Steven Fletcher (footballer)

This article is about the Scottish footballer. For the English footballer, see Steve Fletcher.

Steven Fletcher
Fletcher playing for Sunderland in 2015
Personal information
Full name Steven Kenneth Fletcher[1]
Date of birth (1987-03-26) 26 March 1987 (age 37)[2]
Place of birth Shrewsbury, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m)[3]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Wrexham
Number 26
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 (2)
2016–2020 Sheffield Wednesday 124 (36)
2020–2022 Stoke City 72 (12)
2022–2023 Dundee United 33 (9)
2023– Wrexham 33 (8)
International career‡
2007 Scotland U20 6 (1)
2006–2008 Scotland U21 7 (5)
2007 Scotland B 1 (0)
2008–2018 Scotland 33 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:10, 8 May 2024(UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:27, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Steven Kenneth Fletcher (born 26 March 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League One club Wrexham.

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 on a club record fee of £6.5 million. 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 Premier League side Sunderland for £12 million. He played 108 matches and scored 23 goals for them, also spending half a season on loan at French club Marseille in 2016. He then joined EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday. Fletcher spent four seasons at Hillsborough scoring 38 goals. He subsequently played two seasons with Stoke City, and one season with Dundee United before joining League Two side Wrexham in 2023, where his eight goals in 33 games led Wrexham to second place and promotion to EFL League One on their first attempt.

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.

  1. ^ "Steven Fletcher". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Steven Fletcher". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Steven Fletcher profile". Sunderland A.F.C. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015.