Anthony Stokes

Club

_Retired Soccer

Position

Forward

Nationality

Ireland

Date of birth

1988-07-25

Birthplace

Dublin, Ireland

Height

1.75

Weight

71.2

Signing / transfer fee

Signed

Anthony Stokes (born 25 July 1988) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tractor Sazi in Persian Gulf Pro League.

Stokes began his senior career with Arsenal, but established himself with a successful loan spell with Falkirk in 2006, scoring 14 goals in 16 SPL games. Stokes then signed for Sunderland in a £2 million deal, but he struggled to hold down a place in the Sunderland first team.

He moved back to Scottish football when Hibernian signed him for £500,000 in August 2009. He again enjoyed success in the SPL, scoring over 20 goals in his only full season with Hibs. Stokes moved to boyhood heroes Celtic shortly after the start of the following season, for a fee of around £1.2 million. Stokes played regularly for Celtic under the management of Neil Lennon and enjoyed success, but fell out of favour under Ronny Deila. He was loaned to Hibernian for the latter part of the 2015–16 season, who he helped win the 2015–16 Scottish Cup.