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Brian Deane Quiz
Which clubs did Brian Deane play for?
Brian Deane turned out for 8 clubs across his senior career:
Doncaster Rovers · Sheffield United · Leeds United · Middlesbrough · Benfica · Leicester City · West Ham United · Sunderland
In order, that career path reads: Doncaster Rovers → Sheffield United → Leeds United → Middlesbrough → Benfica → Leicester City → West Ham United → Sunderland. Every club listed here is checked against Brian Deane's own Wikipedia article before it is published, so the career path you see is the one you can verify.
Can you name him from the clubs alone?
That sequence is the basis of our most-played format: the clubs appear one by one and you name the player before the last one lands. Brian Deane is one of 801 careers in the database, and with 8 clubs his path gives more away than most — the median player in our data has 5 — so this one is on the kinder side.
Where Brian Deane played
Those 8 clubs span 2 countries — England, Portugal, across League One, Premier League, Primeira Liga. A career spent largely in one country is harder than it sounds to place — the clue is the order, not the badge.
Brian Deane in the quiz
He turns up in the career-path round, the club quizzes for Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield United, and the open search — type his name and the site builds a quiz around him on the spot. English striker, and one of the England players in the database.
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Play the Brian Deane Quiz →Brian Deane's clubs, one by one
Doncaster Rovers — England, League One. Also in the quiz from Doncaster Rovers: El-Hadji Diouf, Quinton Fortune, Neil Sullivan.
Sheffield United — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Sheffield United: Don Hutchison, Panagiotis Retsos, Nathan Blake.
Leeds United — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Leeds United: Robbie Keane, Robbie Fowler, El-Hadji Diouf.
Middlesbrough — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Middlesbrough: Yakubu, Álvaro Negredo, Boudewijn Zenden.
Benfica — Portugal, Primeira Liga. Also in the quiz from Benfica: Ángel Di María, David Luiz, Anderson Talisca.
Leicester City — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Leicester City: Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kanté, Shinji Okazaki.
West Ham United — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from West Ham United: Jermaine Defoe, Alex Song, Andy Carroll.
Sunderland — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Sunderland: Asamoah Gyan, Jermaine Defoe, Djibril Cissé.
Other England players in the quiz
David Beckham · Wayne Rooney · Frank Lampard · Michael Owen · Danny Welbeck · Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain · Ben Foster · Ashley Young
Players who shared a club with Brian Deane
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