Rostyn Griffiths

Rostyn Griffiths
Griffiths in the North Queensland Jersey (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Rostyn John Griffiths
birthday	March 10, 1988
place of birth	Stoke-on-Trent ,  England
size	185 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	ECU Joondalup
2004-2007	Blackburn Rovers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2009	Blackburn Rovers	0 (0)
2008	→  FC Gretna  (loan)	12 (0)
2008	→  Accrington Stanley  (loan)	13 (1)
2009	Adelaide United	2 (0)
2009-2010	North Queensland Fury	23 (2)
2010–2012	Central Coast Mariners	48 (4)
2012-2014	Guangzhou R&F FC	35 (1)
2014-2015	Perth Glory	35 (5)
2015-2016	Roda Kerkrade	18 (2)
2016-2017	Perth Glory	24 (3)
2017–	Paxtakor Tashkent	7 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Australia U17
1 Only league games are given. As of February 13, 2018

Rostyn John Griffiths (born March 10, 1988 in Stoke-on-Trent , England ) is an Australian football player .

Club career

Griffiths was born in England and grew up in Perth, Western Australia , where he played for ECU Joondalup in his youth . In 2004, the Blackburn Rovers took the midfielder to their youth academy, in 2007 he moved up to the adult division of the English club, but did not get beyond missions for the reserve team. Therefore, he was awarded in January 2008 for the remainder of the season to the financially troubled Scottish first division club FC Gretna , who stopped playing after the season. After his return he was given on loan to the English fourth division club Accrington Stanley in September 2008 , for which he came to 13 league and two cup appearances in three months.

Accrington planned to sign Griffiths for January 2009, but the transfer failed during negotiations with Blackburn. Instead, he signed a one-month contract in early February with the option of a two-year extension in Australia with Adelaide United , who brought him into the team to replace the injured Jason Spagnuolo . The season there was already in the championship play-offs, Griffiths came to two missions in the course of the 0-1 final defeat against Melbourne Victory he was not called up.

Since Adelaide did not make use of the option to extend the contract, he continued his career with the newly formed Australian A-League team North Queensland Fury and scored the club's first goal in the A-League on the first day of the 2009/10 season . After one season and 23 league appearances for Fury, he moved to the 2010/11 season for league rivals Central Coast Mariners .

In February 2012 he left Australia and moved to Guangzhou R&F FC in China

He left the Chinese club in January 2014 and returned to Australia. There he played for one season with Perth Glory before moving to Europe to Roda Kerkrade .

His younger brother Brent also played for some time at the Academy of Blackburn Rovers and was later also active in the A-League.

National team

In 2005 Griffiths was part of the Australian squad in preparation for the U-17 World Cup, but missed the finals after breaking a leg in a preparatory game and has not been nominated by the Australian side since. After his performance for Accrington, the Welsh Federation became aware of the midfielder, for whom he would be eligible to play because of his Welsh grandfather. A final decision by Griffiths is pending (as of April 2010).

Web links

• Rostyn Griffiths in the database of weltfussball.de
• Rostyn Griffiths in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ thisislancashire.co.uk: Accrington Stanley keen for permanent Griffiths deal (Dec. 5, 2008)
2. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Rostyn Signs Up For Reds Finals (Feb. 3, 2009)
3. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Fury Snap Up Rostyn Griffiths (July 1, 2009)
4. ↑ ^{a b} tribalfootball.com: Griffiths brothers happy with Blackburn progress (26. Sep. 2007)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ thisislancashire.co.uk: Wales and Australia battle it out for on-loan Blackburn Rovers midfielder (Nov. 25, 2008)