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Eric Smith

Eric Smith

SwedenDefender · FC St. Pauli · №8

29 y.o. · 192 cm · 86 kg · right

34 Matches
25 In the starting XI
378 Minutes
2 Goals
2 Assists

Recent matches

Date Match Score
Arminia Bielefeld FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 2:2
FC St. Pauli FC Kaiserslautern 2. Bundesliga 1:2
Rot-Weiß Essen FC St. Pauli DFB Pokal 2:0
Holstein Kiel FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 2:2
FC St. Pauli SpVgg Greuther Fürth 2. Bundesliga 1:1
France Sweden World Cup 3:0
Japan Sweden World Cup 1:1
Netherlands Sweden World Cup 5:1
Sweden Tunisia World Cup 5:1
RB Leipzig FC St. Pauli Bundesliga 2:1
All player matches

Season statistics

34 Matches
25 In the starting XI
2 Goals
2 Assists
378 Minutes
Competition Season Games
Bundesliga 2025 24
2. Bundesliga 2026 4
World Cup 2026 4
DFB Pokal 2026 1
World Cup - Qualification Europe 2024 1

About the player

Eric Smith stands out at FC St. Pauli less for a single moment than for the range he has offered a promotion-winning side: he spent much of the second half of the 2023–24 season pushed into a defensive-midfield role, a switch that led some to list him as a midfielder altogether. He made 26 league appearances that season and had by then already served as club captain.

Smith is a product of Halmstads BK's youth system, making his senior debut there before a move to IFK Norrköping in January 2016. Two and a half years later he joined Belgian club KAA Gent, though his time there was broken up by three separate loan spells: to Tromsø IL, back to IFK Norrköping, and finally to St. Pauli in January 2021.

Internationally, Smith represented Sweden at youth level, earning caps for the under-17 and under-19 sides, but has not featured for the senior national team.

Career path

  1. 2021 — 2027 — now FC St. Pauli 149 matches
  2. 2016 — 2020 IFK Norrköping 87 matches
  3. 2019 Tromsø IL 11 matches
  4. 2019 Gent 3 matches
  5. 2016 — 2017 IFK Norrköping U21 16 matches
  6. 2013 — 2016 Halmstads BK 42 matches
  7. 2013 — 2015 Halmstads BK U21 19 matches
  8. 2013 — 2014 Halmstads BK U19 14 matches

Career

Season Club Competition Games Goals Assists Minutes
26/27 FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 2 0 0 31
26/27 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 1 0 0 25
25/26 FC St. Pauli Bundesliga 27 2 2 2 314
25/26 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 3 0 0 322
24/25 FC St. Pauli Bundesliga 32 1 1 2 828
24/25 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 2 1 0 210
23/24 FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 26 1 3 2 241
23/24 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 4 1 3 382
22/23 FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 26 2 2 2 272
22/23 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 2 1 1 210
21/22 FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 17 0 1 1 210
21/22 FC St. Pauli Germany Cup 2 0 1 180
2020 IFK Norrköping Allsvenskan 27 0 1 2 255
2019 Tromsø IL Eliteserien 11 0 2 952
2018 IFK Norrköping Allsvenskan 9 0 0 716
2017 IFK Norrköping Allsvenskan 24 0 0 1 173
2017 IFK Norrköping U21 Folksam U21 Allsvenskan Norra 8 2 0 720
2017 IFK Norrköping U21 U21 Allsvenskan Slutspelet 1 0 0 90
2016 IFK Norrköping Allsvenskan 10 0 0 213
2016 IFK Norrköping U21 Folksam U21 Allsvenskan Norra 4 1 0 360
2016 IFK Norrköping U21 U21 Allsvenskan Slutspelet 3 0 1 270
2015 Halmstads BK Allsvenskan 27 0 0 1 738
2015 Halmstads BK U21 Folksam U21 Allsvenskan Södra 7 0 0 561
2014 Halmstads BK U21 Folksam U21 Allsvenskan Södra 10 0 0 875
2014 Halmstads BK Allsvenskan 9 1 0 85
2014 Halmstads BK U19 U19 Allsvenskan Södra 2 0 1 180
2013 Halmstads BK U19 U19 Allsvenskan Södra 12 2 4 1 035
2013 Halmstads BK U21 Folksam U21 Allsvenskan Södra 2 0 0 180
20/21 FC St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga 5 0 1 293
18/19 Gent Jupiler Pro League 2 0 0 97
18/19 Gent Croky Cup 1 0 0 16
17/18 IFK Norrköping Svenska Cupen 4 0 1 237
17/18 IFK Norrköping UEFA Europa League Qualifying 4 0 0 154
16/17 IFK Norrköping Svenska Cupen 6 0 0 398
16/17 IFK Norrköping UEFA Champions League Qualifying 2 0 0 83
15/16 IFK Norrköping Svenska Cupen 1 0 0 67
15/16 Halmstads BK Svenska Cupen 1 0 0 90
13/14 Halmstads BK Svenska Cupen 4 0 0 352
12/13 Halmstads BK Svenska Cupen 1 0 0 56
Total FC St. Pauli 149 9 15 12 518

Transfers

Transfers
  • 21/22 Gent FC St. Pauli €600.00K
  • 20/21 FC St. Pauli Gent
  • 20/21 Gent FC St. Pauli
  • 20/21 Norrkoping Gent
  • 19/20 Gent Norrkoping
  • 19/20 Tromso Gent
  • 19/20 Gent Tromso
  • 18/19 Norrkoping Gent
  • 15/16 Halmstads BK Norrkoping
  • 14/15 Halmstad U19 Halmstads BK
  • 13/14 Halmstad U17 Halmstad U19

Teammates

Louis Oppie Midfielder · №23 Lars Ritzka Defender · №21 Martijn Kaars Forward · №19 Ben Alexander Voll Goalkeeper · №1 Arkadiusz Pyrka Midfielder · №11 Joel Chima Fujita Midfielder · №16