Eric

Smith

Eric Smith history

Eric Smith was born on 8 January 1997 in Halmstad and plays for FC St. Pauli. He played for Halmstads BK from 2002-2016, for IFK Norrköping from 2016-2018, for KAA Gent from 2018-2019, for Tromsö IL from 2019-2019, for KAA Gent from 2020-2020, for IFK Norrköping from 2020-2020, for KAA Gent from 2021-2021 and has played for FC St. Pauli since 2021.

Current season 2024/25

In this season, Eric Smith has scored one goal and takes second place within his squad. He shares this rank with Carlo Boukhalfa and Oladapo Afolayan. Eric Smith was in the starting line-up in all previous seven games of the season. Of these, he won one game with his club.

His pass success rate is 85.98 per cent, which yields the 27-year-old the leading position in the team-internal statistics for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 71.43 per cent. In the league ranking for this category, he is second-best with this result.

Last game

The player with the shirt number 8 played his last game on the seventh matchday of the 2024/25 season (18 October 2024). Playing for FC St. Pauli, he lost to Borussia Dortmund 1-2. He played as a defender throughout this entire game. In doing so, Eric Smith scored one goal. In terms of total touches, he had 48 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in his club. Furthermore, he had eight tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, the 1.92m-tall defender was able to win five. He was additionally able to make 25 successful passes. He covered a distance of 10.9 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, Eric Smith had a total of seven sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Eric Smith has played seven matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won one. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of FC St. Pauli. Here, he has put a total of one ball in the net.