Samuel William Surridge (born 28 July 1998) is an English professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

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. During his time at

AFC Bournemouth AFC Bournemouth () is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest division of English club football. Formed in 1899 as B ...

, he spent time

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at Weymouth, Poole Town,

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, with whom he made his

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debut,

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and

Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club (; cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Swansea have played their ho ...

Club career

Early career

Surridge was born in

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, Berkshire, and moved to

Ferndown Ferndown is a town and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, immediately to the north of Bournemouth and Poole. The parish, which until 1972 was called ''Hampreston'', includes the communities of Hampreston, Longham, Stapehill and Trickett' ...

, Dorset, at the age of seven. He joined the

academy at the age of 14 from local club Bournemouth Sports.

AFC Bournemouth

Surridge returned to the Cherries academy when he joined the under-15s and was soon offered a scholarship, scoring freely for the club's youth team, before impressing during a productive loan spell with Poole Town during their debut season in National South in 2016/17 season.

League Two Loans and Premier League Debut

On 3 August 2017, Surridge joined

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club

on loan until the end of the season. Surridge made his

debut as a second-half substitute for Yeovil against

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, on 5 August 2017. He scored his first goal for Yeovil in an

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tie against

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on 29 August 2017. Surridge finished the season with Yeovil having scored 10 goals in 53 total appearances across all competitions for the club. On 30 July 2018, Surridge joined League Two club

on a season-long loan deal. Five goals from four matches in September earned him the League Two Player of the Month award, and by 6 January, he had twelve goals from twenty appearances in all competitions. Surridge scored against Premier League opposition in the third round of the

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, scoring a penalty as Oldham came from behind to beat

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2–1. He was then recalled by his parent club in early January. Surridge made his Premier League debut for the Cherries in a 5–1 loss to

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on 28 February 2019, replacing

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on the 80-minute mark. Surridge was awarded the club award for Under-21 Player of the Year on 14 May 2019, after a fruitful loan spell at Oldham Athletic and making his Premier League debut for the club against Arsenal.

Loan to Swansea City and first-team Breakthrough

On 6 August 2019, Championship club

signed Surridge on a season-long loan deal. He scored his first Swansea goal in a 3–1 away win at Queens Park Rangers on 21 August 2019 before being recalled on 1 January 2020 by

. Surridge finished the season with Swansea having scored 7 goals in 23 total appearances across all competitions for the club. Surridge signed a new contract with the Cherries in early January 2020, a four-and-a-half-year deal that would keep him with the club until the summer of 2024. He scored his first professional goal for the Cherries in the FA Cup fourth round, with a late goal against Arsenal in a 2–1 defeat on 27 January 2020. Surridge was thought to have scored his first Premier League goal for the club, equalising 1–1 in the penultimate game of the 2019–20 season against south coast rivals

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. However, it was ruled out by VAR due to teammate

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adjudged as being in an offside position. The game finished 2–0 to Southampton. Surridge was described by Cherries coach Mark Molesley as being the perfect example to loan players at non-league clubs in how to make the grade, citing his successes in loan spells at non-league level and football league clubs like Yeovil, Oldham and Swansea as being evidence of Surridge "climbing the ladder and earning his stripes".

Stoke City

On 4 August 2021, Surridge joined

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on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee. Surridge scored the winning goal on his debut three days later in a home match against

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. He scored in the first two rounds of the

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against

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and

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and in the league against

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. He then failed to find the net in his next 15 appearances and was sent-off against

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following an altercation with Josh Knight. He was allowed to leave Stoke in the January transfer window just six months after joining by manager Michael O'Neill who stated that Surridge had struggled to settle into the team. "He got off to a decent start, scored on his debut and the early games were very promising but his form suffered a little bit after that and I think generally he struggled to settle at the club. Sometimes that happens".

Nottingham Forest

On 31 January 2022, Surridge joined

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for an undisclosed fee. The transfer fee was reported to be £2.2 million. He made his debut for the club on 6 February, coming off the bench on the 71st minute of a 4–1 home win over Premier League side

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in the 4th round of the FA Cup. On 7 March, on the next round of the tournament, Surridge scored his first goal for Forest, in a 2–1 home win over

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. In the second half of the 2021–22 season, Surridge scored 7 goals in 20 appearances for Forest in the Championship, helping the club achieve promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs. The following season, with Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, Surridge made 20 league appearances, with only 1 of those as a starter. He scored just 1 league goal, on 21 January 2023, in a 1–1 draw away at Bournemouth.

Nashville SC

On 25 July 2023,

side

announced the signing of Surridge as a

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, for a reported fee of $6.5 million (around £5 million). The striker signed a contract until 2026, with an option to extend it for the 2027 season. On 4 May 2024, Surridge knocked in a hat-trick in a 4–1 win over

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, the second individual player to do so in the club's history after

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International career

On 8 October 2019, Surridge received his first call up to the

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squad, and made a goalscoring debut during a 2–2 draw against

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in Maribor on 11 October 2019.

Career statistics

Honours

Nottingham Forest *

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Nashville SC *

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runner-up: 2023 Individual *

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: September 2018 *

Under-21 Player of the Year: 2018–19

References

External links

Profile
at the Nottingham Forest F.C. website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Surridge, Sam 1998 births Living people People from Ferndown Footballers from Dorset Footballers from Slough English men's footballers Men's association football forwards AFC Bournemouth players Weymouth F.C. players Poole Town F.C. players Yeovil Town F.C. players Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players Swansea City A.F.C. players Stoke City F.C. players Nottingham Forest F.C. players Nashville SC players Southern Football League players National League (English football) players English Football League players Premier League players England men's under-21 international footballers Designated Players (MLS) English expatriate men's footballers English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Major League Soccer players