Sam Daniel Saunders (born 29 August 1983) is an English professional
footballer
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, who currently plays for
Hanwell Town and is assistant coach of
Brentford B. He made over 290 appearances as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
in the
English Football League
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, most notably for
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...
and
Dagenham & Redbridge
Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club is a professional association football club based in Dagenham, Greater London, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Often known simply as Dag ...
. Saunders began his career in
non-League football
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and in 2007 was part of the Dagenham & Redbridge team which was promoted to the Football League for the first time in the club's history. He later made over 200 appearances for Brentford and is a member of the club's
Hall of Fame
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.
Career
Early years and non-League football
Saunders began his career at
Charlton Athletic
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and spent five years in the club's
youth setup up to the age of 15.
He spent a year in the
academy
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at
Fulham
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, but was unable to win a contract and dropped into
non-League football
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when he signed for
Southern League Premier Division club
Welling United
Welling United Football Club is a professional football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley, England. The club's first team play in the National League South, at the sixth tier of English football.
History
Welling United Foot ...
's youth team in 2000.
While with Welling, Saunders returned to Fulham briefly to appear in a youth tournament in
Marseille
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, but was unable to win a scholarship deal.
Saunders played sparingly for Welling before moving to Southern League First Division East club
Ashford Town (Kent) on 7 March 2002.
He moved to the
Isthmian League
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Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 82 tea ...
Premier Division to join
Carshalton Athletic in February 2004 and after being allocated to the newly created
Conference South
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for the
2004–05 season,
the Robins narrowly avoided
relegation
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during Saunders' solitary full season on the club's the books.
Dagenham & Redbridge
Saunders joined
Conference Premier
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club
Dagenham & Redbridge
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during the 2005 off-season. Injuries disrupted the start of Saunders'
first season at Dagenham, but following a starting appearance in a 2–1 league win over
Tamworth on 21 January 2006, he became a regular in the first team until the end of the season. He made 29 appearances during the
2005–06 season and scored three goals as Dagenham finished in mid-table.
Saunders was a virtual ever-present during the
2006–07 season, making 43 appearances and scoring three goals as Dagenham won the Conference Premier title to secure promotion to the
Football League
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for the first time in the club's history.
Saunders started each of Dagenham's first 10 games in
League Two
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and played in the club's first ever
League Cup
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tie on 14 August 2007, which ended in a 2–1 defeat to
Luton Town
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.
A
medial ligament problem in October saw him miss over two months of the season and he endured another injury-hit spell between late January and early April 2008. He finished the
2007–08 season with 25 appearances and one goal.
Saunders began the
2008–09 season in excellent form, with five goals in a seven-match spell.
Beginning with an
injury time
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equaliser in a 1–1 draw with
Chesterfield
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on 14 March, he finished the 2008–09 season with a run of six goals in eight games,
as Dagenham narrowly missed out on the
League Two playoffs. His form won him the
League Two Player of the Month
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award for April 2009.
It was Saunders' final season for the Daggers, in which he made 45 appearances and scored 14 goals.
During his four seasons at
Victoria Road, he made 142 appearances and scored 21 goals.
Brentford
League One (2009–2012)
On 1 July 2009, Saunders and Dagenham & Redbridge teammates
Danny Foster and
Ben Strevens signed for
League One
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club
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...
on
free transfers, with Saunders agreeing a three-year contract.
Used as a
wide midfield player by manager
Andy Scott, Saunders began the
2009–10 season as a starter, before falling out of favour in October and being used as an impact
substitute.
Despite making 30 appearances during the 2009–10 season,
Saunders found himself well down the wide-midfield pecking order at the start of
2010–11
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and didn't make an appearance until 18 September 2010.
He requested a
loan move, which was rejected by Andy Scott and he later admitted that the first few months of the 2010–11 season were the most difficult of his career.
After Andy Scott was sacked in February 2011, teammate
Nicky Forster
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Football career
Early y ...
was given the manager's job until the end of the season and immediately reinstated Saunders to the starting line-up. Saunders scored Brentford's first goal in their 2–1 Football League Trophy semi-final second leg win over
Exeter City
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on 7 February, which sent the Bees to the
2011 Football League Trophy Final at
Wembley Stadium
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.
