2012–2013 Ayr United Weight 84 kg Playing position Name Darren Brownlie Position Defender | Number 5 Role Footballer Years Team Height 1.90 m | |
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Date of birth (1994-04-10) 10 April 1994 (age 21) | ||
Place of birth Bellshill, Scotland Current team Queen of the South F.C. | ||
Darren brownlie
Darren Brownlie (born 10 April 1994 in Bellshill, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer who plays for Queen of the South as a centre-back.
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Ayr United
Born in Bellshill, Brownlie started his career at Ayr United. Brownlie debuted for The Honest Men on 8 July 2012 in the first round of the Scottish Challenge Cup, playing the full match of a 3–1 defeat, away to East Stirlingshire. Two weeks later, Brownlie made his first Scottish Football League appearance, playing the full match in a 1–1 Scottish Division Two draw with Stenhousemuir at Somerset Park. In the last of his 16 league games that season, a 2–1 loss at Forfar Athletic, Brownlie was sent off after two bookings: the first for conceding a penalty kick, with a foul on Chris Templeman and the second for dissent after the referee's decision to award the spot kick.
Partick Thistle and Cowdenbeath
In August 2013, Brownlie joined Partick Thistle. Brownlie scored in a 4–0 win over Falkirk for the Firhill club's under-20's that month but did not make a senior appearance and was loaned out to Scottish Championship club Cowdenbeath on 17 January 2014 for the remainder of that season. Brownlie made 11 league appearances for the Blue Brazil and also played their four play-off matches as they retained their status in the second tier of Scottish football, with victories over former club Ayr United and Dunfermline Athletic respectively.
At that end of the season Brownlie joined Cowdenbeath on a permanent deal. Brownlie played 23 league games in a season which ended in relegation, although Brownlie did manage to score his first senior career goal on 14 February 2015, away to Dumbarton in a match the Blue Brazil won 2-1.
Queen of the South
On 17 June 2015, Brownlie returned to the Scottish Championship, after signing for Queen of the South. The Queens manager at that time, James Fowler, had been a team-mate of Brownlie's at Central Park, in a loan spell in Fife in 2014 from parent club Kilmarnock.