Dan Harding
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Andrew Harding
Date of birth	23 December 1983 (1983-12-23) (age 25)
Place of birth	Gloucester, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Southampton
Number	2
Youth career
1999–2002	Brighton & Hove Albion
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002–2005 2005–2006 2006–2009 2008–2009 2009 2009–	Brighton & Hove Albion Leeds United Ipswich Town → Southend United (loan) → Reading (loan) Southampton	67 (1) 20 (0) 73 (1) 19 (1) 03 (0) 21 (2)
National team
	England U21
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Daniel Andrew "Dan" Harding (born 23 December 1983 in Gloucester) is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Southampton. He is also a former England U21 international.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Brighton & Hove Albion 1.2 Leeds United 1.3 Ipswich Town 1.4 Southampton 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Brighton & Hove Albion

Harding joined the Brighton & Hove Albion youth scheme in 1999 aged sixteen. After a successful run in the reserves and the youth side he finally made the left back position at Brighton his own. After an impressive two seasons, and with England's U21 coach Peter Taylor and a host of Premier League clubs taking an interest in him, Harding was preparing to move on.^[1]

[edit] Leeds United

On 7 June 2005, Harding reportedly cut short a holiday, to sign a three year-contract with Leeds United on a free transfer.^[2] Since he was under 24 years-old, Brighton were entitled to compensation which was to be decided by a tribunal. On 28 July, Leeds United were order to pay up to £850,000 in compensation to Brighton. An initial payment of £450,000 was paid by Leeds with a further £400,000 dependant on appearances, international caps and promotion success.^[3]

[edit] Ipswich Town

After only one season at Leeds United, Harding moved to Ipswich Town in a part-exchange deal for Ian Westlake on 4 August, 2006. Leeds also paid Ipswich £400,000 and a further £100,000 was dependant on Westlake's appearances.^[4] After initially playing regularly he lost his place in the team and was transfer listed.

On 7 August, 2008, he moved to Southend United on a six-month loan deal with a view to a permanent move.^[5] On 29 January 2009, he joined Reading on loan for the remainder of the 2008–09 season.^[6] In May 2009, after talks with Ipswich's new manager Roy Keane, Harding was told his contract would not be renewed and that he would be released from the club.^[7]

[edit] Southampton

On 21 July 2009, he signed a two year deal with Southampton, becoming new manager Alan Pardew's first signing.^[8] He scored his first goal for the club in a 1-1 draw with Brentford on 22 August 2009.^[9]

Harding scored his second goal for the club on 12 December against Tranmere Rovers.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dan Harding career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Southampton F.C. – current squad 1 Davis · 2 Harding · 3 Thomas · 4 Saganowski · 5 Perry · 6 Jaïdi · 7 Lambert · 9 Waigo · 10 Wotton · 11 Holmes · 12 Trotman · 13 Forecast · 14 Hammond · 15 Lancashire · 16 Murty · 17 Paterson · 18 Mills · 19 Schneiderlin · 20 Lallana · 22 Molyneux · 23 James · 28 Białkowski · 29 Gobern · 30 Boyle · 31 Doble · 33 Saville · 34 McNish · 35 Mellis · 36 Preen · 37 Antonio · 38 Connolly · Manager: Pardew

Persondata
NAME	Harding, Daniel Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Harding, Dan
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	23 December 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gloucester, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH