Apostolos Stamatelopoulos

In 2025-26, Apostolos Stamatelopoulos was a productive but not automatic Premiership striker for Motherwell, making 19 appearances, starting nine and scoring six goals. That return from a split starting role pointed to a forward who carried goal threat without being fixed as the leading option, while one goal across seven League Cup appearances and none in one Scottish Cup outing added limited cup impact.

Stamatelopoulos's career path has been unsettled, taking him from Newcastle United Jets to Rodos, PAS Giannina, back to Newcastle Jets, then Motherwell, before a loan to Sydney FC. The standout spell in the supplied record was 17 goals in 2023-24, followed by five goals for Motherwell in 2024-25 and six in 2025-26, suggesting a striker whose Australian production translated into useful but less explosive output in Scotland.

The transfer record was built mostly on low-cost movement: free transfers between Newcastle United Jets, Rodos and PAS Giannina, then a €260k move from Newcastle United Jets to Motherwell in July 2024. The February 2026 loan from Motherwell to Sydney FC pointed to a return to the Australian market after a Scottish spell that produced goals but not a locked-in starting place.