Full name Conor Mark Chaplin Weight 69 kg Number 19 Height 1.68 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Conor Chaplin Date joined 2014 | |
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Date of birth (1997-02-16) 16 February 1997 (age 18) Awards LFE League Two Apprentice Award | ||
Conor chaplin from youth team to first team
Conor Mark Chaplin (born 16 February 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays for Portsmouth of the EFL League One as a striker or winger. He is one of the most exciting young players in the EFL, with a great goal to start ratio.
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- Conor chaplin from youth team to first team
- Portsmouth goal scorers lewis gill conor chaplin talk to lfetv after victory over vitesse arnhem
- Portsmouth
- 201516 season
- 201617 season
- Career statistics
- Individual
- References
Portsmouth goal scorers lewis gill conor chaplin talk to lfetv after victory over vitesse arnhem
Portsmouth
Born in Worthing, Chaplin progressed through Portsmouth's youth categories after joining the club at the age of six. He was offered a two-year scholarship contract on 3 July 2013.
Chaplin signed a two-year professional deal with Pompey on 20 October 2014, after scoring 11 goals in 11 appearances for the under-18's. He made his League Two debut on 13 December, from the bench in a 2–3 home defeat against Accrington Stanley.
Chaplin scored his first professional goal on 11 April 2015, netting his team's only in a 1–3 away defeat against Morecambe. He made his first start for Pompey in their final game of the season, a 1–1 home draw against York City. At the end of the season he was named the League Two Apprentice of the Year. He has a family from Poland.
2015–16 season
Chaplin started the 2015–16 season on the bench, playing second fiddle to first-choice striker Matt Tubbs, but showcased his talents with goals against Championship clubs Derby and Reading in the first and second rounds of the Capital One Cup, also scoring in the 3rd round of the FA Cup in a 2–2 draw with Ipswich Town. He scored his first two league goals of the season in a 3–1 win over Barnet on 12 September. Although Chaplin struggled to maintain a first-team place in the league, he would still manage to score 11 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions.
2016–17 season
Competition for the sole striking berth in manager Paul Cook's preferred 4–2–3–1 formation was made all the more intense at the start of the 2016/17 season, following the signings of Michael Smith, who made his loan move permanent, as well as Curtis Main from Doncaster Rovers and experienced forward Noel Hunt. Chaplin subsequently found himself on the bench in the early weeks of the season, before the inconsistent form of Smith and Main, coupled with Hunt's injury problems, saw Chaplin promoted to the starting lineup. He grasped the opportunity, scoring league goals against Wycombe, Barnet, Blackpool, Notts County and Cambridge before the end of October – a run of form which would see him established as Portsmouth's first-choice striker.
As the season continued, Cook would rotate his centre-forwards, and Chaplin lost his place to the more physically-imposing Smith. Though Smith would ultimately fall out of favour and move to Northampton in the January transfer window, the signing of Eoin Doyle – who had previously played under Cook at Chesterfield – ensured that Chaplin would remain on the bench. Chaplin continued to make cameo appearances as a substitute, however, and took his tally to eight for the season with a last-gasp, 25 yard strike against Barnet to snatch a point in a 1–1 draw on 18 February.
Career statistics
