Position: Winger/Full back

Date of birth: 28/07/1998

Heritage number: 1158

Previous club: Swinton Lions

Representative honours: England Knights, England

Warrington debut: vs Wigan Warriors (A), full back, lost 16-10 on 30/01/2020

Honours

Matty Ashton is an exciting winger who has earned comparisons with club legend John Bevan.

He began playing with Rochdale Mayfield, aged seven, and later played for their open age team in the National Conference.

He spent a year in Australia playing for the Mullumbimby Giants in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League in New South Wales before signing a one-year contract with Swinton Lions in December 2018.

He took the Championship by storm in 2019 with 30 tries in 25 appearances to be crowned the leading tryscorer and Young Player of the Year.

He signed for Warrington for an undisclosed fee and August 2019 and has made the number five shirt his own with 48 tries in 71 appearances.

In October 2021, he scored two tries from full back on his England Knights debut against Jamaica at Castleford.

In 2023, he swept the board at the club’s awards evening, being crowned Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year and Vice-Presidents’ Player of the Year.

He made his England debut against France at the Halliwell Jones in April 2023 and was the man of the match after scoring two tries in the second Test against Tonga at Huddersfield that October.