Steven Fletcher (footballer)
Fletcher playing for Sunderland in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Steven Kenneth Fletcher | ||
| Date of birth | 26 March 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Shrewsbury, England | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
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Current team
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Sheffield Wednesday | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2004 | Hibernian | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2009 | Hibernian | 156 | (43) |
| 2009–2010 | Burnley | 35 | (8) |
| 2010–2012 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 61 | (22) |
| 2012–2016 | Sunderland | 94 | (23) |
| 2016 | → Marseille (loan) | 12 | (1) |
| 2016– | Sheffield Wednesday | 25 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007 | Scotland U20 | 6 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Scotland U21 | 7 | (5) |
| 2007 | Scotland B | 1 | (0) |
| 2008– | Scotland | 30 | (9) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:45, 21 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 October 2016 (UTC) |
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Steven Kenneth Fletcher (born 26 March 1987) is an English-born Scottish professional footballer who plays for Sheffield Wednesday as a striker.
Fletcher began his club career with Hibernian, playing in 156 Scottish Premier League games and scoring 43 goals. English club Burnley paid a club record transfer fee of £3 million to sign Fletcher in June 2009. He was their top goalscorer in the 2009–10 season with eight league goals, but the club were relegated from the Premier League.
Fletcher was transferred soon afterwards to Wolverhampton Wanderers, who also paid a club record fee, of £6.5 million, for his services. He scored 24 goals in 68 appearances for Wolves, but the club were relegated from the Premier League in 2012. Fletcher was then transferred to Sunderland for £12 million. He joined Sheffield Wednesday on 1 July 2016.
Fletcher played for the Scotland under-19 team that finished runners up to Spain in the 2006 European Championship. He has since represented Scotland at full international level, and in 2015 became the first player since 1969 to score a hat-trick for Scotland.
Fletcher, who was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, spent much of his early years living on British Army bases in England and Germany where his Liverpudlian soldier father, Kenny Fletcher was based. His father died from cancer aged 37 when Fletcher was aged only 10, prompting his Scottish mother, Mary to relocate him and his younger sister Bree to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire to be closer to her family.Hibernian youth coach John Park, also from Hamilton, spotted his footballing talent and the youngster joined the Leith club's youth network aged 13.
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