Jermain Defoe

**Jermain Defoe** (born 7 October 1982) is a former English football player. He played more than 600 league games including two spells at Tottenham Hotspur. He made over 50 appearances for the England national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|West Ham United|1999–2000|Premier League|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|—|0|0||
|2000–01|Premier League|1|0|—|1|1|—|—|2|1||||||
|2001–02|Premier League|35|10|3|4|1|0|—|—|39|14|||||
|2002–03|Premier League|38|8|2|2|2|1|—|—|42|11|||||
|2003–04|First Division|19|11|0|0|3|4|—|—|22|15|||||
|AFC Bournemouth (loan)|2000–01|Second Division|29|18|1|1|—|—|1|0|31|19||||
|rowspan="6"|Tottenham Hotspur|2003–04|Premier League|15|7|0|0|—|—|—|15|7||||
|2004–05|Premier League|35|13|5|4|4|5|—|—|44|22|||||
|2005–06|Premier League|36|9|1|0|1|0|—|—|38|9|||||
|2006–07|Premier League|34|10|5|1|5|4|4|3|—|48|18||||
|2007–08|Premier League|19|4|2|0|5|1|5|3|—|31|8||||
|rowspan="3"|Portsmouth|2007–08|Premier League|12|8|—|—|—|—|12|8|||||
|2008–09|Premier League|19|7|0|0|0|0|4|2|1|0|24|9|||
|rowspan="7"|Tottenham Hotspur|2008–09|Premier League|8|3|1|0|1|1|—|—|10|4|||
|2009–10|Premier League|34|18|7|5|2|1|—|—|43|24|||||
|2010–11|Premier League|22|4|2|2|0|0|6|3|—|30|9||||
|2011–12|Premier League|25|11|6|3|1|0|6|3|—|38|17||||
|2012–13|Premier League|34|11|0|0|1|0|8|4|—|43|15||||
|2013–14|Premier League|14|1|0|0|3|2|5|7|—|22|10||||
|Toronto FC|2014|Major League Soccer|19|11|2|1|—|—|—|21|12|||||
|rowspan="4"|Sunderland|2014–15|Premier League|17|4|2|0|—|—|—|19|4||||
|2015–16|Premier League|33|15|0|0|1|3|—|—|34|18|||||
|2016–17|Premier League|37|15|2|0|1|0|—|—|40|15|||||
|rowspan="3"|AFC Bournemouth|2017–18|Premier League|24|4|0|0|2|0|—|—|26|4|||
|2018–19|Premier League|4|0|0|0|4|0|—|—|8|0|||||
|rowspan="2"|Rangers (loan)|2018–19|Scottish Premiership|17|8|3|0|—|—|—|20|8||||
|2019–20|Scottish Premiership|20|13|2|1|3|1|7|2|—|32|17||||
|rowspan="3"|Rangers|2020–21|Scottish Premiership|15|4|2|1|2|1|1|1|—|20|7||
|2021–22|Scottish Premiership|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|—|2|0||||
|Sunderland|2021–22|League One|7|0|—|—|—|—|7|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|England|2004|8|1|
|2005|7|0|||
|2006|6|2|||
|2007|5|0|||
|2008|6|3|||
|2009|6|5|||
|2010|7|4|||
|2011|1|0|||
|2012|6|2|||
|2013|3|2|||
|2017|2|1|||

