# Christopher Matthew Zebroski (born 29 October 1986) is an English

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and who plays as a forward and coach for Fleet Town.

Club career

Zebroski was a youth player for his hometown club

Swindon Town Swindon Town Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club has played home matches at ...

, but was released after failing to earn a professional contract. After his release there he trained under the watch of former Wales international

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football academy, it was from here that he was spotted by scouts of

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club

Plymouth Argyle Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2021–22 season, the team are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, ...

and signed as a youth player by the club. He later signed a professional contract, and made four first-team appearances for Argyle before his contract was terminated after he was found guilty of gross misconduct by the club. This followed an incident involving the club captain

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. Three weeks after leaving Plymouth Argyle, he was signed for

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by manager

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. On 21 March 2007, Zebroski joined

Oxford United Oxford United Football Club is a professional football club in the city of Oxford, England. The team plays in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The chairman is Grant Ferguson, the manager is Karl Robinson and th ...

on a month's loan. On 31 July 2007, Zebroski signed for

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side

Torquay United Torquay United Football Club is a professional football club based in Torquay, Devon, England. The team currently compete in the , the fifth tier of English football. They have played their home matches at Plainmoor since 1921 and are nicknamed ...

on loan until May 2008, and went on to score 19 goals in league and cup competitions during the 2007–08 season. He was transferred to

Wycombe Wanderers Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play their home ...

for £20,000 in June 2008. Zebroski finished the 2008–09 season with seven goals from 33 league matches, mostly from the wing, helping the team win promotion to

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. The start of the 2009–10 season saw Zebroski score two goals in a 3–2 defeat at

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

.On 20 November 2009, Zebroski returned to Torquay United on loan with a view to permanent transfer in January. On 26 November 2010 Zebroski was given a 12-month community order and fine for kicking and punching a soldier in a street fight in Torquay in August 2010. He scored twice in a 5–0 home win against

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on 12 December and the move later became permanent. After helping the club avoid relegation from

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during the 2009–10 campaign, Zebroski scored 16 league goals to help the club finish seventh and reach the play-offs the following season. In the semi-final first leg versus Shrewsbury at Plainmoor, Zebroski scored the first goal to set up a 2–0 victory. The second leg finished 0–0, leaving Torquay to play

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in the play-off final at

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. Stevenage won the match 1–0. In July 2011 he followed former Torquay manager

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to his new club,

Bristol Rovers Bristol Rovers Football Club are a professional football club in Bristol, England. They compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play home matches at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, they have been c ...

. In August 2012 Zebroski joined

Cheltenham Town Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league syst ...

. His contract with Cheltenham was cancelled by mutual consent on 4 January 2013 after Zebroski withdrew from the matchday squad at short notice on a number of occasions. On Monday 25 February 2013, it was announced that Zebroski had joined

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side

Eastleigh Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the 2011 census. The town lies on the River Itchen, o ...

. He scored his first goal for the club in the 1–0 win over Eastbourne Borough on 2 March 2013. On 5 June 2013 Zebroski signed for newly promoted

club Newport County. He was selected as Newport County's Player of the Year for the 2013–14 season. In April 2015 he was jailed for 4 years and 4 months after he "admitted four charges of robbery, attempted robbery and assault relating to two incidents". Zebroski attributed the incidents to alcoholism, and failed in an appeal against the sentence. He served two years of his sentence at

HMP Prescoed HM Prison Prescoed (Welsh: ) is a Category D men's open prison, located in Coed-y-paen, three miles from Usk in Monmouthshire, Wales. Prescoed is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and acts as a satellite prison of the nearby HMP Usk. ...

, and was released in 2017. Following his release from prison, Zebroski rejoined

in June 2017. On 8 August 2019, Zebroski signed for

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side Chippenham Town. He departed the club in May 2021. Zebroski joined

Hellenic Football League The Hellenic Football League, currently known as the Uhlsport Hellenic Football League for sponsorship reasons, is an English men's football league covering an area including the English counties of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, southern Buck ...

Division One side Malmesbury Victoria in August 2021. Less than one month later, he joined

Southern Football League The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...

Premier Division South side Swindon Supermarine. In December 2021 he transferred to Wantage Town. Following Wantage Town's relegation, Zebroski joined Melksham Town in July 2022. On 12 December 2022, Zebroski signed for

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Premier Division South club Fleet Town as a player-coach.

Career statistics

Honours

;Wycombe Wanderers *

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Third Place (Promoted): 2008–09 *Newport Player of the Season 2013–2014

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