Ellis Devereux

?–20202020–2023

**Last statistical update: 18:05, 22 November 2023 (UTC)**

**Ellis Devereux** is a footballer who plays for **Hashtag United** (men).

Devereux was attached to Forest Glade from around under-12 level, remaining up until the team's merger with HTU in mid-2020 as he also featured at under-13 and under-14 level. To start 2017–18, he scored a brace in an opening day of the season 5–3 away loss to South Woodham Ferrers United - which was followed by a further 5 singular goals across the U12 campaign. For the U13s in 2018–19, Devereux made 19 appearances and scored 5 times - which included a hat-trick on 28 April 2019 on the road to St Clere's. Another treble followed in the subsequent season for the U14s in a November visit to Southendian Manor, which occurred either side of singular strikes past Canvey Island and Blackmore Youth.

### HTU

2020–21
Following HTU's merger with Forest Glade in 2020, Devereux was one of many players to make the move over to *The Tags* - who had employed his father, Jay, as their senior team manager since 2018. He scored on his under-15 competitive youth bow for the club, popping up with a 20 September goal in a 4–3 home win over Mornington Boys in the U15 Division Premier. Another came his way in May 2021 versus Canvey Island away from home, in a season that was - like the preceding season - affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021–22
Normality resumed in 2021–22, as Devereux notched 12 goals across 15 appearances. That streak included two hat-tricks, the 1st of which on 7 November 2021 at home against Harold Wood Cougars preceded the 2nd on 30 January 2022 away to Essex Royals (cup). A further 6 goals would follow across the campaign, notably starting with a brace on 6 February on home turf to Catholic United.

2022–23
2022–23 would see Devereux split his time between the under-17s and the reserves. After an appearance at home to Langdon United and a goal away to Canvey Island for the U17s, the forward made his reserve debut on 14 October 2022 in a victory away to Cannons Wood. Between October and the end of January 2023, whilst turning out for both, Devereux netted 6 goals in 5 appearances; including appearing twice on the scoresheet in a 4 December cup triumph over Mornington Boys. In the succeeding February, the forward scored once for the U17s and twice for the reserves; with his maiden goal for the latter arriving on 10 February in stoppage time of a 3–1 success at home to West Essex. Overall, Devereux amassed 34 games and 16 goals across both age groups in the season.

2023–24
Devereux would exclusively feature for the reserves from the beginning of the 2023–24 campaign. He opened his account on 25 August in a Basildon United cup victory, prior to going on to net back-to-back hat-tricks across September and October versus Billericay Town and Waltham Abbey in the league; which itself was followed by sole goals in fixtures with West Essex (cup) and Basildon United across October and mid-November. 4 days after the latter, on 21 November, Devereux was promoted into father Jay's 1st-team for their Essex Senior Cup 3rd round match-up away to Hornchurch U18. He would subsequently come off the substitute's bench to replace fellow debutant Nnaemeka Anyanwu after 53 minutes of a 7–0 thrashing.

## Personal Life

Devereux is the son of ex-footballer and manager Jay Devereux; who gave him his competitive senior debut whilst the pair were at HTU.

## HTU Statistics

Breakdown

'*Other Cups' includes competitions like the FA Trophy, the FA Vase and friendly tournaments. See also: HTUwiki:DataIssues.*

Appearance (1)
Hornchurch U18  v  Hashtag United

## References

1. ↑ "Happy 18th birthday to our hat trick hero @ellis\_devs !" , 11 November 2023.
2. ↑ "Future Hashtag United Striker?" , 13 March 2019.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Ellis Devereux player stats" .
4. ↑ "53’ SUB" , 21 November 2023.