Sammy Smith (soccer, born 2001)
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 Smith with the Boston Legacy in 2026 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samantha Rose Smith[1] | ||
| Date of birth | May 7, 2001[1] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Boston Legacy | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2022 | Boston College Eagles | 72 | (26) |
| 2023 | Texas A&M Aggies | 22 | (3) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024 | FHL | 14 | (15) |
| 2024 | → Breiðablik (loan) | 7 | (9) |
| 2025 | Breiðablik | 23 | (12) |
| 2026– | Boston Legacy | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of March 21, 2026 | |||
Samantha Rose Smith (born May 7, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Boston Legacy FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Boston College Eagles and the Texas A&M Aggies. She began her professional career in Iceland in 2024, winning top-flight promotion with FHL and two national championships and one national cup with Breiðablik.
Smith grew up in Hanson, Massachusetts, one of three children born to David and Renee Smith.[2] She played soccer and basketball at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, earning state all-star honors as a defender.[2][3] Initially committed to New Hampshire, she switched her college commitment to Boston College.[4][5]
College career
Smith started all 18 games in her freshman season with the Boston College Eagles in 2019. She led the team with 8 goals, which included two braces – in a win against Princeton and a loss to Florida State – and was named to the ACC all-freshman team. She went on to be Boston College's leading scorer in three out of her four years on the team, finishing with 26 goals in 72 games.[2] With a fifth year of college eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith transferred to the Texas A&M Aggies in 2023. She scored 3 goals and led the team with 7 assists in 22 games, helping the Aggies to the SEC tournament semifinals.[6]
Club career
FHL and Breiðablik
Smith signed her first professional contract with Icelandic club FHL, playing in the second-tier 1. deild kvenna, in February 2024.[7] She scored 15 goals in 14 games, second in the league only to her teammate Emma Hawkins, as the club won the league title and earned promotion to the top-flight Besta deild kvenna.[8][9] In August 2024, she joined first-tier club Breiðablik on loan until the end of the Besta deild kvenna season.[9] She scored 9 goals in 7 league games, including a 14-minute hat trick against Þór/KA, as she helped Breiðablik win the league title.[10][11] In doing so, she achieved the rare combination of winning Iceland's second-division and first-division league titles in the same year.[8] On September 4, she scored her first continental goal against Minsk in her debut in UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying, before Breiðablik lost to Sporting CP in the next round.[12] She re-signed with Breiðablik for the following season.[13]
Smith scored 12 goals in 24 league games in 2025, helping Breiðablik retain the league title.[12] On August 16, she scored two goals including the extra-time winner in a 3–2 victory over FH to win the Icelandic Women's Football Cup.[14] Later that month, she scored twice against Athlone Town in Champions League qualifying. Breiðablik lost in the next round but earned a place in the inaugural UEFA Women's Europa Cup.[12] On November 19, she scored a goal and forced a stoppage-time own goal against Fortuna Hjørring in the Europa Cup round of sixteen away leg, helping Breiðablik overturn a 3–0 aggregate deficit to advance to the Europa Cup quarterfinals.[15]
Boston Legacy
On December 29, 2025, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team Boston Legacy announced that they had signed Smith to a two-year contract.[16] She made her NWSL debut in the Legacy's first road game, starting in a 3–0 loss to the Houston Dash on March 21, 2026.[17]
