Sam Patterson (footballer)

Sam Patterson

Personal information
Date of birth	29 October 1993
Playing position	Right back, Midfielder[1]
Club information
Current team	Bradford Park Avenue
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2013–2014	Barnsley	0	(0)
2013–2014	→ F.C. Halifax Town (loan)	2	(0)
2014–2015	Bradford Park Avenue	14	(1)
2015–2016	Shrewsbury Town	0	(0)
2016–	Bradford Park Avenue
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 January 2016. † Appearances (goals)

Sam Patterson (born 29 October 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a right back or midfielder for Bradford Park Avenue.

Career

Patterson began his career at Barnsley. He was first included in a matchday squad on 9 April 2013, remaining an unused substitute in their 1−1 Championship draw away to Cardiff City,^[2] and a week later was used in the same way for a game at Oakwell against Derby County, with the same outcome.^[3]

On 26 November 2013, he was loaned to fellow Yorkshire team F.C. Halifax Town until 5 January 2014.^[4] He made his senior debut that same day, replacing the injured Danny Lowe before half time in a 3−2 Conference Premier loss away to Hereford United at Edgar Street.^[5] On 7 December, he made the only other appearance of his loan, again as the replacement for an injured player, filling in for Matty Pearson for the final 29 minutes of a 3−4 loss to Woking at The Shay.^[6]

Released by Barnsley in the summer of 2014, Patterson went on to another club in the county, Bradford Park Avenue of the Conference North.^[7] On 26 December that year, he made his first senior start, playing the full 90 minutes as Bradford lost 2−1 at Chorley.^[8] He played 14 league games for the Avenue that season, scoring once, a second-minute opener in a 1−1 draw with Lowestoft Town at the Horsfall Stadium on 21 February 2015.^[9]

On 21 August 2015, he signed a one-year contract with the option of a second year for League One club Shrewsbury Town, joining up with manager Micky Mellon, who was assistant manager during his spell at Barnsley.^[10] He played his first professional game on 1 September, featuring for the entirety of a 2−0 home win over Oldham Athletic in the first round of the Football League Trophy,^[11] and made one subsequent appearance for the club in the next round of the competition, a 2−1 defeat away at Fleetwood Town the following month.^[12] Having not broken into the first-team, he was released by mutual agreement in January 2016,^[13] rejoining his former club Bradford Park Avenue shortly afterwards.^[14]

Career statistics

As of 7 October 2015

Club	Season	Division	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Barnsley	2013–14[15]	Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Halifax Town (loan)	2013–14[15][16]	Conference Premier	2	0	0	0	0	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	3	0
Bradford Park Avenue	2014–15[16]	Conference North	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	1
Shrewsbury Town	2015–16[17]	League One	0	0	0	0	0	0	2[lower-alpha 2]	0	2	0
Career total			16	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	19	1

1. Appearance in FA Trophy
2. Appearance in Football League Trophy

References

1. "Halifax sign Sam Patterson from Barnsley on loan". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
2. "Cardiff 1-1 Barnsley". BBC Sport. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
3. "Barnsley 1-1 Derby". BBC Sport. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
4. "Halifax sign Sam Patterson from Barnsley on loan". BBC Sport. 26 November 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
5. "Hereford 3-2 Halifax". BBC Sport. 26 November 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
6. "Halifax 3-4 Woking". BBC Sport. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
7. "Patterson Joins Up". Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
8. "Chorley 2-1 Bradford (Park Avenue)". Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
9. Bullen, Terry (21 February 2015). "Bradford Park Avenue 1 Lowestoft Town 1". Lowestoft Town F.C. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
10. "Sam Patterson: Shrewsbury Town sign ex-Barnsley defender". BBC Sport. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
11. "Shrewsbury 2 Oldham 0 - Report and pictures". Shropshire Star. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
12. "Fleetwood 2 Shrewsbury 1". BBC Sport. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
13. "Patterson moves on". Shrewsweb. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
14. "Patterson rejoins Avenue". Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
15. "Sam Patterson Football Stats 2013/14". Soccerbase. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
16. "S. Patterson career statistics". Soccerway. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
17. "Sam Patterson Football Stats 2015/16". Soccerbase. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

External links

• Soccerway profile
• Soccerbase profile