Robbie Stockdale

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Personal information
Robbie Stockdale
Full name	Robert Keith Stockdale
Date of birth	30 November 1979 (1979-11-30) (age 28)
Place of birth	Redcar, England
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Free Agent
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–2004 2000 2003–2004 2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006 2006–2008	Middlesbrough → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) → West Ham United (loan) → Rotherham United (loan) Rotherham United Hull City → Darlington (loan) Tranmere Rovers	75 (2) 06 (0) 07 (0) 16 (1) 27 (0) 14 (0) 03 (0) 70 (0)
National team²
2002	Scotland	05 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 19:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Robert Stockdale (born 30 November 1979 in Redcar), is a Scottish football player. He began his career at Middlesbrough in 1997 after breaking from its youth system, however this was playing as a striker where he scored two goals in 35 appearances, but the Middlesbrough team had no space for strikers with the likes of Alen Boksic, Fabrizio Ravanelli and Hamilton Ricard in the senior squad. Stockdale was thus converted to a right back and made over 50 Premiership appearances as well as earning five international caps for Scotland. He had several loan spells during his time at Middlesbrough, to clubs such as Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham United.

In 2004, Stockdale moved to Rotherham United after a successful loan spell. Several months later he transferred to Hull City. After a troubled 2005–06 season when he failed to make a league appearance for Hull, Stockdale was signed on a two-year contract by his former Rotherham boss Ronnie Moore for Tranmere Rovers in a £100,000 deal which also brought Kevin Ellison to the club. He made 35 league appearances during his debut season of 2006–07. Stockdale continued to be first choice at right back during the 2007/08 season, but was released by the club at the end of the campaign.^[1]