Steven Fletcher (footballer)
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Fletcher playing for Sunderland in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Steven Kenneth Fletcher | ||
| Date of birth | 26 March 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Shrewsbury, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m) | ||
| 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) |
| 2023–2025 | Wrexham | 73 | (16) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2007 | Scotland U20 | 6 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Scotland U21 | 7 | (5) |
| 2007 | Scotland B | 1 | (0) |
| 2008–2018 | Scotland | 33 | (10) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:07, 16 May 2025 (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. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2025.
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. In 2023 he joined League Two side Wrexham in 2023, scoring eight goals in 33 games as the team finished in second place with promotion to League One on their first attempt. In 2024 he again scored eight goals for Wrexham as the team finished in second place with promotion to the Championship.
Fletcher played for the Scotland under-19 team that finished runners up to Spain in the 2006 under-19 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.