Scott Andrew Hogan (born 13 April 1992) is a professional
footballer
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who plays as a
forward for club
Birmingham City
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and the
Republic of Ireland national team.
Hogan played in the
youth system
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at
Rochdale
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but was released in 2010. He entered
non-league football, playing for
Woodley Sports,
FC Halifax Town
FC Halifax Town is a professional association football club based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They currently compete in and play at the Shay. They replaced Halifax Town A.F.C., which went into administration in the 2007–08 season. ...
,
Mossley
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The historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshir ...
,
Stocksbridge Park Steels,
Ashton United and
Hyde before a return to Rochdale. He scored 17 goals in
2013–14 which prompted
Brentford to sign him in July 2014 for a fee of £750,000. Hogan spent two-and-a-half seasons at
Griffin Park and moved to
Aston Villa in January 2017. He struggled to establish himself at
Villa Park
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and spent time on loan at
Sheffield United
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in
2018–19 and at
Stoke City and
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Sin ...
in
2019–20 before rejoining Birmingham on a permanent contract in September 2020.
Born in England, he represents the Republic of Ireland at international level.
Club career
Rochdale
Hogan was born in
Salford
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, Greater Manchester.
He began his career as a student at
Salford College, studying for a
BTEC National Diploma
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in Sport and playing in the college's Football Academy first team,
before moving onto the
youth academy
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at
League Two
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club
Rochdale
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in 2009. After just one call into the first team squad, he was released at the end of the
2009–10 season.
Woodley Sports
Hogan dropped into
non-League football to join
Northern Premier League First Division North club
Woodley Sports during the 2010 off-season. He had a prolific spell with the club, scoring 21 goals in 27 league games.
He departed the club in November 2010, but immediately returned on loan for a further month.
F.C. Halifax Town
Hogan signed with Northern Premier League Premier Division club
F.C. Halifax Town
FC Halifax Town is a professional association football club based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They currently compete in and play at the Shay. They replaced Halifax Town A.F.C., which went into administration in the 2007–08 seaso ...
in November 2010 and linked up with his brother
Liam
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Etymology
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.
He made his debut in a
West Riding County Cup second round match against
Barnoldswick Town on 15 December and scored the second goal in a 5–0 victory. On 10 January 2011, Hogan featured in a 3–0
Northern Premier League Challenge Cup
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third round win over
Bradford Park Avenue, but his inclusion in the team caused Halifax's expulsion from the competition, as he was
cup-tied
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after appearing for Woodley Sports in the competition earlier in the season. Hogan slowly broke into the league squad and the Shaymen finished the
2010–11 season as Northern Premier League Premier Division champions,
which promoted the club to the
Conference North
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for the
2011–12 season.
In August 2011, Hogan joined Northern Premier League First Division North club
Mossley
Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, southeast of Oldham and east of Manchester.
The historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshir ...
on loan. He made his debut on the opening day of the
2011–12 season, scoring in a 2–1 defeat to
Ossett Town
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History
Ossett Town AFC were formed in 1936 when, during a public meeting, the Mayor of the Borough of Ossett charged John Carter, a former ...
m and made three further appearances before returning to Halifax.
Hogan made his first Halifax appearance of the
2011–12 season on 29 August, as a 77th-minute substitute for
Lee Gregory in a 0–0 draw with
Boston United
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.
He fell out of favour and made a handful of further appearances before leaving
The Shay
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The stadium is owned by Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council and leased by the Shay Stadium Trust, a not-for-profit company set up to preserve the ground as a sports stadi ...
in late December.
Hogan made 22 appearances and scored four goals during just over a year with F.C. Halifax.
Stocksbridge Park Steels
Hogan signed for Northern Premier League Premier Division club
Stocksbridge Park Steels in December 2011.
He quickly struck up a strike partnership with
Jack Muldoon
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Career Non-League
Muldoon started his career at home-town club Scunthorpe United as a winger, being relea ...
and made regular appearances for the club. Hogan left the Steels in October 2012, after encountering problems commuting to
Stocksbridge from his home in
Warrington
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.
He made 16 appearances and scored seven goals during the early months of the
2012–13
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season.
Ashton United
In October 2012, Hogan signed for Northern Premier League Premier Division club
Ashton United.
He scored one goal in eight league appearances for the club, before departing in March 2013.
Hyde
On 9 March 2013, Hogan signed a non-contract deal with
Conference Premier
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strugglers
Hyde and made his debut that day as a second-half substitute for
Louis Almond in a 3–0 defeat to
Gateshead.
He left Hyde at the end of the
2012–13 season having scored three goals from 11 Conference appearances.
Return to Rochdale
On 9 May 2013, Hogan returned to Rochdale, signing a two-year deal.
He made his professional debut on 3 August, scoring the first goal of a 3–0 home win against
Hartlepool United
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with a strike that was named as the
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Goal of the Day. He began the season in good form and scored 10 goals in his first 20 league appearances.
Four goals in five matches won Hogan the
League Two Player of the Month award for February and he celebrated by scoring his second
hat-trick
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in three weeks against
Oxford United
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on 1 March.
Hogan finished the
2013–14 season with 19 goals in 40 appearances to help Rochdale to third place in League Two and automatic promotion to League One.
In addition to winning the club's Supporters' Player of the Year award, he was voted into the
PFA Football League Two Team of the Year and was shortlisted for the
League Two Player of the Year award.
He left the club in mid-July.
