Personal information | |||
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Full name | Benjamin House [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 5 July 1999||
Place of birth | Guildford, England | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lincoln City | ||
Number | 18 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2016 | Aldershot Town | ||
2016–2017 | Reading | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2020 | Reading | 0 | (0) |
2019 | → Swindon Town (loan) | 6 | (0) |
2019–2020 | → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) | 3 | (2) |
2020 | → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) | 6 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Eastleigh | 54 | (13) |
2022– | Lincoln City | 64 | (15) |
International career‡ | |||
2018 | Scotland U20 | 1 | (0) |
2019 | Scotland U21 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:13, 26 June 2019 (UTC) |
Benjamin House (born 5 July 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lincoln City.
Born in England, he represented Scotland at youth international level.
Born in Guildford, [3] House started his career in the youth team of Aldershot Town before signing for the youth team of Reading in 2016. [4] In July 2017, House signed his first professional contract with Reading. [5] On 15 March 2018, House signed a new contract with Reading until the summer of 2020. [6]
On 4 January 2019, House joined Swindon Town on loan until the end of the 2018–19 season. [7]
On 12 November 2019, House joined Dagenham & Redbridge on loan until 1 January 2020. [8] On 30 January 2020, House returned to Dagenham & Redbridge on loan for the remainder of the season. [9]
On 2 July 2020, Reading announced House had left the club after his contract had expired. [10]
In August 2020 he signed for Eastleigh. [11] House made his Eastleigh debut on 3 October 2020, an opening day 5–1 victory at Barnet where House also scored his first goal for the club, to make it 3–1 in the 56th minute of the game. [12] On 9 November, House was awarded National League Player of the Month award for October, scoring five league goals in his first month at the club. [13]
On 24 January 2022, House signed for Lincoln City for an undisclosed fee. [14] [15] He made his debut on 29 January 2022, coming off the bench against Burton Albion. [16] He scored his first goal for the club against Portsmouth on 15 April 2022. [17] During the 2022–23 season, he won the Player's Player of the Season award, as well as finishing as the club's top scorer. [18] On 2 August 2023, House signed a new contract keeping him at the club until the summer of 2025. [19]
House has represented Scotland at under-20 international youth level. [20] He made his debut for the under-21 team in March 2019. [21]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Reading U23 | 2017–18 [22] | — | — | — | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Reading | 2018–19 [23] | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
2019–20 [24] | Championship | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |||
Swindon Town (loan) | 2018–19 [23] | League Two | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) | 2019–20 [2] | National League | 9 | 2 | — | — | 2 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 11 | 2 | ||
Eastleigh | 2020–21 [2] | National League | 37 | 9 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 40 | 10 | |
2021–22 [2] | National League | 17 | 4 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | ||
Total | 54 | 13 | 5 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | 60 | 15 | |||
Lincoln City | 2021–22 [25] | League One | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | 6 | 1 | |||
2022–23 [26] | League One | 38 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 44 | 13 | |
2023–24 [27] | League One | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | |
Total | 64 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 72 | 16 | ||
Career total | 132 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 151 | 33 |
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