page_title: Anthony Stokes
section_title: 2012–13
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony Stokes / Club career / Celtic / 2012–13
caption_attribution_description: English: Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer Deutsch: Anthony Stokes, irischer Fußballspieler
context_page_description: Anthony Christopher Stokes is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership club Livingston, as a striker. He was also an Irish international, having played at the under-21, team B and Republic of Ireland national football team.
  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. In the latter part of the 2015–16 season he was loaned to Hibernian, who he helped win the 2015–16 Scottish Cup.
  After a season with Blackburn Rovers, Stokes joined Hibernian for a third time in 2017 but was released in 2018.
context_section_description: Stokes made his first appearance of the 2012–13 season as a substitute in the Champions League qualifier against HJK Helsinki. Stokes then started the next game against Aberdeen.  Stokes then picked up an injury which kept him out of action for five months until January 2013, when he returned as a sub in a league game against Dundee United.  In December 2012, Stokes was disciplined by Celtic after he had attended a benefit event for Alan Ryan, a deceased member of the Real Irish Republican Army.  Stokes scored his first goal of the 2012–13 season against Kilmarnock on 30 January, and scored twice against Dundee United two weeks later.  Stokes provided both assists for Gary Hooper's two goals in the first half of the 2013 Scottish Cup Final, against former club Hibs. He also received the man-of-the-match award as Celtic ran out 3–0 winners.
caption: Anthony Stokes playing for Celtic, 2012
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