Biography
Midfielder Kane signed for City on a half-season loan in early January 2020 and made his debut for the club in the FA Cup Third Round against Rotherham. Kane was well-known to manager Grant McCann, who had the player on-loan at Doncaster the previous season. After a handful of appearances with variable success, Kane was injured and missed several months before returning for the post-COVID19 summer sprint to the end of the season, scoring his first City goal with a delightful pea-roller free kick under a leaping Birmingham City wall and curling in a fine free kick days later against Middlesbrough. Alas a hamstring injury in that game again ended his season as the Tigers slipped into League One.
Kane was born in Bristol and joined Bristol City as a teenager, before switching to Liverpool at the age of 14. He was identified early in his time at Anfield as one to watch but didn’t make his debut for the Reds’ first team until September 2019, in a League Cup tie against Milton Keynes Dons, then played again in the same competition against Aston Villa on a December 2019 where the Reds had European Cup tie on the same night. Prior to these Liverpool appearances Herbie spent 2018/19 season on loan at Doncaster Rovers where he scored seven times in 49 appearances.
In October 2020 he signed a permanent deal at Barnsley in return for a £1.25m fee. In his first season he made 24 appearances for the Tykes, mostly of the bench, but drifted out of the first team from February 2021 onwards as Barnsley made an unlikely push for the play-offs that ended in semi-final defeat against Swansea City. In August 2021, after a solitary EFL Cup appearance for Barnsley, Kane joined League One side Oxford United on a season long loan, making 37 appearances. Returning to Barnsley for the 2022/23 season he became a pivotal part of manager Michael Duff’s first XI, scoring four goals in 48 appearances as the Tykes reached the League One play-off final only to lose narrowly at Wembley to Sheffield Wednesday. He remained an important part of the Tykes first team during the 2023/24 season as new manager Neill Collins launched another promotion bid, only to once again fall short in the play-offs. Kane left Barnsley in May 2024 having scored fourteen goals in 123 appearances for the club.
In July 2024 Herbie signed for newly relegated League One side Huddersfield Town and debuted for the Terriers in August 2024 against Peterborough United.
Kane was a regular for England’s youth setup from a young age. He debuted for the Under-16s in November 2013 against Northern Ireland and added four more Under-16 appearances during the 2013/14 season. He made his debut for England Under-17s in July 2014 against Iceland and over the next fifteen months he took his taly to 15 appearances, culminating in three starts during the 2015 Under-17 World Cup Finals hosted by Chile. He made three appearances for the England Under-18 side during the 2015/16 season, debuting against Netherlands in September 2015.
Details
Nationality: England
Date/Place of Birth: 23 November 1998, Bristol
Hull City First Game: 4 January 2020, Rotherham United A (FA Cup Third Round), 21 years, 42 days old
Hull City Final Game: 2 July 2020, Middlesbrough H (Championship), 21 years, 22 days old
Clubs
Liverpool (2014-2020), Doncaster Rovers (2018-2019, loan), Hull City (2020, loan), Barnsley (2020-2024), Oxford United (2021-2022, loan), Huddersfield Town (2024-current)
Hull City Record
Career: 9 apps, 2 goals
Herbie Kane| Season | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 6 (1) | 2 | 2 (0) | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |