Louis Appéré
Personal information
Full name Louis George P. Appéré[1]
Date of birth (1999-03-26) 26 March 1999
Place of birth Perth, Scotland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Northampton Town
Number 9
Youth career
East Fife Junior Supporters' Club
Dunfermline Athletic
2015–2016 AM Soccer
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2022 Dundee United 61 (6)
2019 → Broughty Athletic (loan) 20 (22)
2022– Northampton Town 71 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Louis George P. Appéré (born 26 March 1999) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for EFL League One club Northampton Town. He made his senior debut in August 2017.

Early life

Louis Appéré was born in Perth on 26 March 1999.[3] He grew up in Cupar, Fife, where he attended Bell Baxter High School.[4] He started playing football for East Fife Junior Supporters' Club at the age of 9 and later spent two years as a youth player with Dunfermline Athletic.[3] He then joined Cupar-based AM Soccer, progressing through from the youth system.[4]

Club career

Appéré began the 2015–16 season playing youth football, before progressing to AM Soccer's adult amateur team as well as appearing as a trialist for Raith Rovers' under-20 development team.[4] In May 2016 he went to Italy for a trial with A.S. Roma after AM Soccer owner Austin MacPhee brought a YouTube video of the player to Roma's attention.[4] In July 2016, Appéré signed for Scottish Championship club Dundee United, whose manager Ray McKinnon had previously had him on trial at Raith.[5]

Appéré made his first team debut for Dundee United as a substitute in a Scottish Challenge Cup tie against Cowdenbeath on 15 August 2017.[1][6] He signed a new two-year contract with the club in May 2018.[7]

In January 2019, Appéré joined Scottish Junior Football East Region Super League club Broughty Athletic on loan until the end of the 2018–19 season.[8] After scoring 22 goals in 20 appearances for Broughty, he returned to Dundee United and was able to break into the first team squad on a regular basis.[9]

He scored his first goal for Dundee United on 19 July 2019 in a Scottish League Cup tie against Cowdenbeath.[10] His first league goal came on 30 August 2019, the second goal in a 6–2 victory in the Dundee derby against Dundee.[11] On 17 October 2019, the club announced that Appéré had extended his contract with Dundee United until the summer of 2022.[12] He went on to score 6 goals in 33 appearances during the 2019-20 season as Dundee United won the Championship title.[13]

Following United's promotion to the Scottish Premiership, Appéré initially struggled for playing time. He scored his first top-flight goal against St Johnstone on 12 January 2021, and also assisted Lawrence Shankland to score from 53 yards in the same match.[14]

Northampton Town

On 31 January 2022, Appéré joined EFL League Two club Northampton Town for an undisclosed fee, signing a two-and-a-half year deal.[15]

International career

Appéré was born in Scotland and is of French descent, and holds both passports.[16] He received his first call-up to the Scotland under-21 team for scheduled fixtures in March 2020 against Croatia and Greece, only for the matches to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[17][13]

Career statistics

As of match played 3 October 2023
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Dundee United 2017–18[18] Scottish Championship 0000001[lower-alpha 1]010
2018–19[19] 0000102[lower-alpha 1]030
2019–20[20] 26421411[lower-alpha 1]0336
2020–21[21] Scottish Premiership 221204000281
2021–22[22] 131101000151
Total 6165110140808
Northampton Town 2021–22[23] League Two 18300002[lower-alpha 2]0203
2022–23[24] 43800111[lower-alpha 3]0459
2023–24[25] League One 10300101[lower-alpha 3]0123
Total 71140021407715
Career total 13220511228015723
  1. 1 2 3 Appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup
  2. ↑ Appearances in League Two play-offs
  3. 1 2 Appearances in EFL Trophy

Honours

Northampton Town

References

  1. 1 2 "Louis Appéré". Arab Archive. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Louis Appéré". dundeeunitedfc.co.uk. Dundee United F.C. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Louis Appéré". Dundee United F.C. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Inglis, Scott (9 June 2016). "Louis feels comfortable mixing it with European football elite". Fife Today. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Roache, Ian (25 July 2016). "Dundee United win the battle to sign former Roma trialist Louis Appere". The Courier. Dundee. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Duthie, Tom (17 August 2017). "'Pat' on back for Dundee United striker N'Koyi and fringe players". Evening Telegraph. Dundee. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  7. ↑ Nicolson, Eric (16 May 2018). "Four young Dundee United players sign new deals". The Courier. Dundee. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Toshney amongst players going on loan". Dundee United F.C. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  9. ↑ Pattullo, Alan (10 August 2019). "Alan Pattullo: Louis Appere and the journey from Roma to Dundee United via Broughty Athletic". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Dundee United 3–0 Cowdenbeath". BBC. 19 July 2019.
  11. ↑ Elgott, Jordan (30 August 2019). "Dundee United 6–2 Dundee". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  12. ↑ "Louis Appéré signs contract extension". Dundee United Football Club. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  13. 1 2 Woodger, Calum (2 May 2020). "Louis Appere feared his days were done at Dundee United". Evening Telegraph. Dundee. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  14. ↑ Roache, Ian (16 January 2021). "Dundee United: Louis Appere unfazed by having first top-flight goal overshadowed and jokes about assist for Lawrence Shankland wonder strike". The Courier. Dundee. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "CONFIRMED: NORTHAMPTON TOWN COMPLETE SIGNING OF STRIKER LOUIS APPERE FOR AN UNDISCLOSED FEE". www.ntfc.co.uk. 31 January 2022.
  16. ↑ "Rangers battling Stoke for 'Brilliant' French right-winger Louis Appere". 7 April 2020.
  17. ↑ Roache, Ian (16 March 2020). "Dundee United's rising star Louis Appere has club and country double dream put on hold". The Courier. Dundee. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appere in 2017/2018". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  19. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  20. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  21. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  22. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  23. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  24. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  25. ↑ "Games played by Louis Appéré in 2023/2024". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  26. ↑ "NORTHAMPTON TOWN HAVE BEEN PROMOTED!". Northampton Town. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
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