Paweł Abbott
Abbott training with Oldham Athletic in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Pawel Tadeusz Howard Abbott | ||
| Date of birth | 5 May 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | York, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Arka Gdynia | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Beagle Boys | |||
| Kujawiak Włocławek | |||
| Włocłavia Włocławek | |||
| Łokietek Brześć Kujawski | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2001 | ŁKS Łódź | 8 | (0) |
| 2001–2004 | Preston North End | 25 | (5) |
| 2002 | → Bury (loan) | 13 | (5) |
| 2003 | → Bury (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2004 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 6 | (4) |
| 2004–2007 | Huddersfield Town | 105 | (44) |
| 2007 | Swansea City | 18 | (1) |
| 2007–2009 | Darlington | 42 | (17) |
| 2009–2010 | Oldham Athletic | 39 | (13) |
| 2010–2011 | Charlton Athletic | 17 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Ruch Chorzów | 36 | (6) |
| 2012–2014 | Zawisza Bydgoszcz | 31 | (15) |
| 2014– | Arka Gdynia | 40 | (14) |
| National team | |||
| Poland U21 | 1 | (1) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 July 2016. |
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Pawel Tadeusz Howard Abbott (born 5 May 1982) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ekstraklasa club Arka Gdynia.
Abbott was born in York, England to a Polish mother and an English father as the younger of two children. He first played football for Beagle Boys in York before the team changed its name to York RI. He had the chance to play for Doncaster Rovers but declined the offer and moved to Poland, where he became a youth player at ŁKS Łódź, before moving back to England to join Preston North End at the age of 19.
He did not have the best time at Preston making only 25 appearances in three years and having two loan spells at Bury.
In early 2004, Abbott was signed on loan by Huddersfield Town as a makeshift replacement for Jon Stead who had just been sold to Premier League side Blackburn Rovers. He scored on his debut after coming off the bench against Bristol Rovers, going on to score four times in six games on loan. He was then bought for a fee of around £125,000. He would score only once more that season, but in 2004/05 became the first Town striker in 6 years to hit more than 20 goals as he struck 27 times in all competitions.
The following season was less successful for Abbott. After an initial run of scoring in the season, including in six consecutive games in August and September, he suffered something of a goal-drought over the remainder of the campaign, being relegated to being a bit-part player from the bench following this loss of form. He scored a total of 14 times in 2005/06.
In July 2006, Abbott rejected a move to Milton Keynes Dons as part of a deal or no deal with their defender Dean Lewington. He said that he wanted to fight for a first-team place against Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Andy Booth, John McAliskey and new signing Luke Beckett. In his penultimate game for Huddersfield on 30 December 2006 he scored two goals (including a last minute winner) against the club he would ironically go on to join in a matter of days; Swansea City. In his final game for Huddersfield he was sent off against Doncaster Rovers on 1 January 2007.
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