He started in the final, but came away empty-handed as Brentford lost 1–0 to
Carlisle United
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.
Saunders made 27 appearances during the 2010–11 season and scored three goals.
Under new manager
Uwe Rösler
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As a player he was a centre forward, notably playing in the Premier League for Manchester City, where he was the leading goalscorer for three ...
for the
2011–12 season, Saunders went on a goalscoring run in September and October 2011, scoring four goals in six games and helping Brentford to a winning position in each game.
He came into form again in January 2012, scoring three goals in five games.
Saunders signed a one-year contract extension in late February 2012.
He finished the 2011–12 season with 43 appearances,
a seasonal-best 12 goals and he was also credited with 9
assists.
Challenging for promotion (2012–2014)
Saunders began the
2012–13
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season as a first-choice at the top of a midfield
diamond formation
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, but he was dropped to the bench in mid-September 2012 and was utilised predominantly as a substitute for the remainder of the season.
Saunders appeared in each of Brentford's three end-of-season playoff games as a substitute, but he was unable to help the Bees to victory in the
2013 League One play-off Final.
He made 44 appearances and scored three goals during the 2012–13 season and signed a new two-year contract in June 2013.
Saunders began the
2013–14 season with starting roles in cup games and substitute cameos in the league. An illness suffered by
George Saville
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Saville began his senior career with Chelsea but did not make a first tea ...
brought Saunders into the game as a first-half substitute against
Preston North End
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on 21 December and late in the second half he capped a fine Brentford performance by scoring the third goal in a 3–0 victory.
He went on to score in four consecutive games and his form won him the December 2013
League One Player of the Month award.
Saunders was sidelined with a knee problem in mid-January 2014, which required season-ending surgery in February. In his absence, Brentford went on to win automatic promotion to secure a place in the Championship for the
2014–15 season.
He led the team in assists during the season, with seven.
Championship (2014–2017)
Saunders travelled with the Brentford squad to the
IMG Academy
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in
Florida
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in July 2014 for a
pre-season
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training camp and reported that his injured knee was "fine". The knee subsequently became inflamed and he failed to return to full training until 14 October 2014. Saunders made his first competitive appearance in 11 months with a late cameo in a 3–2 victory over
Millwall
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on 8 November. He failed to appear again until
Boxing Day
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, but made his presence felt, when he scored two late goals after coming on for
Alan Judge during the second half of a 4–2 defeat to
Ipswich Town
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The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
. Saunders signed a one-year contract extension on 15 January 2015. He finished
2014–15 with just six appearances and spent the final three months of the season away on loan.
A hamstring injury suffered while on loan in May 2015 prevented Saunders from playing at all in Brentford's
2015–16 pre-season and he returned to full training in early August 2015. He made his first appearance of the season as a late substitute for
Konstantin Kerschbaumer in a 3–1 defeat to
Reading
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on 29 August,
but was ruled out again after the match for a period of further rehabilitation. He returned to fitness in November and made frequent second-half substitute appearances under interim heach coach
Lee Carsley
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and his replacement
Dean Smith
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.
He scored his first goal of the season in a 1–1 draw with
Leeds United
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on 26 January 2016 and he signed a new one-year contract 10 days later.
but lost his starting place to Konstantin Kerschbaumer later in the month.
He regained it in March and scored goals in wins versus Ipswich Town and
West London rivals Fulham in April.
Saunders finished the 2015–16 season with 25 appearances and three goals.
After 67 minutes of a league match versus Ipswich Town on 13 August 2016,
Saunders came on as a substitute for
Maxime Colin
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to make his 200th appearance for Brentford. By mid-January 2017 and having failed to make an appearance for nearly three months,
co-
director of football
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Rasmus Ankersen
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revealed that the club were open to offers for Saunders and he departed Griffin Park on 20 January 2017.
During seven-and-a-half years with Brentford, Saunders made 206 appearances and scored 30 goals.
He was inducted into the
Brentford Hall of Fame in May 2017.
