FORMER Premier League star Steven Caulker has signed for his 17th club aged 33.
The ex-Liverpool and Spurs defender has joined Icelandic top-flight side Stjarnan on a one-and-a-half year deal.
Steven Caulker has been announced by Iceland outfit Stjarnan FC
Caulker scored on his England debut in 2012
Caulker leaves Turkish second-division side Ankara Keciorengucu after joining last summer on a one-year deal, after finding the club on LinkedIn.
The former England international can officially suit up for Stjarnan when the second transfer window opens on July 17.
The Spurs youth product played his first and only international match for England in 2012, before switching allegiances to Sierra Leone through his paternal grandfather.
Reports in Iceland called his move “one of the biggest transfers in the history of Icelandic football“.
Caulker made a name for himself in the Premier League where he racked up 123 appearances for a raft of different outfits.
Stjarnan, who currently sit fourth in the Besta deild league, announced Caulker’s signing with a dramatic slowly revealing Instagram video.
The clip shows a plane landing in Iceland, with a masked player walking through the airport before revealing his face after opening a locker in a changing room covered in smoke.
Before playing in Turkey for a year, Caulker was a player-manager at Spanish fifth-division side Malaga City in 2024.
Caulker came through the ranks at Spurs before making 29 appearances for the first team
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Caulker last played in the UK for Wigan when they were in the Championship in 2023.
His career kicked off in 2009 when he came through the ranks at Tottenham.
He left Spurs in 2013 after a flurry of loan spells and made the permanent move to Cardiff City where he spent one season before moving back to London with QPR and later joining Southampton.
Caulker spent time on loan at Liverpool later in his career and even played under Jurgen Klopp – albeit for three minutes as an emergency striker.
He scored on his England debut in a 4-2 friendly defeat to Sweden in 2012.
Caulker also played for fellow Turkish sides Alanyaspor, Fenerbahce, Gaziantep and Fatih Karagumruk.
Caulker’s career clubs
2009–2013 Tottenham 29 appearances (2 goals)
2009–2010 → Yeovil Town (loan) 46 appearances
2010–2011 → Bristol City (loan) 30 appearances
2011–2012 → Swansea City (loan) 26 appearances
2013–2014 Cardiff City 39 appearances
2014–2017 Queens Park Rangers 54 appearances
2015–2016 → Southampton (loan) 3 appearances
2016 → Liverpool (loan) 4 appearances
2018 Dundee 17 appearances
2019–2021 Alanyaspor 85 appearances
2021–2022 Fenerbahçe 0 appearances
2021–2022 → Gaziantep (loan) 27 appearances
2022 Fatih Karagümrük 7 appearances
2023 Wigan Athletic 9 appearances
2024 Málaga City 5 appearances
2024– Ankara Keçiörengücü 33 appearances
He previously bravely opened up about how his mental health battles with gambling and alcohol affected his football career.
Caulker told the BBC in 2020: “For me, the internal pain that my addictions caused me, I can’t really describe it, to tell you the truth.
“It was a terrible situation and it’s one which I have to take care of on a daily basis.
“I have been in recovery for a long time now but, thankfully, through the 12-step programme I’ve managed to have a long stint of sobriety. I’ve come here and been able to really relax and just sort of find myself again.”
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