- _Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Defoe goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Cap|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1|8 September 2004|Silesian Stadium, Chorzów, Poland|5||1–0|2–1|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|2|2 September 2006|Old Trafford, Manchester, England|18|rowspan="2"|align="center"|3–0|5–0|UEFA Euro 2008 qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|3|align="center"|4–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|4|1 June 2008|Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago|28|rowspan="2"|align="center"|2–0|3–0|Friendly||||||||||
|align="center"|5|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|6|11 October 2008|Wembley Stadium, London, England|31||5–1|5–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|7|10 June 2009|Wembley Stadium, London, England|34|rowspan="2"|align="center"|4–0|6–0|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|8|align="center"|5–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|9|12 August 2009|Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands|35|rowspan="2"|align="center"|1–2|2–2|Friendly||||||||||
|align="center"|10|align="center"|2–2|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|11|5 September 2009|Wembley Stadium, London, England|36||2–0|2–1|Friendly||||||||||
|align="center"|12|23 June 2010|Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa|42||1–0|1–0|2010 FIFA World Cup||||||||||
|align="center"|13|3 September 2010|Wembley Stadium, London, England|44|rowspan="3"|align="center"|1–0|4–0|UEFA Euro 2012 qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|14|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|15|align="center"|4–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|16|15 August 2012|Stade de Suisse, Bern, Switzerland|49||2–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||||
|align="center"|17|7 September 2012|Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova|50||3–0|5–0|2014 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|18|22 March 2013|San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino|53|rowspan="2"|align="center"|3–0|8–0|2014 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||
|align="center"|19|align="center"|8–0|||||||||||||||
|align="center"|20|26 March 2017|Wembley Stadium, London, England|56||1–0|2–0|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||||

## Honours

**Tottenham Hotspur**
- Football League Cup: 2007–08

**Rangers**
- Scottish Premiership: 2020–21
- Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2019–20

**Individual**
- Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year: 2004
- Premier League Player of the Month: August 2009
- Sunderland Supporters' Player of the Year: 2015–16
- Sunderland Player of the Year: 2015–16
- North-East FWA Player of the Year: 2016

**Orders**
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 2018

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Jermain Defoe
<small>Order of the British Empire, OBE</small>
- **image**: Jermain-Defoe (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Defoe in 2009
- **full name**: Jermain Colin Defoe
- **birth place**: Beckton, England
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **currentclub**: Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur
(under-18s coach)
- **youthclubs1**: Senrab F.C., Senrab
- **youthyears2**: 1997–1999
- **youthclubs2**: Charlton Athletic F.C. Academy, Charlton Athletic
- **youthyears3**: 1999
- **youthclubs3**: West Ham United F.C. Reserves and Academy, West Ham United
- **years1**: 1999–2004
- **clubs1**: West Ham United F.C., West Ham United
- **caps1**: 93
- **goals1**: 29
- **years2**: 2000–2001
- **clubs2**: → AFC Bournemouth (loan)
- **caps2**: 29
- **goals2**: 18
- **years3**: 2004–2008
- **clubs3**: Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur
- **caps3**: 139
- **goals3**: 43
- **years4**: 2008
- **clubs4**: → Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth (loan)
- **caps4**: 1
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 2008–2009
- **clubs5**: Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth
- **caps5**: 30
- **goals5**: 14
- **years6**: 2009–2014
- **clubs6**: Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur
- **caps6**: 135
- **goals6**: 47
- **years7**: 2014
- **clubs7**: Toronto FC
- **caps7**: 19
- **goals7**: 11
- **years8**: 2014
- **clubs8**: → Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur (loan)
- **caps8**: 2
- **goals8**: 1
- **years9**: 2015–2017
- **clubs9**: Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland
- **caps9**: 87
- **goals9**: 34
- **years10**: 2017–2020
- **clubs10**: AFC Bournemouth
- **caps10**: 28
- **goals10**: 4
- **years11**: 2019–2020
- **clubs11**: → Rangers F.C., Rangers (loan)
- **caps11**: 37
- **goals11**: 21
- **years12**: 2020–2022
- **clubs12**: Rangers F.C., Rangers
- **caps12**: 17
- **goals12**: 4
- **years13**: 2022
- **clubs13**: Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland
- **caps13**: 7
- **goals13**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 624
- **totalgoals**: 227
- **nationalteam1**: England national under-16 football team, England U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 8
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2000–2001
- **nationalteam2**: England national under-18 football team, England U18
- **nationalcaps2**: 7
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2001–2003
- **nationalteam3**: England national under-21 football team, England U21
- **nationalcaps3**: 23
- **nationalgoals3**: 7
- **nationalyears4**: 2004–2017
- **nationalteam4**: England national football team, England
- **nationalcaps4**: 57
- **nationalgoals4**: 20
- **manageryears1**: 2021
- **managerclubs1**: Rangers F.C., Rangers (caretaker)