External links
- Sammy Smith at Soccerway.com
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samantha Rose Smith [1] | ||
| Date of birth | May 7, 2001 [1] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) [2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Boston Legacy | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2022 | Boston College Eagles | 72 | (26) |
| 2023 | Texas A&M Aggies | 22 | (3) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024 | FHL | 14 | (15) |
| 2024 | → Breiðablik (loan) | 7 | (9) |
| 2025 | Breiðablik | 23 | (12) |
| 2026– | Boston Legacy | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of October 18, 2025 | |||
Samantha Rose Smith (born May 7, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Boston Legacy FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Boston College Eagles and the Texas A&M Aggies. She began her professional career in Iceland in 2024, first helping lead FHL into the top flight, then winning two national championships and one national cup with Breiðablik.
Smith grew up in Hanson, Massachusetts, one of three children born to David and Renee Smith. [2] She played soccer and basketball at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, earning state all-star honors as a defender. [2] [3] She played club soccer for South Shore Select. Initially committed to New Hampshire, she switched her college commitment to Boston College. [4] [5]
Smith started all 18 games in her freshman season with the Boston College Eagles in 2019. She led the team with 8 goals, which included two braces – in a win against Princeton and a loss to Florida State – and was named to the ACC all-freshman team. She went on to be Boston College's leading scorer in three out of her four years on the team, finishing with 26 goals in 72 games. [2] With a fifth year of college eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith transferred to the Texas A&M Aggies in 2023. She scored 3 goals and led the team with 7 assists in 22 games, helping the Aggies to the SEC tournament semifinals. [6]
Smith signed her first professional contract with Icelandic club FHL, playing in the second-tier 1. deild kvenna, in February 2024. [7] She scored 15 goals in 14 games, second in the league only to her teammate Emma Hawkins, as the club won the league title and earned promotion to the top-flight Besta deild kvenna. [8] [9] In August 2024, she joined first-tier club Breiðablik on loan until the end of the Besta deild kvenna season. [9] She scored 9 goals in 7 league games, including a 14-minute hat trick against Þór/KA, as she helped Breiðablik win the league title. [10] [11] In doing so, she achieved the rare combination of winning Iceland's second-division and first-division league titles in the same year. [8] On September 4, she scored her first continental goal against Minsk in her debut in UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying, before Breiðablik lost to Sporting CP in the next round. [12] She re-signed with Breiðablik for the following season. [13]
Smith scored 12 goals in 24 league games in 2025, helping Breiðablik retain the league title. [12] On August 16, she scored two goals including the extra-time winner in a 3–2 victory over FH to win the Icelandic Women's Football Cup. [14] Later that month, she scored twice against Athlone Town in Champions League qualifying. Breiðablik lost in the next round but earned a place in the inaugural UEFA Women's Europa Cup. [12] On November 19, she scored a goal and forced a stoppage-time own goal against Fortuna Hjørring in the Europa Cup round of sixteen away leg, helping Breiðablik overturn a 3–0 aggregate deficit to advance to the Europa Cup quarterfinals. [15]
On December 29, 2025, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team Boston Legacy announced that they had signed Smith to a two-year contract. [16]
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