Thomas William Bradshaw (born 27 July 1992) is a professional

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who plays as a striker for club

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and the Wales national team.

Club career

Shrewsbury Town

Bradshaw started his career at Aberystwyth Town and was signed by Shrewsbury Town in May 2009 (Aberystwyth later received a retrospective fee of £30,000 under the FIFA training compensation scheme). He made his debut in a League Two match against

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on 10 April 2010, replacing

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for the final 15 minutes and scoring two goals in a 3–0 win. At the end of the 2009–10 season he signed a two-year professional contract. Despite scoring six goals in the 2010–11 season, Bradshaw found first team opportunities more limited in 2011–12, making only 8 appearances and scoring once against

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. Bradshaw was handed the number nine shirt for the 2012–13 campaign, in which he made 22 appearances, mostly as a substitute, but failed to score. He signed a contract extension of an undisclosed length on 23 May 2013 and scored his first senior goal for nearly two years in a 2–0 home win over

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on 17 August.

Walsall

On 23 June 2014, Bradshaw signed a two-year contract with

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side

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for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in the region of £50,000, following the relegation of

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to League Two. He scored his first goal for the Saddlers on his debut for the club on 9 August 2014 against

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in a 1–1 away draw. Bradshaw injured his hamstring in a 1–1 draw with

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on 4 October 2014, which sidelined him for most of the month. He also scored a last–minute equaliser in a 2–2 draw against his former side Shrewsbury in the

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on 8 November 2014. Bradshaw enjoyed a prolific start to the season and scored his tenth goal of the campaign in all competitions in a 3–1 win against

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on 13 December 2014. Bradshaw scored Walsall's second goal in their 2–0 victory over

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in the first leg of the Football League Trophy Northern area final on 7 January 2015. He started in the final on 22 March, Walsall's first match at

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, a 0–2 defeat to Bristol City. On 24 June, he extended his contract until the end of the 2016–17 season. Bradshaw scored his first career hat-trick on 11 August 2015 in a 4–3 win at

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side

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in the first round of the League Cup, finishing with an added-time penalty. After making his international debut for Wales, and Walsall subsequently losing to

in the League One play-off semi-final, Bradshaw requested to be placed on the transfer list in July 2016.

Barnsley

After his transfer request was accepted by the ''Saddlers'', Bradshaw joined newly promoted Championship club

for an undisclosed fee on 14 July. He scored his first goal for the Reds in a 4–0 win against

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on 27 August 2016. He scored eight times in his first season and in 2017–18 he was the club's top scorer with 12 goals, as they were relegated. On 7 April 2018, he scored a later winner in a 3–2 win over

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rivals

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; it was only his club's second win in 14 games.

Millwall

On 23 August 2018, Bradshaw joined

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initially on loan until January, when the deal became permanent. He signed a "long-term contract" of undisclosed length, and the fee broke Millwall's record of £800,000 paid for Paul Goddard in 1989. His season ended in November after ten goalless appearances, with a knee ligament injury against

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. Bradshaw scored his first goal for the Lions on 13 August 2019 in an EFL Cup first-round game away to

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, equalising in a 2–1 win. Eleven days later he recorded a first league goal with his first touch after coming on, to earn a 1–1 draw at

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. In October, he scored five goals across four consecutive games, ending with both of a draw with

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. He won the Championship Player of the Month award for February 2023 after scoring five goals.

Oxford United

On 16 January 2025, Bradshaw signed for fellow Championship club

for an undisclosed fee.

International career

Born in

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, England, Bradshaw grew up in

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, Wales, and attended

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. Therefore he was eligible to represent Wales or England internationally. Bradshaw was called up to the Wales under−19 squad for the first time in September 2010, scoring on his debut during a 2–0 win over Liechtenstein. He scored again in a 3–3 draw with

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on 20 October 2010. He was called into the Wales under−21 squad in September 2011 for the away game with Montenegro, scoring on his debut. Bradshaw was capped eight times for the Wales U−21 squad, making his last appearance as a substitute against Moldova U−21s on 10 September 2013. He opted to withdraw from the squad when called up a month later in order to remain available for first-team duties with Shrewsbury Town. This effectively ended his international youth career, with under−21s manager

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indicating he would not select him again, although Bradshaw was in any case in his last few months of eligibility for the under−21 squad. A year later, Bradshaw was put on the standby list for the senior

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for the Euro 2016 qualifying matches against

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and

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in October 2014, but had to withdraw due to picking up a hamstring injury in a match against

for new club

. On 4 November 2015 he was called up to the senior squad for a friendly against the

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, and was an unused substitute in a 3–2 defeat. He made his debut the following 28 March, replacing

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for the final 17 minutes of a 1–0 friendly loss to

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. Bradshaw was in Wales manager Chris Coleman's preliminate squad for the

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finals tournament, but he withdrew due to a calf injury.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Walsall *

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runner-up: 2014–15 Wales *

China Cup The China Cup International Football Championship () is an annual association football tournament organized in China by Wanda Sports Holdings. The Championship was inaugurated in 2017 as a single-elimination tournament A single-elimination kn ...

runner-up:

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Individual *

Championship Player of the Month The EFL Championship Player of the Month is an association football award that recognises the player adjudged the best for each month of the season in the EFL Championship, the English football league system, second tier of English football. ...

: February 2023

References

External links

Tom Bradshaw profile
at the Shrewsbury Town website
Tom Bradshaw Welsh Premier League career stats
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bradshaw, Tom 1992 births Living people Footballers from Shrewsbury English men's footballers Welsh men's footballers 21st-century Welsh sportsmen Wales men's youth international footballers Wales men's under-21 international footballers Wales men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Aberystwyth Town F.C. players Shrewsbury Town F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Barnsley F.C. players Millwall F.C. players Oxford United F.C. players Cymru Premier players English Football League players People educated at Ysgol Penglais School Welsh people of English descent 21st-century English sportsmen