Wycombe Wanderers (loan and permanent transfer)
On 27 February 2015, Saunders joined League Two club
Wycombe Wanderers
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on a one-month loan.
After five starting appearances, Saunders' loan was extended until the end of the
2014–15 season. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–2 victory over Luton Town on 24 March 2015.
Saunders' season ended in double heartbreak, as he was substituted with a torn calf less than a minute into the Chairboys'
shoot-out defeat to Southend United in the
2015 League Two play-off Final. He made 14 appearances and scored two goals during his spell at
Adams Park
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.
Nearly two years after he initially joined Wycombe Wanderers on loan, Saunders signed an 18-month permanent contract with the club on a free transfer on 20 January 2017.
He made 18 appearances during the remainder of the
2016–17 season and scored the first goal of his second spell with the club with the opener in a 2–0 victory over
Barnet
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on 17 April 2017.
Despite missing three of the final months of the
2017–18 season with injury,
Saunders made 27 appearances and two goals during a successful campaign,
which ended with automatic promotion to League One after a third-place finish.
He signed a new one-year contract on 3 May 2018,
but managed just eight appearances before his contract was terminated by mutual consent on 30 January 2019.
Across his two spells at Adams Park, Saunders made 67 appearances and scored six goals.
Colchester United
On 30 March 2019, Saunders joined playoff-chasing League Two club
Colchester United
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Founded in 1937, the club spent its earl ...
on a free transfer, on a contract running until the end of the
2018–19 season. He made six appearances before the end of the season and after rejecting a new contract,
he announced his retirement in June 2019.
Return to non-League football
In November 2019, Saunders began making ad-hoc appearances for
Surrey South Eastern Combination
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club Richmond & Kew.
In early December 2021, he joined Isthmian League South Central Division club
Hanwell Town. Saunders made 19 appearances and scored seven goals during a
2021–22 season which ended with promotion via the end-of-season playoffs.
He signed a new one-year contract in May 2022.
Coaching career
During the second half of the 2018–19 season, Saunders spent a period coaching
Brentford B.
In June 2019, he took over the role as assistant coach of the team and made occasional appearances as a player.
In January 2020, it was reported that Saunders was studying for his
UEFA A Licence
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, which he completed by the following year.
As of 2021, he is affiliated with
Surrey
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-based sports coaching company BeSports.
Personal life
Before becoming a professional footballer, Saunders worked as an
electrician
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for the
London Underground
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. Looking back in 2011, he remarked "it was a horrible job, but it was money and gave me the opportunity to go out and play. I used to start work at half 10 at night and get in at five or six in the morning. I would go training in the evening, then go straight into work again. When
John Still
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came calling I couldn't say no, even though I had to take a pay cut to get back into football. My parents told me they would have my back, which was great, but luckily the gamble paid off. I enjoy every second of it and don't want it to stop. I appreciate the position I'm in, being able to earn a living from doing something I love".
Saunders was invited by the ''
Hounslow Chronicle
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'' to write a column during Brentford's 2013–14 season, which ran from August 2013 until June 2014.
Saunders has undertaken occasional television work, appearing on
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Late Kick Off
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in April 2014 and as a
pundit
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Origins
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for
Sky Sports' Football League coverage. Saunders co-owns custom swimwear company Thomas Royall with fellow footballers
Liam Ridgewell
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Ridgewell, wh ...
and
John Terry
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, though the company went into
voluntary liquidation
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in October 2019.
Career statistics
Honours
Dagenham & Redbridge
*
Conference Premier
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:
2006–07
Brentford
*
EFL League One
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second-place promotion:
2013–14
Wycombe Wanderers
*
EFL League Two
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third-place promotion:
2017–18
Individual
*
EFL League One Player of the Month
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:
December 2013
*
EFL League Two Player of the Month
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:
April 2009
*
Brentford Hall of Fame
References
External links
*
Sam Saundersat brentfordfc.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Sam
1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Erith
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Welling United F.C. players
Ashford United F.C. players
Carshalton Athletic F.C. players
Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players
Southern Football League players
Isthmian League players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players
Colchester United F.C. players
Brentford F.C. non-playing staff
Hanwell Town F.C. players
Association football coaches