Ben Wylie, born on 29 June 2002 (age 24), is a Northern Irish centre midfielder whose senior career has settled away from Scotland after an early Celtic connection.
He joined Celtic from Ballymena United in July 2021, a move that put him into a bigger environment at a formative stage. That spell ended in August 2023 when he moved on to Ytterhogdals, and his career then took in Cliftonville and Coleraine before he found a more settled place at Portadown.
Portadown has been the clearest marker of his career so far. Across two seasons he made 53 league appearances and scored five league goals, with his best league return coming in 2025â26, when he scored three times in 21 appearances.
That same 2025â26 season later took him to Coleraine, where he added 15 league appearances and three goals. Wylie remains a regular first-team presence, with his career shaped less by the brief Celtic spell than by the steady run of senior football he has built in Northern Ireland.
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