Brentford
On 21 July 2014, Hogan signed a three-year contract with Championship club
Brentford,
for a fee reported to be approximately £750,000. After missing a portion of the
2014–15 pre-season
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with an ankle injury, he made his Bees debut on 26 August as a second-half substitute for
Nick Proschwitz
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Club c ...
in a 1–0 defeat to
West London rivals Fulham in the second round of the
League Cup
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.
Hogan made his league debut for Brentford in the following game against
Rotherham United
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, coming on for
Jota after 67 minutes, but he suffered an
anterior cruciate ligament
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injury in his left knee on 82 minutes and was immediately substituted. Hogan underwent
reconstructive surgery
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on 10 September and re-injured the same knee in April 2015, after catching his foot in the turf during a passing drill in training. He underwent further surgery on 29 April and later signed a one-year contract extension, which would keep him at
Griffin Park until the end of the
2017–18 season.
Hogan finally returned to the pitch with an appearance for the
Development Squad against
Crystal Palace
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on 29 February 2016 and he scored the opening goal of the 2–2 draw.
After two further appearances, he made his return to the first team with a late substitute appearance in a 1–0 defeat to
Blackburn Rovers
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on 19 March.
Though he subsequently suffered from a hamstring problem, Hogan soon returned to the team and finished the season with seven goals from seven games.
Hogan began the
2016–17 season as an ever-present and got off the mark on his fourth appearance, with the only goal of the game versus
Nottingham Forest
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on 16 August 2016.
He went on to score 13 goals in an 18-match spell, which included his first Brentford hat-trick (scored in a 5–0 win over
Preston North End) and the September 2016
Championship Player of the Month
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award.
Hogan left the club on 31 January 2017 and scored 21 goals in 36 appearances during two-and-a-half seasons at Griffin Park.
Aston Villa
On 31 January 2017, Hogan joined Championship club
Aston Villa on a four-and-a-half-year contract for an undisclosed fee.
He scored his first goal for Villa in a 2–0 win over
Wigan Athletic
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Founded in 1932, ...
on 18 March 2017, which would prove to be the only goal he scored during the 13 appearances he made during the second half of the
2016–17 season.
Hogan had an injury and form-affected first half of the
2017–18 season, but featured regularly during the second half of the campaign to finish with 41 appearances and 9 goals.
Hogan made seven appearances during the first half of the
2018–19 season,
predominantly as a substitute and departed on loan for the rest of the campaign in January 2019.
He returned at the end of the regular season, but was not eligible to play in Villa's play-off campaign.
Sheffield United (loan)
On 31 January 2019, Hogan joined Championship high-flyers
Sheffield United
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on loan until the end of the
2018–19 season.
He scored two goals in eight appearances and celebrated promotion to the
Premier League
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with the club at the end of the season.
Stoke City (loan)
On 7 August 2019, Hogan joined
Stoke City on loan for the
2019–20 season. Hogan scored twice in a 2–2 draw against
Derby County
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Founded in 188 ...
on 17 August 2019. He scored a late goal against
Swansea City on 5 October 2019, giving Stoke their first win of the season. Following a change of managers in November Hogan fell out of favour.
Birmingham City (loan)
Hogan was recalled from Stoke City by Villa on 29 January 2020 and loaned straight out to another Championship club, city rivals
Birmingham City
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, for what remained of the season. He started the next match, at home to
Nottingham Forest
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, and scored the opening goal in a 2–1 win. He continued to score freely, playing in a
4–4–2 formation in partnership with
Lukas Jutkiewicz
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, and finished his first month with six goals from seven Championship appearances,
[ which included the winner at Barnsley, a late equaliser against ]Sheffield Wednesday
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, and both Birmingham's goals in a 2–2 draw away to Queens Park Rangers
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. His performances earned him the Championship Player of the Month
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award. By the time football was suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic
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, he had seven goals from eight league matches. When it was confirmed that the season would be completed, his loan was extended to cover the remaining fixtures, but he failed to score after the resumption.
Birmingham City
Hogan rejoined Birmingham City on a four-year permanent contract on 16 September 2020; the fee was undisclosed.
International career
Hogan was called up to the Republic of Ireland U21 squad in February 2014, but did not feature in a match. He is eligible to play for Ireland through having two Irish grandparents. Hogan was called up to the senior Republic of Ireland
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squad for two 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and two subsequent second round matches in October and November 2017 respectively, but was an unused substitute in all four matches. He made his senior debut on 23 March 2018 in a 1–0 friendly defeat to Turkey
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.
Personal life
Hogan's brother Liam
Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William.
Etymology
The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: ''willa'' ("will" or "resolution"); and ''helma'' ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these ele ...
is also a professional footballer and the pair played together at F.C. Halifax Town. Having both studied at Salford College, the brothers returned to take part in the presentations at the 2014 Salford City College Sports Awards.
Career statistics
International
Honours
F.C. Halifax Town
* Northern Premier League Premier Division: 2010–11
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Rochdale
*Football League Two
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third-place promotion: 2013–14
Sheffield United
* EFL Championship runner-up promotion: 2018–19
Individual
* PFA Team of the Year: 2013–14 League Two
*Rochdale
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Supporters' Player of the Year: 2013–14
*Football League Two Player of the Month
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: February 2014
*EFL Championship Player of the Month
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: September 2016, February 2020
See also
*
References
External links
*
*
Scott Hogan
at fai.ie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogan, Scott
1992 births
Living people
Footballers from Salford
English footballers
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Republic of Ireland international footballers
Association football forwards
Association football wingers
Stockport Sports F.C. players
FC Halifax Town players
Mossley A.F.C. players
Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. players
Ashton United F.C. players
Hyde United F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Stoke City F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Northern Premier League players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players
English people of Irish descent