Nathan Pond

Nathan Pond
Pond playing for Fleetwood Town in 2012
Personal information
Full name Nathan Louis Pond
Date of birth (1985-01-05) 5 January 1985
Place of birth Preston, England
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Salford City
Number 23
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003 Lancaster City 0 (0)
2003–2018 Fleetwood Town 460 (52)
2010 → Kendal Town (loan) 2 (0)
2012–2013 → Grimsby Town (loan) 26 (5)
2018– Salford City 13 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:35, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Nathan Louis Pond (born 5 January 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender and defensive midfielder for Salford City. He previously played for Fleetwood Town over a fifteen year period, whilst also having spells with Lancaster City, Kendal Town and Grimsby Town.

Having played in seven divisions for Fleetwood through the course of six promotions, Pond was recognised by Guinness as holding the world record for appearing in the most different divisions with a single football club.[1]

Career

Pond began his career with Northern Premier League side Lancaster City in 2003. Later that year he transferred to Fleetwood Town.[2]

Pond was the club's current longest-serving player, having played a club record of 423 matches since 2003.[3] including six promotions, most notably the club's promotion to the Football League in 2012.

He joined Kendal Town on a month's loan in December 2010,[4] making two appearances for the club. The loan was part of an agreement, due to the sale of Danny Rowe to Fleetwood.[5]

On 10 August 2012 Pond joined Grimsby Town on an initial one-month loan.[6] Having made his first appearance on 11 August 2012 against Southport at centre back,[7] during the following game on 14 August 2012 he scored a 69th-minute opening goal in the 1–2 home defeat against Stockport, a right-footed overhead kick in off the crossbar.[8] After playing three times for Grimsby, Pond extended his loan stay until January 2013.[9] On 8 September 2012 he scored his second goal for Grimsby in a 1–0 victory against Forest Green Rovers, a glancing header from a Frankie Artus free-kick.[10]

Following a successful loan spell, Grimsby looked into extending Pond's loan beyond January or possibly securing him on a permanent deal but on 1 January 2013 they admitted it was unlikely because Fleetwood were interested in taking the player back to look at him.[11] Pond's final appearance for Grimsby in his loan spell brought his fifth goal of the season against Hereford United, two minutes into the game. Pond commented before his final game that the loan spell had been successful for both himself and the club and that he would relish the prospect of returning to Grimsby on a permanent deal in the January transfer window if he was unable to win back his place in the Fleetwood team.[12]

He passed Jack Ainscough's record of 421 appearances for Fleetwood in the penultimate game of the 2015–16 season, ending the season on 423 appearances.[3]

Fleetwood exercised a one-year contract extension for him at the end of the 2017–18 season.[13]

In May 2018 he joined Salford City.[14]

Career statistics

Club

As of 17 July 2017
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Fleetwood Town 2006–07[15] NPL Premier Division 10---10
2007–08[16] 00---00
2008–09[17] Conference North 20---20
2009–10[18] 10---10
2010–11[19] Conference Premier 23210---00242
2011–12[20] 34140---00341
2012–13[21] League Two 120000000120
2013–14[22] 41120008[lower-alpha 1]1512
2014–15[23] League One 271101000291
2015–16[24] 21010004[lower-alpha 2]0291
2016–17[25] 32050101[lower-alpha 3]0390
Fleetwood total 1905180201312236
Grimsby Town (loan) 2012–13[21] Conference Premier 2605000---265
Career total 216101802013124911
  1. ↑ Five appearances in the Football League Trophy and three in the League Two play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearances in the Football League Trophy
  3. ↑ Appearance in the League One play-offs

Honours

Fleetwood Town

References

  1. ↑ "Pondy the world record breaker!". Fleetwood Town F.C. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  2. ↑ "Football statistics and history". 11v11. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Captain will beat Jack Ainscough's record of 421 appearances". Fleetwood Town F.C. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Introducing Kendal Town's Latest Loan Signing". Kendal Town F.C. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Danny Rowe Signs for Fleetwood Town". Kendal Town F.C. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Pond Joins Town". Grimsby Town F.C. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "Southport 1–1 Grimsby". BBC Sport. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  8. ↑ "Grimsby 1–2 Stockport". BBC Sport. 14 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "Nathan Pond's satisfaction at another Grimsby Town shut-out". Grimsby Telegraph. 3 September 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  10. ↑ "Grimsby 1–0 Forest Green". BBC Sport. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  11. ↑ "Paul Hurst shares the latest Grimsby Town transfer news". This is Grimsby. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "Unknown". Grimsby Telegraph.
  13. ↑ "Fleetwood: George Glendon, Chris Neal and Ricardo Kip released". BBC Sport. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "Nathan Pond: Fleetwood Town captain leaves to join Salford City". BBC Sport. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2006/2007". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  16. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2007/2008". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  17. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2008/2009". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  18. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2009/2010". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  19. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2010/2011". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  20. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2011/2012". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  21. 1 2 "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2012/2013". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  22. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  23. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  24. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  25. ↑ "Games played by Nathan Pond in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
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