Ian Duerden

undefined Ian Christopher Duerden (born 27 March 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Burnley, Doncaster Rovers and Halifax Town.

Early Career
Duerden started his career at his home town club of Burnley where he joined the youth team after signing a professional contract. During his youth career, he represented the England U18 national team in 2 friendly matches and was loaned to Glentoran, Bamber Bridge, Southport and Telford United coming back with a good goals return which saw him make his league debut for Burnley, with this being his sole appearance for the club, when he was released and signed by Halifax Town in the summer of 1998. He played a total of 2 appearances before opting to join recently relegated Doncaster Rovers.

Doncaster Rovers
He enjoyed a successful first season with a return of 14 goals in 27 games during the season, despite injury problems. This saw him named the Player of the Year for the 1998/99 season. The following season was hit badly with injuries which saw Ian out for a majority of the season and only managed 4 goals in 18 appearances. Steve Wignall took charge and the following season he was shut out by the new manager despite being fit and was resigned to a place on the bench for much of he season making only 6 subsitute appearances before being loaned out to Kingstonian for the remainder of the season, returning to Belle Vue to score 2 goals against the Rovers, where he was famously applauded by the Rovers fans in a sign of protest against Wignall. Duerden left in the summer of 2001 when his contract expired and joined a host of former Rovers stars at Barrow.

Later Career
Afer joining Barrow, Duerden made a promsing start with a good return of goals per game before another injury put out for a number weeks and he lost his place in the side. He opted to join Hucknall Town in January 2002 but it was brief with a move to Altrincham in the summer of 2002 before retiring from football to take up a job as a Fireman. Duerden went on to represent the England fire service football team.

Honours

 * Doncaster Rovers Player of the Year
 * 1998/1999


 * Doncaster Rovers Golden Boot
 * 1998/1999

Trivia

 * Duerden is 1.88m tall.
 * Duerden has 2 U18's international caps to his name.