Michail Antonio
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Antonio with West Ham United in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michail Gregory Antonio[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 28 March 1990[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Wandsworth, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward[4] | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2008 | Tooting & Mitcham United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 4 | (4) |
| 2008–2012 | Reading | 28 | (1) |
| 2009 | → Tooting & Mitcham United (loan) | 5 | (3) |
| 2009 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Southampton (loan) | 28 | (3) |
| 2011 | → Colchester United (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2012 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 14 | (5) |
| 2012–2014 | Sheffield Wednesday | 64 | (12) |
| 2014–2015 | Nottingham Forest | 50 | (16) |
| 2015–2025 | West Ham United | 268 | (68) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | Jamaica | 24 | (5) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 03:40, 25 June 2025 (UTC) | |||
Michail Gregory Antonio (born 28 March 1990) is a professional footballer and pundit who plays as a forward for the under-21 side of Premier League club West Ham United. Born in England, he plays for the Jamaica national team.
Antonio began his career at non-League club Tooting & Mitcham United before signing with Reading of the Championship in 2008. The club sent him on subsequent loan spells to Cheltenham Town, back to Tooting & Mitcham, Southampton and Colchester United, as he struggled to find a place in Reading's first team throughout his four-year stay at the Madejski. A final loan spell with Sheffield Wednesday resulted in a permanent move in 2012, where he went on to make 64 appearances and score 12 goals. Nottingham Forest signed him from Wednesday in 2014, where his 16 goals in 50 appearances attracted attention from West Ham United of the Premier League, who signed him in 2015, where he was deployed in a number of positions including right back, right midfielder and as a winger before eventually establishing himself as the club's main striker. On 23 August 2021, he became West Ham United's top scorer in the Premier League. With West Ham, he won the UEFA Conference League in 2022–23.
Antonio was called up for England in 2016 and 2017, but did not play. He made his debut for Jamaica in 2021 and was part of their squads at the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the 2024 Copa América and the 2025 Gold Cup, reaching the semi-finals of the former.
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- ^ "M.Antonio". Soccerway. Perform Group. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
- ^ "Winger, striker or full-back? Michail Antonio is West Ham's unorthodox hero". twenty3. 17 July 2020. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.