Luca Hoole
Hoole playing for Bristol Rovers in 2022.
Personal information
Full name Luca Anthony Hoole[1]
Date of birth (2002-06-02) 2 June 2002
Place of birth Newport, Wales[2]
Position(s) Full-back, centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Bristol Rovers
Number 30
Youth career
2014–2019 Bristol Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019– Bristol Rovers 78 (3)
2020 → Taunton Town (loan) 0 (0)
International career‡
2019 Wales U19 1 (0)
2020 Wales U20 1 (0)
2022– Wales U21 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:17, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:13, 13 October 2023

Luca Anthony Hoole (born 2 June 2002) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a full-back or centre-back for EFL League One club Bristol Rovers and the Wales national under-21 football team.

Club career

Bristol Rovers

Hoole attended Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw, a Welsh language school in Pontypool.[3] In 2014, Hoole joined the Bristol Rovers academy.[4] In April 2018, Bristol Rovers confirmed Hoole had signed a scholarship with the club.[5] On 3 September 2019, Hoole made his debut for Bristol Rovers in a 1–1 EFL Trophy draw against Plymouth Argyle.[6]

Taunton Town (loan)

On 30 October 2020, Hoole joined Taunton Town on a one-month loan deal.[7] Taunton played one match, a match that Hoole was not registered in time to feature in, before football was suspended on account of the lockdown measures brought in for COVID-19.[8]

Breakthrough at Bristol Rovers

After impressing for the club in pre-season, Hoole made his league debut on the opening day of the 2021–22 season, impressing in the right-back position during a 2–1 away defeat to Mansfield Town.[9] On 29 January 2022, Hoole received a first sending off of his career as he received two bookings in the space of five first-half minutes as ten-man Rovers scored a last-minute winner to defeat Walsall.[10] In February 2022, Hoole signed a new two-year extension to his contract.[11] Following a 4–0 thrashing of Stevenage, Rovers' manager Joey Barton said that Hoole had made the right-back position his own having dipped in and out of the team earlier in the season.[12] On 26 February 2022, Hoole scored a first senior goal with the opener in a 1–1 draw with Exeter City.[13] Hoole's first senior season ended with Rovers overtaking Northampton Town on the final day of the season to gain automatic promotion by goals scored, a dramatic 7–0 victory over Scunthorpe United securing this feat.[14]

Ahead of the 2022–23 season, Hoole featured for the club in pre-season in a less familiar centre-back role, impressing as Rovers defeated Championship side Stoke City.[15] For the first match of the new season, Hoole continued in this role with defensive partner James Connolly as Rovers fell to a late 2–1 defeat against Forest Green Rovers.[16] As the season developed, he began to find himself out of favour at the club and suffered from low confidence, however an impressive return to the first-team in December leading manager Barton to claim that he could one day captain the side.[17] His improvement in form continued into the second half of the season despite a rocky time for the team, impressing in a 3–0 victory over Oxford United that saw the team claim a first victory in seven weeks, Hoole scoring the third goal.[18]

International career

On 13 November 2019, Hoole made his debut for Wales under-19's in a 3–0 win against Poland U19.[19]

In May 2022, Hoole was called up to the Wales U21 team for the first time for the final 2023 U21 European Championship qualifiers against the Netherlands and Gibraltar.[20][21] Hoole made his debut in the second of the two matches, coming off of the bench with fifteen minutes left as Wales finished their campaign with a 2–0 win.[22]

Career statistics

As of end of 2022–23 season[23]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bristol Rovers 2019–20[24] League One 0000001[lower-alpha 1]010
2020–21[25] League One 0000000000
2021–22[26] League Two 29120001[lower-alpha 1]0321
2022–23[27] League One 37200106[lower-alpha 1]1443
Career total 663201081774
  1. 1 2 3 Appearance(s) in the Football League Trophy

References

  1. ↑ "Notification of shirt numbers: Bristol Rovers" (PDF). English Football League. p. 11. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Brwydr pel-droed llysoedd Bl 9" (in Welsh). Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Luca Hoole". Bristol Rovers F.C. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Interview: Scholars Luca Hoole and Luc Noble". Bristol Rovers F.C. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  6. ↑ "Plymouth Argyle vs. Bristol Rovers 1–1". Soccerway. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Loan Signing Joins Squad". tauntontown.com. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Football Suspended". tauntontown.com. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Mansfield Town 2–1 Bristol Rovers". BBC Sport. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  10. ↑ "Bristol Rovers 1–0 Walsall". BBC Sport. 29 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Hoole Signs New Deal". www.bristolrovers.co.uk. 11 February 2022.
  12. ↑ Horn, Kiernan; Frost, Sam (20 February 2022). "Every word Joey Barton said on Bristol Rovers' win, Sam Finley and Elliot Anderson's nickname". Bristol Post.
  13. ↑ "Bristol Rovers 1–1 Exeter City". BBC Sport. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "Bristol Rovers go up after extraordinary 7–0 win". BBC Sport. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  15. ↑ Frost, Sam (21 July 2022). "Joey Barton ponders position change for Bristol Rovers' breakout star". Bristol Post. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Bristol Rovers 1–2 Forest Green Rovers". BBC Sport. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  17. ↑ Piercy, James (14 December 2022). "Joey Barton makes bold Luca Hoole claim as young Bristol Rovers defender provides welcome impact". Bristol Post. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  18. ↑ Frost, Sam (27 February 2023). "Joey Barton predicts big things for homegrown Bristol Rovers talent after rising to challenge". Bristol Post. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  19. ↑ "#U19EURO Cymru 3–0 Poland". 13 November 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  20. ↑ "Luca Called Up To Wales U21s". www.bristolrovers.co.uk. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  21. ↑ "CYMRU SQUAD ANNOUNCED FOR FINAL U21 EURO QUALIFIERS". www.faw.cymru. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  22. ↑ "Cymru U21 finish campaign with a win". www.faw.cymru/en. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  23. ↑ Luca Hoole at Soccerway
  24. ↑ "Games played by Luca Hoole in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  25. ↑ "Games played by Luca Hoole in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  26. ↑ "Games played by Luca Hoole in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  27. ↑ "Games played by Luca Hoole in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 December 2022.


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