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Doncaster Rovers have signed goalkeeper Ted Sharman-Lowe on a season-long loan from Premier League side Chelsea.

The 21-year-old will spend the 2024-25 season at the Eco-Power Stadium with Grant McCann's squad.

Sharman-Lowe made three appearances for Burton Albion's first-team before joining Chelsea in 2021, while he spent last season on loan with Bromley in the National League.

He is the sixth signing for the new campaign for Rovers following Joe Sbarra, Harry Clifton, Jordan Gibson, Tom Nixon and Ephraim Yeboah.

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Doncaster have re-signed striker Billy Sharp on a one-year deal following his exit from Hull City.

The 38-year-old was Rovers' club-record signing in 2010 when he first joined. He made 102 appearances, scoring 45 goals, before leaving in 2012.

The former Sheffield United and LA Galaxy forward has more than 600 league games to his name across his career, which has also included stints at Scunthorpe, Nottingham Forest, Leeds and Southampton.

Sharp said joining the League Two side was "another challenge" that suited him at this stage in his career.

"I know I’m 38 but age is just a number and I still feel really fit and strong. I feel I can still score goals at this level," he said.

“I want to be successful personally but as a group as well and try to get the club back into the division where I started with them."

Sharp featured in 13 games for Hull City last season but did not score a goal - the first club he has not found the net for.

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Doncaster Rovers midfielder Owen Bailey has signed a new three-year deal at the club, with the option of a further year.

Bailey, 25, joined from Gateshead last summer and was an ever-present as Rovers made the play-offs after a difficult start.

The former Newcastle United player said he is "excited" to continue at the Eco-Power Stadium.

“I'm really pleased to get it done," the 25-year-old said., external

"When the gaffer first pulled me in to tell me it was something the club wanted to do, I was really keen to get it done straight away.

"I'm excited for the start of the season."

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Doncaster Rovers have signed midfielder Patrick Kelly on a season-long loan deal from Premier League side West Ham United.

The 19-year-old joined the Hammers from his boyhood side Coleraine in 2022 at the age of 16.

Kelly is yet to make a full senior appearance for West Ham, however, but won the FA Youth Cup and Under-18 Premier League South with their Under-18s side.

“What we like is that he’s excellent on the ball and an all-action type that can jump and press and recover with ease. He can also beat people, which is very important for us," Rovers boss Grant McCann said.

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Doncaster Rovers have signed Hull City left-back Brandon Fleming on a season-long loan deal.

The 24-year-old worked under Rovers boss Grant McCann when he was in charge of the Tigers.

He could make his debut for Doncaster at Newport on Saturday.

“He comes with good experience of the Championship and League One and is a positive full back that like to get forward and beat people," McCann told the club website.

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Doncaster Rovers have signed striker Rob Street from Lincoln City on loan until the end of the season.

Street, 23, joins Doncaster's League Two promotion push, dropping a division from the Imps, for whom he has made six league appearances this season.

"He's gone to Lincoln for a big fee and he's just found it hard to break into the team with the form of other forwards and we've benefitted from that," Rovers boss Grant McCann told the club website, external.

"He's powerful, he's quick, he's going to run in behind teams. He's a great lad so he'll fit into our changing room. I'm really pleased to get him."

Street, who joined Lincoln last summer from Cheltenham Town, came through the ranks at Crystal Palace and had loan spells with Torquay United, Newport County and Stevenage Town during his stay with the south London club.

Street could make his debut for Rovers in Saturday's home game against promotion rivals Port Vale.

The striker is also cleared to feature for the club in the FA Cup third-round tie at Hull City on 12 January.

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Doncaster Rovers have signed forward Ethan Ennis on loan from Manchester United until the end of the season.

The 20-year-old is yet to make a first-team appearance for United, having joined them from Liverpool in 2021.

Ennis scored for Manchester United's Under-21s against Doncaster in a 3-3 draw in the EFL Trophy in September, having previously netted in the same competition at Barnsley.

"This is a very good signing for us and we've had to fight off lots of competition from higher up the pyramid than us," Rovers manager Grant McCann told the club website.

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Doncaster Rovers have been fined £11,500 for pitch invasions during a home match with Barrow last April.

Fans ran on to the pitch a number of times during the second half of the League Two match at the EcoPower Stadium as Doncaster came from two goals down to win 4-2.

The incidents included a confrontation between a spectator and Barrow goalkeeper Paul Farman.

It came during Rovers' final regular home game of the season and a ninth successive league victory as they chased a play-off spot.

The club were charged by the FA and admitted to failing to ensure their supporters behaved in an appropriate manner.

They were handed a £15,000 penalty, which was then reduced, as well as a warning about potential future incidents.

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Doncaster Rovers right-back Jamie Sterry has signed a new two-year deal.

The 29-year-old joined Rovers from Hartlepool in May 2023 and has made 60 league appearances for Grant McCann's side.

The South Yorkshire side are fifth in League Two, three points off third-placed Port Vale with a game in hand.

"It's something that I've wanted to get sorted for a while, speaking with the gaffer and the confidence he gives me every day. I'm delighted," he told the club website., external

"I love the club, I love the area, I love the group of players we've got. The club is going in the right direction and the change from when I first joined until now is unbelievable.

"You've got to look at life and try to enjoy it. I enjoy it here. I don't really want to wait around for anything else. It's where I want to be."

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Doncaster Rovers defender Richard Wood has announced his retirement after winning promotion for the fifth time in his career.

The 39-year-old made eight appearances as Rovers won the League Two title, the last against AFC Wimbledon on 12 April.

Wood began his career at Sheffield Wednesday, where he played 174 league games, and later had a nine-year spell with Rotherham United before moving on to Doncaster in the summer of 2023.

"You must listen to your body and say stop at the right time," he said in a message on the club website., external

"I like to think I have been honest throughout my career. Honest about my limitations as a player and with every teammate and coach I have encountered along the way.

"As much as it breaks my heart, I have had to take that same approach with this decision. Defying the odds and pushing these old bones through pre-season after pre-season is a challenge which I have relished but deep down I know it's time to leave that to the next generation – yes, and the one below that."

Wood won his first promotion with Sheffield Wednesday in 2005 and went up three times from League One during his time at Rotherham, during which they also won the EFL Trophy in 2022.

One of his most memorable games came in 2018, scoring both goals, including an extra-time winner, as they beat Shrewsbury Town 2-1 in a play-off final at Wembley.

"It has been a fairytale. I'm lost for the words to explain how privileged I feel to have enjoyed the career that I have," he added.

"667 appearances for eight different clubs – no wonder I'm creaking! – and five promotions is a CV I could never have dreamed of writing as a fresh-faced 17yr old making my debut for Sheffield Wednesday back in 2003."

Meanwhile, Doncaster have announced, external that Tom Anderson, Bobby Faulkner, Ian Lawlor, Joseph Olowu and Billy Sharp are in contract discussions with the club.