Dallas: Stuart Alan (Stuart)

2015-Current (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Winger/Midfield

Born: Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland: 19-04-1991

Debut: v Burnley (h): 08-08-2015

6' 0' 12st 11lb (2015)

Born in Cookstown, County Tyrone grew up in his hometown and was educated at Cookstown Primary School and then Cookstown High School. He represented the High School and won the Under-Fourteen and Under-Fifteen Coleraine and District League titles in 2004 and 2005 and went on to play for local side Coagh United. It was while at Coagh United that Dallas gained his first representative honours when he gained three Northern Ireland Junior Caps, making his debut in the first game of the Umbro Quadrangular Tournament on 21st April 2010 at Drumaness Mills in a 0-2 defeat by Scotland. The following day he scored in the sixty-eighth minute to equalise a goal in the fifteenth minute by Michael Duffy of the Republic of Ireland in a 1-1 draw at the Banbridge Town FC ground. In the third game on 24th April 2010 at Drumaness Mills there was a 1-1 draw with The Isle of Man, as Northern Ireland finished fourth, level on two points with The Isle of Man, who had a better goal difference, while Scotland topped the table with seven points and the Republic of Ireland were runners-up on four points. After a fine season with Coagh United in the 2009-10 season, he signed for Crusaders in the close season. He made his debut for Crusaders in a 3-1 away win over Donegal Celtic on 7th August 2010, playing seventy-two minutes before being replaced by David McMaster. He scored his first goal in a 3-0 win at Coleraine in his third match for the club on 21st August 2010, opening the scoring in the twenty-fifth minute, and adding his second, in scoring Crusaders third goal in the eighty-fourth minute. He was a regular for Crusaders in the Right Wing spot and scored sixteen goals in thirty-six appearances as they finished runners-up to Linfield and qualified for the Europa League the following season. Crusaders also finished as Runners-Up in the Irish Cup as they were beaten in the final, 1-2, by Linfield at Windsor Park on 7th May 2011. He also scored twice in five Irish Cup ties and none in three Irish League Cup ties. The season was a personal triumph for Dallas, who won six prizes at the Annual Player of the Year awards, winning Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards. There was also international recognition for three of the club's players as Colin Coates, Stuart Dallas and Jordan Owens were called up to the Northern Ireland squad for the Nations Cup games with the Republic of Ireland and Wales. Colin Coates appeared in both games while Owens and Dallas featured as substitutes in the game against Wales at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on 27th May 2011, as they went down 0-2 to Wales, with Dallas coming on as a sixty-second minute replacement for Craig Cathcart, after being an unused substitute in the 0-5 loss to the Republic of Ireland at Landsdowne Road three days previously. Dallas had also been selected for the Northern Ireland Under-Twenty-Three side in the International Challenge Trophy on 13th October 2010 in a 0-2 away defeat by Portugal. In his second season with Crusaders, Dallas started thirty League games and came off the bench in two, while scoring eight goals. He also started four Irish Cup ties without scoring and scored twice in four Irish League Cup ties. He also started the two Europa League games with Fulham which saw the Irish team outclassed by the London side, losing 1-3 at home and 0-4 at Fulham and The Crusaders finished fifth in the league and on 28th January 2012 they defeated Coleraine 1-0 at the Ballymena Showgrounds to win the Irish League Cup, and they also won the Setanta Sports Cup when the beat Derry City 5-4 on penalties after they had been level 2-2 after extra time at The Oval, Belfast on 12th May 2012. For the second consecutive season Crusaders also finished as Runners-Up in the Irish Cup as they were beaten 1-4 in the final by Linfield at Windsor Park on 5th May 2012. During the season he gained his first Northern Ireland Under- Twenty-One cap on 6th September 2011 in a 0-3 home defeat by Denmark. He left the Crusaders for English League One side Brentford on 1st August 2012. In his two seasons with the Crusaders he started sixty-six League games and came on twice as a substitute, scoring twenty-four goals. In the Cups he started nine in the Irish Cup, scoring twice, while in the