Midfielder | #8
Jack Blake | #8
Position: M
Height: 5’11
Weight: 172
DOB: 9/22/94
Hometown: Nottingham, England
Nationality: England/Scotland
Acquired: 1/6/23
Previous club: San Diego Loyal SC (USLC)
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Enters third year with the Boys in Blue after leading the team with a career-best 10 goals and eight USLC “Team of the Week” selections last season.
Scored two goals at Louisville City and in a 2-1 win over Phoenix Rising to earn two of those accolades and increase his USLC career total to five braces.
Started strong with goals in each of his first two matches, helping coach Sean McAuley earn his first Indy Eleven victory at Memphis.
Scored the earliest USLC goal of his career with a third-minute tally in a home win over Hartford.
Recorded the game-winning goal in a 1-0 road win at Birmingham Legion FC, registering season highs of eight shots and four shots on target.
The 30-year-old Blake scored his 10th goal of the campaign in the team’s 3-2 playoff-clinching win vs. Birmingham on October 19, and it came in his 50th start in two years for the Boys in Blue, earning his second USLC “Goal of the Week” nomination of the season.
Leads returning players with 53 shots, 30 shots on target, and 43 fouls won in 2024. Tied for 15th in the USLC in shots and tied for 19th in goals.
Third on the team in assists with four, including a season-best two helpers in the first half at Las Vegas. Assisted on the game-winning goal in the third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup at Chicago Fire FC II, and he scored in the Round of 32 victory vs. San Antonio FC.
Second on the team is USLC career penalties converted (10), third in goals (31) and appearances (170), and fourth in starts (140) and minutes (12,037).
2023: Saw action in 30 matches, starting 28… Scored 3 goals… Contributed 34 shots with 17 shots on target… Had an assist against Monterey Bay on 4/22/23… Tallied 7 shots against Tulsa on 7/8/23.
Indy Eleven made a big impression with its first new signing of 2023 by inking Blake on January 6, 2023.
The native of Nottingham, England, joined Indiana’s Team after contributing 22 goals and 17 assists across 117 combined regular season and playoff appearances in five seasons of USL Championship action since 2018. Blake spent 2021-22 with San Diego Loyal SC, scoring eight goals and adding 10 assists – including a career-high six helpers in 2022 – in 52 appearances for then-Head Coach Landon Donovan’s side.
After joining the Championship with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in 2018, Blake went on loan to Real Monarchs SLC that June in a move that jumpstarted his status as a full-time starter in the league. His 2 1/2-year stay with Real included a standout 11-goal campaign in 2019 that also featured three tallies in postseason play and an equalizing assist in the Monarchs’ 3-1 victory at Louisville City FC in the USL Championship Final.
Prior to his time in the Championship, Blake spent two seasons acclimating to soccer stateside – including getting a glimpse of Indy Eleven – in the North American Soccer League, starting with an 11-game stint with Minnesota United in 2016. Blake headed south in 2017 with Jacksonville Armada FC, where he bagged nine goals and added three assists in 27 games.
Blake was reared in the youth development systems of Notts County and Nottingham Forest before joining the Academy set-up of the latter. He made his professional debut while on loan to League Two side Mansfield Town in late 2013, which fell in between stints with Forest’s reserve side from 2013-15. Through his grandfather’s lineage Blake was eligible to represent Scotland in international play, and he earned five caps with the country’s Under-19 side from 2011-12.
