Grant McCann

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Personal information
Grant McCann
Full name	Grant Samuel McCann
Date of birth	April 14, 1980 (age 26)
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height	5'10"
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Barnsley
Youth clubs
	West Ham United
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998 – 2002 1999 – 2000 2000 2000 – 2001 2002 – 2006 2006 – present	West Ham United → Livingston (loan) → Notts County (loan) → Cheltenham Town (loan) Cheltenham Town Barnsley	004 0(0) 004 0(0) 002 0(0) 030 0(3) 163 (31) 0011 0(1)
National team²
2001 – present	Northern Ireland	011 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 December 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 9 July 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Grant McCann (born 14 April 1980 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish footballer who currently plays for Barnsley of Football League Championship in England.

McCann, a midfielder, started his career at West Ham United. A product of the club's Academy of Football, he failed to cement a place in the senior squad, and made just four substitute appearances for the East London club.

McCann had loan spells at Livingston and Notts County before moving to Cheltenham, in another loan deal, in 2000.

He made his debut for the Northern Ireland national team on 6 October 2001 in a 1-0 away win against Malta.

After another loan deal took him back to Cheltenham in 2002, the move was made permanent during the January 2003 transfer window. McCann went on to make 155 league appearances for the Gloucestershire club.

He joined Barnsley on loan deadline day, 23 November 2006, in a contract that expired on 1 January 2007. The two clubs agreed a fee of £100,000 and McCann moved to Barnsley permanently on 2 January 2007. This is a record fee for an outbound player at Cheltenham.^[1]

He opened his goalscoring account for Northern Ireland by scoring the last goal, a header, in the 4-1 away win against Lichtenstein on March 24th, 2007.

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Grant McCann career stats at Soccerbase

Barnsley F.C. - Current Squad
1 Colgan \| 2 Hassell \| 3 Heckingbottom \| 4 P. Reid \| 5 Nyatanga \| 7 Togwell \| 8 Hayes \| 9 Ferenczi \| 10 Jones \| 11 Howard \| 13 Rajczi \| 14 Austin \| 15 Kay \| 16 Eckersley \| 18 K. Reid \| 19 Tonge \| 20 Williams \| 21 Richards \| 22 Letheren \| 23 Nardiello \| 24 Coulson \| 25 Devaney \| 28 Joynes \| 30 McCann \| 31 Atkinson \| 36 Lucas \| 37 Mattis \| Manager: Davey