Irish League Cup he scored twice in seven starts. He also made five starts in the Setanta Sports Cup and two in the Europa League without scoring. He did not gain first team recognition initially at Griffin Park, but had to watch from the bench in five of the first eleven League fixtures and the first League Cup before he was given a chance to show his ability on the pitch. His first chance came on 9th October 2012 in a 1-0 win over Crawley Town in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy when he replaced Scott Barron with fifteen minutes left on the clock. He made his League debut four days later when he replaced Harry Forrester after eighty-seven minutes in a 1-1 draw at Scunthorpe United, which was followed by another substitute appearance a week later in a 1-2 loss to Doncaster Rovers at the Keepmoat Stadium when he replaced Tom Adeyemi after seventy-nine minutes. One more substitute appearance in the League and three in the F.A. Cup followed before he finally made his starting debut, in the League, on 29th December 2012 in a 0-0 draw at Shrewsbury Town, when he was replaced in the sixty-fifth minute by Adam Forshaw. He made his only full game appearance on 9th March 2013 in a 0-2 loss at Carlisle United. He started three League games, came on as a Substitute in four and sat unused On the bench in eighteen, while he came of the bench once and remained unused once in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, started one, was a substitute twice and remained on the bench once in the F.A. Cup and sat on the bench once in the League Cup. On 15th August 2012, he gained his second and final Northern Ireland Under-Twenty-One cap in a 2-3 defeat by Hungary at Tatabanya, Budapest in a friendly. On 6th August 2013 he played a full game in the 3-2 home win over Dagenham & Redbridge FC in the League Cup and on 27th August 2013 he similarly stayed the distance in a 0-5 defeat by Derby County in the same competition, and on 3rd September 2013 he played a full game in the 5-3 home win over AFC Wimbledon in a Johnstone's Paint Trophy tie, but apart from that he had managed just two games from the bench in the first ten League games of the year and sat once unused, before being loaned to League Two Northampton Town on 1st October 2013. He was off to a flying start as in his first game four days later he came on as a fifty-seventh minute substitute for Chris Hackett and scored the Cobblers' second goal in the seventy-third minute in a 2-0 win at AFC Wimbledon. He made his starting debut on 12th October in a 0-2 defeat at Oxford United and went on to score three goals in ten starts and two games from the bench in the League before returning to Griffin Park on 25th December 2013. He went straight into the squad for the Boxing Day 3-2 home win over Swindon Town and five minutes before half-time he got his chance when he replaced the injured Will Grigg. While still not assured of a starting spot he did feature in the squad and towards the end of the season he gained a regular starting spot and scored his first goal for the Bees, when he scored in the penultimate game of the season as Brentford went down 1-4 at Colchester United on 26th April 2014 when he scored in first-half injury time. It proved to be his only Brentford goal in the 2013-14 season in which they gained promotion to the Championship as runners-up to Wolverhampton Wanderers and he started six, came off the bench twelve times and was unused nine times in the League, started one Football League Trophy tie, and two League Cup ties. On 26th June 2014 Dallas signed a one year extension to his Brentford contract taking it to the end of the 2016-17 season. The 2014-15 season saw him become a first-team regular and in the League he scored eight goals in starting twenty-three, coming on as a substitute fifteen times and remaining on the bench once and being injured for the other seven. Brentford came fifth in their first season back in the Championship and he also twice came off the bench in the play-off semi-finals in which they were eliminated by Middlesbrough. Dallas also came off the bench once in the F.A. Cup, and scored twice in two substitute appearances in the League Cup. His form with Brentford had been so good that it saw him return to the Northern Ireland International team. On 25th March 2015 he played a full game at Hampden Park in a 0-1 defeat by Scotland in a friendly and four days later he came on as a sixty- fourth minute substitute for Niall McGinn in a 2-1 win over Finland at Windsor Park in a