29 Facts About Liam Lawrence

Liam Lawrence was born on 14 December 1981 and is a former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

Liam Lawrence joined Stoke City, on loan in 2006, and made his move permanent in January 2007.

Liam Lawrence became a key player for Stoke, and helped the club to promotion to the Premier League in 2008, earning himself Player of the Year award.

Liam Lawrence then returned to England for a brief spell at Barnsley in 2014 before joining Shrewsbury Town, captaining the side to promotion to League One in his only full season before a free transfer to Bristol Rovers.

Liam Lawrence was born in Retford, Nottinghamshire, and joined Mansfield Town's youth team in 1996.

Liam Lawrence had a promising first season at Sunderland, scoring 6 goals in 32 appearances, including two superb strikes against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Stadium of Light on 2 November 2004.

Liam Lawrence helped create one of the most important goals in Sunderland's season, scored by Marcus Stewart, against Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium.

Liam Lawrence joined Stoke City initially on loan in November 2006 after falling out of favour with Roy Keane with the deal becoming permanent in January 2007.

Liam Lawrence made a fine start to his Stoke career scoring against Cardiff City and Ipswich Town.

Liam Lawrence struck a great partnership with Ricardo Fuller and the pair scored a combined total of 30 goals with Liam Lawrence winning the player of the year award.

Liam Lawrence scored Stoke's first home goal in the Premier League in 2008 when he scored a penalty against Aston Villa.

However Liam Lawrence injured himself when he tripped over his pet Labrador damaging his ankle.

Liam Lawrence had to undergo ankle surgery to repair a tear in the ligament.

Liam Lawrence returned from injury towards the end of the season and scored winning goals in games against Blackburn Rovers and Hull City, with the latter securing Stoke's survival.

Liam Lawrence signed a new contract at Stoke in July 2009 keeping him at the Britannia Stadium until 2013.

On 1 January 2011, Liam Lawrence completed his permanent move to Portsmouth, signing until the summer of 2014.

Liam Lawrence left Portsmouth on 10 August 2012 after agreeing to a compromise deal to terminate his contract.

Liam Lawrence joined Championship rivals Cardiff City on loan till the end of the season as Portsmouth's dire financial situation meant they needed to take cost-cutting measures.

Liam Lawrence was interested in making the move permanent but manager Malky Mackay stated that he was interested but signing him wasn't priority.

Liam Lawrence played 14 times for the Tykes scoring once as the side suffered relegation and at the end of the campaign he was not offered a new contract at Oakwell.

On 4 July 2014, Liam Lawrence signed a two-year contract with League Two side Shrewsbury Town.

Liam Lawrence had a hand in the winning goal, as his second-half free kick was headed on by Jermaine Grandison, for James Collins to loop over Norwich goalkeeper Declan Rudd.

Liam Lawrence did not regularly start for Shrewsbury following their promotion and, as one of the club's higher earners, was allowed to join League Two side Bristol Rovers on a free transfer on 7 January 2016.

Liam Lawrence helped Rovers achieve automatic promotion seeing his side reach 85 points and overtaking Accrington Stanley on the last day of the season.

Liam Lawrence is an Irish citizen through his County Kerry-born grandfather.

On 16 February 2006, Liam Lawrence received his first international call-up, for the Republic of Ireland in their friendly game against Sweden on 3 March, but spent the entire match as an unused substitute.

On 18 May 2009, Liam Lawrence was named in the Irish squad for a friendly with Nigeria and subsequently made his debut in that match ten days later.

Liam Lawrence has not played for Ireland since 29 May 2011.

Liam Lawrence moved up to the under-21 side in July 2024, working alongside Ryan Shawcross.