Patrick James Wood (born 16 September 2002) is an Australian professional

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player who plays as a striker for

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

club

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...

. Wood played youth soccer with Collaroy Cromer Strikers,

Manly United Manly United Football Club is an Australian football club based in the northern beaches area of Sydney. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW and their home ground is Cromer Park, in the suburb of Dee Why, approximately 15 minute ...

and

Sydney FC Youth Sydney Football Club Youth is the youth system of Sydney Football Club based in Moore Park, Sydney, Australia. The team referred to as Sydney Youth play in the Y-League (November to February) and consists of u23 players, the highest level of y ...

before starting his professional career with

Early life

Wood attended

St Paul's College, Manly St. Paul's Catholic College (formerly named Christian Brothers College, Manly) is a diocesan Catholic school, Catholic Secondary school, secondary day school for boys, located in , on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The ...

Club career

Wood was called up to

's senior squad for the

2020 AFC Champions League The 2020 AFC Champions League was the 39th edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 18th under the current AFC Champions League title. Ulsan Hyundai won their second Champion ...

. He made his unofficial first-team debut ahead of the tournament in a match against the Australian under-23 team in November 2020. Wood made his

debut against

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on 2 January, coming off the bench at the 82nd minute mark. On 30 January, Wood scored his first A-League goals, the first coming after being on the pitch for 6 minutes, steering his side to a 3–0 victory against

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International career

Wood was called up to an Australian under-20 national team camp in 2020. In October 2021, Wood was called up to the Australian under-23 team for

2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification The 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification was an international men's under-23 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup. A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Uzb ...

matches against

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in Tajikistan. He made his debut for the side on 26 October 2021, missing an early

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before later scoring Australia's second goal in a 3–2 win. Wood scored again in the second leg three days later, the only goal in a 1–0 win to secure qualification for the

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. In May 2022, Wood was included in the Australian under-23 squad for the

2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup The 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup was the 5th edition of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup (prior to 2021 known as the AFC U-23 Championship), a biennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the ...

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Sydney FC Youth *

Y-League A-League Youth, formerly known as the National Youth League and Y-League, is an Australian national soccer youth developmental and under-21s league, founded by Football Federation Australia and now run by the Australian Professional Leagues. Th ...

: 2019–20 Sydney FC *

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Individual *

National Premier Leagues NSW The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, the organising body in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier Leagues Northern ...

top-goalscorer:

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Patrick 2002 births Living people Soccer players from Sydney Australian men's soccer players Men's association football forwards Sydney FC players National Premier Leagues players A-League Men players Australia men's youth international soccer players