Jacob Bedeau
Personal information
Full name Jacob Mitchell Bedeau[1]
Date of birth (1999-12-24) 24 December 1999[2]
Place of birth Waltham Forest, England
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Morecambe
Number 4
Youth career
0000–2016 Leyton Orient
2016–2017 Bury
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Bury 7 (0)
2017–2019 Aston Villa 0 (0)
2019–2021 Scunthorpe United 45 (2)
2021–2022 Burnley 0 (0)
2022 → Morecambe (loan) 22 (0)
2022– Morecambe 62 (2)
International career‡
2023– Grenada 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:50, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Jacob Mitchell Bedeau (born 24 December 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Morecambe. Born in England he plays for the Grenada national team.

Club career

Bury

Bedeau is a product of the Leyton Orient and Bury football academies, after impressing at a young age for Bury, debuting at sixteen. Bedeau was given his professional debut by caretaker-manager Chris Brass at the age of 16 in a League One tie against Millwall, in which Bury suffered a 3–2 defeat.[3] After appearing on the Bury bench several times, Bedeau was given his next start in a 4–2 defeat against Bristol Rovers.[4] He played a total of seven games for Bury.

Aston Villa

On 31 January 2017, Bedeau joined Championship club Aston Villa on a two-and-a-half-year deal for a fee around the margin of £900,000.[5] Bedeau did not make any first team appearances in competitive games for Aston Villa, but was a main stay of the Under-23 squad, with 42 appearances, excluding cup matches. In his first full season with the 23s (2017–18) they won the Premier League Cup and finished runners up in the league.[6] In one of his last appearances, he captained the squad to a 5–1 victory over Manchester United U23s.[7]

Scunthorpe United

On 31 January 2019, Bedeau joined League One side Scunthorpe United.[8] He started sparingly, making his debut in September 2019 in a 1–1 draw against Leicester City U21s, in the Football League Trophy.[9] He started only two more games that calendar year, against Sunderland (in the Football League Trophy);[10] and Walsall (in League Two).[11] However, he became a regular starter by the end of the 2019–20 season and into the 2020–21 season. He scored his first professional goal in a 2–2 draw against Crewe Alexandra.[12] He scored again in a 2–0 win against Oldham Athletic.[13] He made a total of 53 appearances for Scunthorpe, 45 of them being in the league. He was one of 17 players released by Scunthorpe at the end of the 2020–21 season.[14]

Burnley

Following his release from Scunthorpe he signed for Burnley on a two-year deal with the option of a further 12-months and was placed into the Under-23 squad.[15]

Morecambe

On 4 January 2022, Bedeau joined EFL League One side Morecambe on loan for the remainder of the 2021–22 season.[16] He started Morecambe's next game, which was a FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur. Bedeau managed to keep a clean sheet, but came off after 65 minutes.[17] Morecambe eventually lost 3–1.[18] On 9 August 2022, Bedeau made his loan move to Morecambe permanent for an undisclosed fee.[19]

International career

Born in England, Bedeau is of Grenadian descent. He was called up to the Grenada national team for a set of 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League matches in September 2023.[20]

Career statistics

As of match played 7 January 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup EFL Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bury 2016–17[21] League One 7000000070
Aston Villa 2016–17[21] Championship 00———00
2017–18[22] Championship 0000000000
2018–19[23] Championship 000000—00
Total 0000000000
Scunthorpe United 2018–19[23] League One 00———00
2019–20[24] League Two 11100004[lower-alpha 1]0151
2020–21[25] League Two 34110102[lower-alpha 2]0381
Total 452101060532
Burnley 2021–22[26] Premier League 00—00—00
Morecambe (loan) 2021–22[26] League One 22010——230
Morecambe 2022–23[27] League One 230102030290
Career total 9723030901122
  1. ↑ Appearances in EFL Trophy
  2. ↑ Appearances in EFL Trophy

References

  1. ↑ "Club list of registered players: As at 19th May 2018: Aston Villa" (PDF). English Football League. p. 2. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Jacob Bedeau". 11v11. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bury vs. Millwall". Soccerway. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Bristol Rovers vs. Bury". Soccerway. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Jacob Bedeau: Aston Villa sign teenage Bury defender". BBC Sport. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Aston Villa Under-23s 2017-18". Youth Hawk. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "THE VERDICT: ASTON VILLA U23S 5-1 MANCHESTER UNITED U23S". AVFC. 7 January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "TRANSFER NEWS: JACOB BEDEAU JOINS SCUNTHORPE UNITED". AVFC. 31 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Scun 1 - 1 LEI". ESPN. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Best, Ceara (12 November 2019). "Report: Iron 3-0 Sunderland". Scunthorpe-United. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Scunthorpe United 0-2 Walsall". BBC. 26 December 2019. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "Bedeau reflects on first professional goal". Scunthorpe-United. 28 January 2020. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "🥅⚽ Goal: Jacob Bedeau v Oldham Athletic (A)". One Football. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  14. ↑ Green, Trevor (13 May 2021). "Scunthorpe United release 17 players including several key men". Grimsby Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  15. ↑ "SECOND NEW ARRIVAL AS JACOB JOINS". Burnley F.C. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  16. ↑ "Jacob Bedeau: Morecambe sign Burnley defender on loan to end of the season". BBC Sport. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  17. ↑ De Cosemo, Harry (9 January 2022). "Tottenham 3-1 Morecambe". BBC. Archived from the original on 14 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  18. ↑ "Tottenham 3-1 Morecambe: Spurs avoid FA Cup third round scare as Tanguy Ndombele booed by crowd". Sky Sports. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  19. ↑ "Morecambe sign Burnley's Bedeau on permanent deal". BBC Sport. 9 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  20. ↑ "Four Shrimps get International Recognition". www.morecambefc.com.
  21. 1 2 "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  22. ↑ "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  23. 1 2 "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  24. ↑ "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  25. ↑ "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  26. 1 2 "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  27. ↑ "Games played by Jacob Bedeau in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
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