Brian Wake

Brian Wake

Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-08-13) 13 August 1982
Place of birth	Stockton-on-Tees, England
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Ytterhogdals IK
Youth career
	Tow Law Town
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2004	Carlisle United	43	(9)
2004–2005	Gretna	17	(8)
2005–2006	Scarborough	13	(5)
2006–2008	Hamilton Academical	61	(11)
2008–2010	Greenock Morton	56	(17)
2010–2011	Gateshead	31	(3)
2011–2012	Östersunds FK	33	(26)
2012	Umeå	10	(1)
2014	Ytterhogdals IK
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 January 2013

Brian Wake (born 13 August 1982) is an English footballer.

Career

Wake's notable contributions in football have been a hat-trick at Shrewsbury to keep Carlisle in The Football League, winning a first division title medal with Hamilton Accies (although he had left for Morton in January 2008) and four goals in Morton's last three games of season 2007–08 (including a double at Firhill against Partick Thistle) to keep them in Division One.

Wake signed a new contract in May 2009, along with Alex Walker, for another year at Morton.

Wake scored the fiftieth league goal of his career against Airdrie United in November 2009.

Wake signed for Gateshead on 26 January 2010, making his debut as a 55th-minute substitute in a 2–0 defeat to Kettering Town. Wake scored his first goals for Gateshead on 6 February against Mansfield Town. He was made available for transfer by Gateshead on 13 January 2011 after only managing to make 7 substitute appearances up to then during the 2010–11 season. Two days later, Wake scored his first goal of the season as a second-half substitute in a 6–0 win in the FA Trophy against Hampton & Richmond Borough. On 10 March 2011, it was announced that Wake had secured a move to an unnamed Swedish club on a two-year contract, the club was later revealed to be Östersunds FK.

He made his competitive debut for Östersund against Friska Viljor in the first round of the 2011 Svenska Cupen, scoring four goals in a 6–1 victory.

On 25 July 2012, Wake signed for Superettan side Umeå. He made his debut on 4 August 2012 in a 0–1 loss to Hammarby. He scored his first goal for Umeå on 13 August 2012 in a 1–0 win over Jönköpings Södra. In January 2013 it was announced that Wake would return to Östersund where he would play for IFK Östersund combined with working as an assistant coach for his former club Östersunds FK.

Honours

Hamilton Academical

• Scottish Football League First Division: 2007–08

Östersunds

• Division 2 Norrland: 2011
• DM Cup: 2011

Career statistics

Club

As of 20 August 2012

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Carlisle United	2002–03	28	9	1	0	1	0	3	0	33	9
	2003–04	15	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	19	2
	Total	43	9	2	0	2	0	5	2	52	11
Gretna	2003–04	11	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	5
	2004–05	6	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	3
	Total	17	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	18	8
Scarborough	2005–06	13	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	5
Hamilton Academical	2005–06	10	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	14	5
	2006–07	32	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	34	5
	2007–08	19	1	0	0	4	2	1	0	24	3
	Total	61	11	5	0	4	2	2	0	72	13
Greenock Morton	2007–08	11	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	4
	2008–09	32	9	1	0	3	2	3	1	39	12
	2009–10	13	4	3	0	2	0	1	0	19	4
	Total	56	17	5	0	5	2	4	1	70	20
Gateshead	2009–10	18	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	20	3
	2010–11	13	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	16	2
	Total	31	3	0	0	0	0	5	2	36	5
Östersunds	2011	20	24	2	4	0	0	2	3	24	31
	2012	13	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	2
	Total	33	26	2	4	0	0	2	3	37	33
Umeå	2012	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	1
Career totals		264	80	15	4	11	4	19	8	309	96

A. ^ The "League" column constitutes appearances and goals (including those as a substitute) in The Football League, Scottish Football League, Football Conference, Superettan, Swedish football Division 1 & Swedish football Division 2.

B. ^ The "FA Cup" column constitutes appearances and goals (including those as a substitute) in the FA Cup & Svenska Cupen.

C. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals (including those as a substitute) in the FA Trophy, Football League Trophy, Scottish Challenge Cup & DM Cup.

External links

• Brian Wake career statistics at Soccerbase
• Brian Wake on Twitter

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