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based on the 2025/26 season · updated 18 Aug 2026

Profile

Full nameLuca Anthony Hoole
PositionCentre-back
NationalityWales
Age24
Date of birth2 Jun 2002
BirthplaceNewport
Height178 cm
Shirt number#2
ClubShrewsbury
Centre-back
9
Appearances
1
Goals
0
Assists
792
Minutes

Domestic-league season · Shrewsbury.

Performance data · by competition

CompetitionAppsGAMinMatch
League Cup100256.2

Scout report

Project playerBall-winning Central defender

L. Hoole is a 24-year-old central defender at Shrewsbury, rated 30.8 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 70th of 221 on scout potential in the League Two. An emerging talent, he has been a regular starter this season (61.8% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 4.5 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Hoole.

Judged on this season alone, Hoole graded 29 — an excellent campaign that ranks top 15% of the 47 centre-backs in the League Two, on 8 clean sheets and 4.504 defensive actions per 90.

Year-on-year, that's broadly in line with last season (Season 29 → 29). Over the 6 seasons on record his form has held fairly steady, peaking in 2021/22.

On long-term talent our Rating reads 31, top 37% of the 47 centre-backs in the League Two. At 24 Hoole is in his prime years, and a market index of 5.1 reflects that trajectory.

From the career report
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Hoole is operating at his career peak — the 2021/22 level is the level.

Peak: 2021/22Holding levelRemarkably consistentStepped up 2022/23
30.8
Ratingi
17th of 47 centre-backs
28.5
Seasoni
below regular-starter level
61.8%
Minutes
a regular starter
4.5
Def. actions / 90
solid defensive volume

Output in context · Shrewsbury finished 19th of 24 · a lower-table side

34
Apps
4.5
Def. / 90
84
Tackles
30
Interceptions
8
Clean sheets

4.5 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — solid defensive volume, with 8 clean sheets across 34 appearances. Doing that for a lower-table side (19th of 24) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight. Going forward he chipped in 3 goals and 1 assist — a useful bonus from the back.

Strengths

  • Availability. On the pitch for 61.8% of available minutes — a dependable presence in the XI.
  • Defensive volume. 4.5 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — does the unseen work.

Watch points

  • Level. Rates below a nailed-on top-tier starter on our model.

Outlook

With a Rating of 30.8, Hoole carries the 17th-highest potential of the centre-backs in the League Two (top 37%), and he is posting that for a lower-table side (Shrewsbury finished 19th of 24) — individual numbers are harder to earn on a struggling team, so his underlying level likely sits a touch above the ranking. Defensively he reads as solid defensive volume (4.5 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). Approaching peak years; value is still building (price multiplier 2×) with the best seasons likely ahead.

Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.

Season statistics

Bars = where he ranks among centre-backs in the League Two with 600+ minutes this season.

Shooting

Goals3

Passing

Assists1

Defending

Tackles84
Interceptions30
Blocks14

Yellow/red cards

Yellow cards6
Red cards0

Transfer news

No transfer news found for this player.