Tayler Carrington

Tayler Carrington Barden is a Gibraltarian footballer who plays as a defender for Mons Calpe and the Gibraltar national team.

Club career

Initially playing football for local Spanish side Unión Manilva, Carrington spent the majority of his youth career at CD Estepona. In October 2022 he was named in a senior team for the first time, as an unused substitute for Estepona B against Costa Unida. After a brief stint with the Juvenil side of Algeciras in the 2023–24 season, he returned again to Estepona in March 2024 and made is B team debut on 24 April, against CDF Banús. He joined academy side Vázquez Cultural in July 2024 División de Honor, the top division of youth football in Spain. The nex summer, he joined Gibraltar Football League champions Lincoln Red Imps, but after struggling for game time, he moved to Mons Calpe in January 2026.

Carrington made his first international appearance for Gibraltar in 2021, for the Gibraltar national under-17 football team against Switzerland. After first playing for them in an unofficial friendly against Iraq under-20s, he made his under-21 debut on 15 June 2023 against Moldova, forming a defensive partnership with Paddy McClafferty that proved difficult to break down throughout the campaign. He scored his first international goal against the same opposition on 21 November with what proved to be the winner in a famous 2–1 victory in Chișinău. He received his first senior call-up in March 2024 for the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League play-out against Lithuania, but did not play. He made his senior debut on 6 June 2025, coming on as a substitute against Croatia.