European Group Qualifier. His fourth cap saw him score his first full international goal on 31st May 2015, when after starting the game he scored in the first minute of the second half to give Northern Ireland the lead in a 1-1 draw with Qatar at Gresty Road, Crewe. Four days later he played a full game in a 0-0 draw with the Republic of Ireland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, which was held behind closed doors and did not count as an official international. On 13th June 2014 he gained his fifth cap in a 0-0 draw in a Group F European Qualifier at Windsor Park against Romania. Dallas still had one year left on his Brentford contract and on 1st August 2015 he told the new Brentford coach he did not want to sign a further extension to his existing contract and it looked likely that he would leave the club. In his time at Griffin Park he had scored eight goals in thirty-two starts and thirty-one games from the bench in the League, started one and came off the bench three times, without scoring in the F.A. Cup, scored twice in four starts in the League Cup, and started one and came off the bench once in the Football League Trophy and came on twice as a substitute in the Championship play- offs, without scoring. On 4th August 2015, former Brentford coach, Uwe Rosler, who had originally brought him from Ireland, signed him on a three year contract for £1.3 million, for his new club, Leeds United. He made his debut for Leeds in the opening game of the season in a 0-0 draw with Burnley at Elland Road and established himself as a regular starter in the first team. He took his international total to seven with two further games in the Group F European Cup Qualifiers in a 3-1 win at Torsvollur, Gundadalur, Torshavn over Faroe Islands on 4th September 2014, when he played a full game, and three days later at Windsor Park he started in a 1-1 draw with Hungary and came off with six minutes left on the clock when he was replaced by Shane Ferguson. He established himself as a regular in the Leeds first team mainly in the left wing midfield role but adapted to the various tactical requirements of Steve Evans after he had replaced Uwe Rosler. His first goal came with a fine powerful shot in the fifty-first minute of the outstanding 3-2 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on 17th December 2015.This was followed by a late season surge with the opening goal in the twenty-second minute of a disappointing 1-4 home defeat by local rivals, Huddersfield Town. He then scored both goals in the 2-1 away win at Birmingham Cityon 12th April 2016 in the eleventh and fiftieth minures to give United a 2-0 lead before Birmingham replied with a consolation goal, and on 23rd April he scored a late, eighty-eighth minute, equaliser in a surprise 2-2 draw at Hull City to take his tally for the season to five. He won the club's "Players' Player" award at the end of the season. During the season he added a further six caps to take his tally to thirteen, with two appearances in the European Qualifier and four more in Friendlies. His first cap of the season came on 8th October 2015 in a 3-1 win over Greece at Windsor Park in the Euro Qualifiers and three days later he again had a full game in a 1-1 draw with Finland at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The other four were in Friendlies in which he either came on as a substitute or was replaced. On 13th November 2015 he started in the 1-0 win over Latvia at Windsor Park in which he was replaced by Liam Boyce of Ross County after sixty-nine minutes. On 24th March 2016 he again started in a 1-1 draw with Wales at the Cardiff City Stadium but was replaced by Shane Ferguson of Newcastle United in the eighty-ninth minute. He came from the bench in the sixtieth minute to replaced Shane Ferguson of Newcastle United in a 1-0 win over Slovenia at Windsor Park four days later. On 27th May 2016 he started in the 3-0 win over Belarus at Windsor Park but was replaced by Niall McGinn of Aberdeen in the seventy-fourth minute. He missed parts of the 2016-17 season through injury and also spent eight games unused on the bench, but he added two goals to his League tally with the first goal in the seventy-fourth minute in a 2-1 win at Blackburn on 1st February 2017 and the equaliser in the three minutes before half-time in a 1-1 draw at Ipswich Town on 18th of the same month as he started twenty and came off the bench in eleven games in the League. He also scored a fifty-sixth minute equaliser at Cambridge United in the F.A. Cup