{"id":864538,"date":"2026-08-22T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:10","slug":"youngest-australians-to-play-in-the-premier-league-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864538\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest Australians to play in the Premier League: Full list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucas Herrington made another piece of Australian football history on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 18-year-old made his Premier League debut as newly promoted Hull City hosted Manchester United, just over a week after completing his record-breaking move from Colorado Rapids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He became the third-youngest Australian to play in the Premier League at 18 years and 351 days old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SUPERCOACH EPL: <a href=\"https:\/\/supercoach.com.au\/epl\/classic\/?action=join-league&amp;code=111111&amp;utm_source=360DigitalEditorialLink&amp;utm_medium=Digital&amp;utm_campaign=EPL&amp;utm_content=Football360&amp;sourceCode=SCWEB_EDM_Partners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JOIN THE FOOTBALL360 LEAGUE TODAY AND TAKE ON OUR EXPERTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only two Australians have made their Premier League debuts at a younger age, including one of the greatest players the country has ever produced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry Kewell remains comfortably out in front, having been just 17 when he made his Leeds United debut in 1996, while Aiden O\u2019Neill was also younger than Herrington when he first appeared for Burnley two decades later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herrington moves ahead of the likes of Caleb Watts and Brad Smith, becoming the first Australian teenager to play in the competition since Watts in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, who are the youngest Australians to play in the Premier League?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Football360 has gone through the history books to compile the youngest Australian Premier League debutants and exactly how old they were when they first stepped onto the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kewell \u2013 Leeds United \u2013 17 years, 190 days<\/p>\n<p>Aiden O\u2019Neill \u2013 Burnley \u2013 18 years, 47 days<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Herrington \u2013 Hull City \u2013 18 years, 351 days<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Watts \u2013 Southampton \u2013 19 years, 10 days<\/p>\n<p>Brad Smith \u2013 Liverpool \u2013 19 years, 264 days<\/p>\n<p>Jamie McMaster \u2013 Leeds United \u2013 19 years, 297 days<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lyden \u2013 Aston Villa \u2013 20 years, 15 days<\/p>\n<p>Luke Wilkshire \u2013 Middlesbrough \u2013 20 years, 155 days<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Peupion \u2013 Brighton &amp; Hove Albion \u2013 20 years, 237 days<\/p>\n<p>[your-next-read id=\u201d49933<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Herrington made another piece of Australian football history on Saturday night. The 18-year-old made his Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[313752,64,63,350930,68430,253467,44],"class_list":["post-864538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aiden-oneill","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-harry-kewell","tag-hull-city","tag-lucas-herrington","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}