Turner: Nathan
2010-Current
(Leeds Player Details)
(Player Details)
Left Back
Born: Garforth: 03-09-1992
Debut: Nil
Height & Weight: Unknown
Both Nathan and his twin brother Lewis attended Boston Spa School and both joined the
Leeds United Academy at the age of nine in 2001. Each progressed through Boston Spa School
and the Leeds Academy and at school they both gained a BTEC National Diploma in Sport
Studies, while they also taken on as Juniors and then progressed through to the Reserve
team at an early age. They were taken on a full-time contract by Leeds United in May 2011,
after being a regulars with the Leeds United Academy since they were nine and being
regulars in the Under-eighteen side and the Reserves. Nathan like his brother is adept in
several defensive positions but settled in at left-midfield. Both twins were involved in
the pre-season games, but mainly with the Reserves. Both twins travelled with the first
team, towards the end of the 2011-12 season but neither made the bench. Both signed an
extension of their contracts in May 2012 for another year, with an option of a further
year. Both boys and the club hope that they can progress from the Junior to the Senior
team similar to other players, such as Tom Lees and Aidan White, but it may mean gaining
experience on loan with other clubs, which has been the path of other young prospects in
recent years. Nathan went on a month's loan to Conference North side Chester FC in
December 2012, making his debut as a seventy-sixth minute substitute in a 3-2 away win at
Brackley Town on 8th December 2012. There were two further seventy-ninth minute
appearances as a substitute in home wins over Bishop's Strortford and Hinkley United,
before he made his run-on debut at Droylsden in a 4-3 win on 1st January 2013, and he
scored in the forty-first minute before being substituted in the seventy-seventh minute.
His loan was extended to the end of the season and he was joined by his twin brother Lewis
to help Chester FC gain promotion to the Conference Premier League as champions of the
Conference North. He started fifteen Conference North games and also five games from the
bench, scoring just the one goal. Both Lewis and his brother Nathan signed a one year loan
with Chester for the 2013-14 season.