Mark Randall

Arsenal

After playing youth football for Northampton Town, Randall joined Arsenal's academy in 2001. Randall signed for Arsenal on schoolboy forms and played seven matches in the Premier Reserve League in 2005–06. Randall was also the only player in the team to play all 18 reserve team fixtures in the 2007–08 season. He played in Dennis Bergkamp's testimonial against Ajax Amsterdam in July 2006, and in the club's pre-season tour of Austria and the Netherlands. He made his first-team debut as a substitute for Denílson in Arsenal's League Cup third-round match against West Bromwich Albion on 24 October 2006. He also played in Arsenal's fourth-round match against Everton on 8 November 2006, again coming on for Denílson, and was on the bench for their quarter-final against Liverpool, but did not play in that match. On 8 February 2007, he signed his first professional contract with Arsenal, and in the summer of 2007 took part in Arsenal's annual first-team pre-season training camp in Austria. However, he was out of the side for the first few months of the 2007–08 season after suffering an injury in Arsenal Reserves' opening Premier Reserve League match of the season, against Fulham in late August, but made his first start for Arsenal in the League Cup quarter-final against Blackburn Rovers on 18 December 2007, and also made his second appearance in the competition as a last-minute substitute in the first leg of the semi-finals against Tottenham Hotspur. Randall signed for…

Randall is a midfielder. He plays primarily as a central midfielder but can also play as advanced playmaking midfielder. He is noted for his composure on the ball and his passing abilities.

As of matches played 18 May 2021

Born in Milton Keynes, Randall grew up amongst a family of Tottenham Hotspur supporters, but says he is "100% a Gooner".