Jamie Vardy, born on 11 January 1987 (age 39), is an English striker now with Cremonese. His most productive league season came at Fleetwood Town in 2011-12, when he scored 31 goals in 36 appearances, the sort of return that tends to simplify a club’s recruitment meeting.
The centre of his career, though, is Leicester City. Across 13 seasons he made 440 league appearances and scored 183 league goals, a level of output and durability that made him far more than a short burst of late-developing form. Leicester was where his career took its real shape, and where he remained relevant long after the usual shelf life for a forward built on sharp movement and penalty-box timing.
He moved on to Cremonese, where he has continued to play regularly in 2025-26, making 29 Serie A appearances and scoring seven goals. His current market value is around £850,000, according to Transfermarkt.
Vardy was linked with a move to Celtic in August 2025 while at Cremonese. As it stands, his career remains a story of a prolific Fleetwood season, a long and substantial Leicester spell, and a late-career role in Italy.
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