Ben Godfrey, born on 15 January 1998 (age 28), is an English central defender now with Rangers, where he wears the number 4 shirt. His current market value is around £4.5m, according to Transfermarkt.
Godfrey’s development was shaped by his early move from York City to Norwich City, and by the sort of loan spell that tends to separate promising defenders from tidy academy CVs. His time at Shrewsbury Town gave him regular senior football and hardened up the defensive side of his game before he went back to Norwich with a clearer route into the first team.
His best league return came at Norwich in 2018-2019, when he scored four goals in 31 appearances. That season remains the clearest statistical marker of his progress: enough football to matter, enough end product to be noticed, and a platform that pushed him on to a higher level.
At Rangers in 2026-2027, Godfrey has made four league appearances and one League Cup appearance, with five appearances in total across all competitions. It is still a small body of work at Ibrox, so the sensible reading is simply that he is an experienced defender settling into another stage of a career built through York, Norwich, senior loan football and the demands that followed.
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