Personal information | |||
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Full name | Harvey Read Saunders [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 20 July 1997||
Place of birth | Wolverhampton, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Tranmere Rovers | ||
Number | 19 | ||
Youth career | |||
Barnard Castle | |||
Darlington Railway Athletic | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Darlington Railway Athletic | |||
Bishop Auckland | |||
Durham City | |||
2017–2019 | Darlington | 66 | (11) |
→ Ryhope Colliery Welfare (loan) | |||
→ Dunston UTS (loan) | |||
2019–2021 | Fleetwood Town | 27 | (3) |
2019 | → Darlington (loan) | 16 | (1) |
2021 | → Hartlepool United (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2021–2023 | Bristol Rovers | 33 | (2) |
2023– | Tranmere Rovers | 56 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:14, 21 April 2024 (UTC) |
Harvey Read Saunders (born 20 July 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays for Tranmere Rovers as a striker.
Saunders is from Staindrop. [4] He is nicknamed "Rooster". [4]
Saunders joined local club Barnard Castle at the age of 6 or 7, leaving at under-14s after the club folded. [4] He occasionally played rugby for a local club and then began working full-time in an Indian restaurant. [4] The restaurant entered a team into a football competition, which they won. [4] Saunders then began playing Sunday League football, before signing for Darlington Railway Athletic, initially at under-18 level but then for the senior team. [4] He then played for Bishop Auckland and Durham City. [4] He then signed for Darlington, making his debut in January 2017. [5] Whilst at Darlington he had loan spells at Ryhope Colliery Welfare and Dunston UTS. [4] In total he scored 11 goals in 66 league games for Darlington. [6]
He signed for Fleetwood Town in January 2019 for an undisclosed fee, on a 2+1⁄2-year contract, and was immediately loaned back to Darlington. [7] [8]
He made his first-team debut for Fleetwood on 3 September 2019 in the EFL Trophy. [9] He scored his first goals for Fleetwood when he scored twice in an EFL Trophy tie against Carlisle United on 1 September 2020, [10] and his first league goal followed in a 2–1 defeat to Rochdale on 3 October 2020. [11] On 6 October 2020 Saunders scored a hat-trick in the EFL Trophy against Aston Villa U21s. [12]
He signed on loan for Hartlepool United on 22 April 2021. [13]
At the end of the 2020–21 season, Saunders was released by Fleetwood Town. [14]
On 25 June 2021, Saunders agreed to join Bristol Rovers on a two-year deal from the expiration of his Fleetwood contract. Saunders joined former Fleetwood teammates Paul Coutts and Sam Finley in joining former manager Joey Barton that summer. [15] [16] On 7 August 2021, Saunders made his debut for the club in a 2–1 opening day defeat to Mansfield Town, [17] playing the full match on account of the fact that he was the club's only fit striker. [18] On 17 August 2021, Saunders scored his first goal for the club with the only goal in a victory over Oldham Athletic, the club's first win of the season, heading home a cross from Harry Anderson via a deflection. [19] After suffering an injury during an aerial collision in a match against Bradford City on 16 October, Saunders was ruled out until the new year with torn ankle ligaments. [20] On 29 January 2022, Saunders made his return to action from the bench as he assisted Rovers' late winner to defeat Walsall. [21]
On 27 January 2023, Saunders signed for League Two club Tranmere Rovers for an undisclosed fee on an eighteen-month contract. The club had previously tried to sign him in the summer. [22] [23]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Fleetwood Town | 2019–20 [24] | League One | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 12 | 0 |
2020–21 [25] | League One | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 [lower-alpha 2] | 5 | 29 | 8 | |
Total | 27 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 41 | 8 | ||
Darlington (loan) | 2019–20 | National League North | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
Hartlepool United (loan) | 2020–21 [25] | National League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Bristol Rovers | 2021–22 [26] | League Two | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 2] | 1 | 23 | 3 |
2022–23 [27] | League One | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 [lower-alpha 2] | 2 | 20 | 2 | |
Total | 33 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 43 | 5 | ||
Tranmere Rovers | 2022–23 [27] | League Two | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 |
2023–24 [28] | League Two | 37 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 3 | |
Total | 56 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 6 | ||
Career Total | 134 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 161 | 20 |
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