Following the confirmation of his arrival at West Ham United, we take a photographic journey through Kyle Walker-Peters’ impressive career in football so far.
Born in Edmonton, north London, in April 1997, the now 28-year-old joined Tottenham Hotspur’s academy on a full-time basis in July 2013, and quickly worked his way through the youth ranks.
International recognition first came Walker-Peters’ way in the U18 age-group in September 2014, when he completed 90 minutes of a 2-0 defeat to Italy, while back on the domestic stage he featured for Spurs’ first team on their tour of Malaysia and Australia at the end of that 2014/15 season.
After being named among the Tottenham substitutes for their home Premier League clash against AFC Bournemouth in March 2016, the versatile defender made his competitive senior debut little over a year later, putting in a Man of the Match display to help earn a 2-0 win away at Newcastle on the opening day of 2017/18.
By that point, Walker-Peters was a World Cup winner with England U20s, having turned out five times - including for the whole 90 minutes of the 1-0 final victory over Venezuela - for Paul Simpson’s side at the 2017 tournament in South Korea.
Our new No2 notched his only goal for Spurs in a 6-1 FA Cup fifth-round thrashing of Rochdale in February 2018, and he would go on to appear three times in the UEFA Champions League - including against Barcelona, en route to the 2018/19 final - and 24 times in total before joining Southampton, initially on loan, in January 2020.
Following his Saints bow, in a narrow home defeat to Burnley a month later, and the break in play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Walker-Peters signed a permanent deal at St Mary’s in August 2020, and went on to make 35 appearances in all competitions during his first full term at the club.
He scored his first Southampton goal in an emphatic 8-0 win away at Newport Country in the EFL Cup at the start of 2021/22, a campaign that yielded his first two senior England caps, against Switzerland and Maxwel Cornet’s Ivory Coast at Wembley in March 2022.
In the wake of the Saints’ relegation at the end of 2022/23, Walker-Peters shone during 47 appearances in all competitions to help win promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking in 2023/24, via an EFL Championship Play-Off final win over Leeds United, and he was subsequently named in both the EFL and PFA second-tier Teams of the Season.
During 2024/25, he played a total of 35 games, taking his overall tally for the South Coast side to six goals in 202 appearances upon his departure last month, after five-and-a-half years.
Check out the images from our newest recruit’s life on the pitch so far in the gallery above.