on 9th January as United won 2-1 and he started two games in the F. A. Cup and two more in the League Cup without scoring. On the International front, by the start of the 2017-18 season, he had added nine further caps to take his tally to twenty-two. He played four games in the Euro 2016 Championship, starting with a substitute appearance when he replaced Paddy McNair at half-time in a 0-1 loss to Poland at Allianz Riviera in Nice on 12th June 2016. Four days later he played a full game as Northern Ireland defeated Ukraine 2-0 at Stade des Lumieres in Lyon, followed by ninety minutes as Northern Ireland overcame Germany 1-0 at Parc des Princes in Paris on 21st June 2017 to advance to the last sixteen, but they went down 0-1 to Wales at the same venue four days later as Dallas again played a full game. This was followed by four matches in the Group C Qualifiers for the European section of the World Cup. In the first he again had a full game as there was a 0-0 draw with the Czech Republic at Generali Arena in Prague on 4th September 2016. He then started in a 4-0 win over St Marino at Windsor Park on 8th October 2016, but gave way to Conor Washington after sixty-five minutes. He again started in a 2-0 win at Windsor Park over Norway on 26th March 2017 before being replaced with two minutes left on the clock by Matthew Lund. He next started in a Friendly with New Zealand at Windsor Park on 2nd June 2017 before giving way to Paul Paton after seventy-four minutes in a 1-0 home win. It was in preparation for the fourth World Cup Qualifier, four days later at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadion in Baku, which saw them defeat Azerbaijan 1-0 with Dallas scoring the only goal of the game two minutes into injury time at the end of the game. He was again called up for the Northern Ireland team for the Group C World Cup qualifiers and, after rumoured interest from Norwich City, he signed a new three year deal which will keep him at Elland Road until the end of the 2019 -2020 season. In the 2017-18 season he was sometimes unavailable due to injury, mainly in the two months either side of Christmas but still started fourteen and came off the bench in fifteen and was unused on the bench on three occasions in the League and had three starts, playing a full game in each, in the League Cup. He added two goals to his goal tally with the second goal after seventy-six minutes in the 2-0 win at the Stadium of Light over Sunderland on 19th August 2017 and then two minutes into injury time in the 2-0 home win over Birmingham City on 12th September 2017. On the International scene he remained a regular with Northern Ireland adding another ten caps to take his tally to thirty-two. There were four in the World Cup European Qualifiers Group C. On 1st September 2017 he started at Left Midfield in a 3-0 win at the Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle over San Marino, when he was replaced by Niall McGinn after seventy-eight minutes and three days later he started on the Left Wing in the 2-0 win over the Czech Republic at Windsor Park where he was replaced by Kyle Lafferty after seventy-four minutes. On 5th October 2017 he was a Half-Time substitute when he replaced Lee Hodson at the same venue and three days later he started on the Left Wing in a 0-1 defeat by Norway at Ulleval Stadion, Oslo, where he played a full game. This put Northern Ireland in the play-offs where they played a two-legged elimination with Switzerland. He started on the Left Wing in the first game on 9th November 2017 at Windsor Park as the Swiss got the only goal and then he was at Left Midfield in the goalless second leg, three days later at St. Jakob Park, Basel, where he played a full game. Two Friendlies in Central America followed as he started at Left Midfield in the first, at the Estadio Rommel Fernandez Gutierrez in a 0-0 draw with Panama, where he was replaced by Lee Hodson, after fifty-nine minutes. A week later he started at Left Back as Costa Rica defeated them by 0-3 at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose, where he played a full game. There was another full game, this time on the Left Wing, on 8th September 2018 as Bosnia-Herzegovina won 1-2 at Windsor Park and finally he scored his third International goal, when he scored the second goal in the forty-first minute, at the same venue three days later in a friendly with Israel, in which he started on the Right Wing in a 3-0 win and played seventy-seven minutes before being replaced by Shane Ferguson.

(To 2017/18)