Tomáš Souček, born on 27 February 1995 (age 31), is a Czech centre midfielder with a career now shaped far more by West Ham United than by anything that came before it. Tall and imposing at 6ft 4in (1.92m), he has built much of his value on durability, aerial strength and a habit of arriving in the box rather more often than a holding midfielder is supposed to.
His most productive league season came at Slavia Prague in 2018–19, when he scored 10 goals in 29 appearances. That was the clearest early sign of the scoring streak that would later travel well to England, even if West Ham became the club where his role and reputation properly settled.
Across seven seasons with West Ham, Souček has made 229 league appearances and scored 41 league goals. Those are not decorative numbers for a centre midfielder. He has worn squad number 28 and, even in 2025–26, remains a regular part of the first-team picture, with 35 Premier League appearances and five league goals. In all competitions for West Ham this season, he has made 39 appearances and scored six times.
He has also stayed involved with the Czech Republic, making 10 appearances and scoring twice in European World Cup qualifying during the same campaign. His market value is around £10m, according to Transfermarkt.
Souček’s career is a straightforward one: productive at Slavia Prague, long-serving and consistently used at West Ham, and still relevant for club and country in his early thirties.
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