALB	Geraldo Bajrami	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
34	MF	ENG	Ben Whitfield	1	1	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1	0+0	0
38	FW	ENG	Jack Newall	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
39	DF	ENG	Josh Taroni	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
41	FW	ENG	Bubba Krubally	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0