Alex James Mowatt

Doncaster produced Alex Mowatt through Leeds United's academy, and it was there that he first announced himself: within his first two seasons in the first team he collected the club's Young Player of the Year award, then swept both the Players' and Fans' Player of the Year prizes, along with a Yorkshire Evening Post honour, in 2014–15.

His move to Barnsley in January 2017, for a fee reported around £600,000, proved the making of him as a first-team fixture rather than a squad player. A loan spell at Oxford United came in between, but it was back at Oakwell where Mowatt became indispensable, winning the club's Players' Player of the Season three years running. The high point arrived in 2018–19, when Barnsley finished as League One runners-up and went up to the Championship, a campaign that also brought Mowatt places in the EFL and PFA Teams of the Season. A Championship Player of the Month award followed in March 2021, just before his contract expired.

He joined West Bromwich Albion on a free transfer that summer and went on to be appointed club captain, the armband a reflection of the consistency he had built up over successive seasons in the Championship.

At youth level, Mowatt was capped once by England Under-19s, in a 3–0 win over Turkey, and once by the Under-20s against the United States, without those appearances leading to further recognition higher up the England pathway.