Rowe in 2011
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Thomas Malcolm Rowe | ||
Date of birth | 1 May 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Wythenshawe, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder / Winger | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Doncaster Rovers | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
2002–2003 | Manchester United | ||
2003–2007 | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2009 | 72 | (13) | |
2009–2014 | Peterborough United | 175 | (23) |
2014–2016 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 17 | (0) |
2015 | → Scunthorpe United (loan) | 14 | (1) |
2016 | → Doncaster Rovers (loan) | 10 | (3) |
2016– | Doncaster Rovers | 25 | (7) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC). |
Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Rowe (born 1 May 1989) is an English footballer who primarily plays as a winger but can also operate at left back. He currently plays for League 2 side Doncaster Rovers.
Rowe was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and started his career as a boy with Manchester United in 2002. He joined the youth system the following year, and made his first-team debut as an 81st-minute substitute in their 4–1 defeat away at Watford in the FA Cup third round in January 2007. He scored his first goal for Stockport against Notts County at Edgeley Park in February 2008, and followed this up with a hat-trick at Rotherham United a few days later, which prompted Stockport County manager Jim Gannon to say, "Physically, he is a supreme athlete with Premier League fitness and technically he is excellent. What an accomplished performance – the only thing is maybe the England scouts won't come to look at him. I've said it to him personally, I think he has a great future." Rowe made 30 appearances in the 2007–08 season, including all the playoff games, as Stockport won promotion to League One. At the end of the season, Rowe won the club's Young Player of the Year Award.
He made a further 50 appearances for Stockport in the 2008–09 season.
After Stockport went into administration at the end of April 2009, the administrators sold Rowe to raise necessary funding for the club. Rowe joined League One side Peterborough United for £225,000 on a three-year contract in May 2009. He scored his first goal for Peterborough in a 4–0 win away at Wycombe in the first round of the League Cup at the beginning of the 2009–10 season. After becoming a regular player in the Peterborough team, Rowe ended the 2010/11 campaign by scoring the opening goal at a 3–0 win over Huddersfield Town in the League One play-off final as they won promotion to the Football League Championship.