Player #885 for Aston Villa, Jordan David Lyden played as a midfielder for the club between 2015-16 and 2017-18 making 8 appearances.

Jordan was born in Perth, Australia on 30 January 1996.

Jordan had signed professional forms with Villa in July 2014 after coming through the youth team ranks and was promoted to the first team squad by Rémi Garde during his short spell as Villa boss in 2016.

Jordan made his first squad appearance in the 0-2 Premier League defeat against Arsenal on Sunday, 13 December 2015 but did not make it onto the pitch and made another unused substitute appearance in the final game of 2015. However the following month Jordan was once again named in the first team squad and made his debut aged, 19, as an 83’ substitute for the hapless Micah Richards in Villa’s 1-1 draw at Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup Third Round on Saturday, 9 January 2016. A game in which Villa fans’ anger over the mishandling of the club was vented in full force at players and staff.

Thereafter Jordan was a virtual ever present in the match-day squad for the remaining Premier League fixtures to the end of the disastrous 2015-16 campaign making four appearances including two starts.

Jordan’s first start for Villa came in the home loss to AFC Bournemouth on Saturday, 9 April 2016 under caretaker boss Eric Black, following Rémi Garde’s departure,

In total in the most torrid of seasons in which to make your debut, Jordan made 6 appearances including 3 starts for Villa.

Jordan would make no appearances for the club in the 2016-17 Football League Championship Season under either new Villa boss Roberto Di Matteo or his replacement Steve Bruce however he returned to the Villa squad in the following campaign as Steve Bruce named him in the EFL Cup match-day squad on two occasions, with Jordan making an appearance from the bench both times.

His second appearance of 2017-18 would also be his final appearance for the club coming in the 0-2 3rd Round EFL Cup defeat Middlesbrough on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 after coming on as a 63’ substitute for Scott Hogan.

Steve Bruce sent Jordan out on loan to Oldham Athletic for the first half of the 2018-19 season and when Jordan returned to the club in January 2019 Bruce was gone and had been replaced by Dean Smith.

Jordan was released in March 2019 aged 23 having made 8 appearances for the club across his 4 seasons on the books of Villa.

Jordan played under Rémi Garde, Eric Black, Roberto Di Matteo and Steve Bruce.