Exeter City have signed Aston Villa defender Sil Swinkels on a season-long loan.
The 21-year-old Dutchman is a former Netherlands youth international.
Swinkels spent the second half of last season on loan at Bristol Rovers, where he played 18 times and scored twice.
He was part of the Aston Villa youth side who were forced to play Liverpool in an FA Cup tie in January 2021 after a Covid-19 outbreak among the first-team squad.
"Sil is a young centre-half we have been chasing all summer, from his loan at Bristol Rovers last year," manager Gary Caldwell told the club website.