Portsmouth

Josef Bursik

A goalkeeper who won a World Cup with England's youth side as a teenager and has spent the years since searching for the settled career that early success seemed to promise. Portsmouth is another stop in a career that has moved between several clubs already.
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Among EFL Championship 2026/27 goalkeepers

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CHA
14:00
Sat 12 Sep
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POR
14:00
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Josef Bursik, The Keeper Still Chasing Stability

A World Cup winner with England's youth team, Bursik has bounced between clubs since, still searching for settled games.

Bursik was part of an England youth side that won a World Cup, a result that marked him out early as one of the country's more promising young goalkeepers. He briefly justified that promise as Stoke City's first choice goalkeeper, showing the shot stopping and command of his box that had stood out at youth level. An injury during international duty interrupted that run, and his career since has moved through Belgium and Scotland on loan before reaching Portsmouth.

That pattern of moving on before ever settling is the defining feature of his career, a talented keeper who keeps starting again somewhere new. Portsmouth offer another chance at the sustained run of matches that has mostly eluded him since his Stoke breakthrough. Whether this becomes the club where that early promise finally turns into a settled career is the story still being written.

The Rest Of The Squad

37 players

Goalkeepers

1
Nicolas Schmid
Age 29
3 apps
31
Daniel Bielica
Age 27
2 apps
30
Ben Killip
Age 30
0 apps

Defenders

2
Benjamin Arthur
Age 20
5 apps
22
Zak Swanson
Age 25
5 apps
6
Conor Shaughnessy
Age 30
4 apps 1g
55
Madiodio Dia
Age 22
2 apps
—
Jayden Meghoma
Age 20
1 app
5
Regan Poole
Age 28
1 app
3
Connor Ogilvie
Age 30
0 apps
33
Jacob Farrell
Age 23
0 apps
49
Michael Ani
Age 20
0 apps

Midfielders

10
Adrian Segecic
Age 22
5 apps 1g 1a
38
Ebou Adams
Age 30
5 apps 1g 1a
19
Rocco Shein
Age 23
5 apps
24
Terry Devlin
Age 22
5 apps 1g
7
Marlon Pack
Age 35
4 apps
37
Iyad Mohamed
Age 25
2 apps
23
Josh Murphy
Age 31
2 apps
27
Odin Bailey
Stockport County · Age 26
2 apps
8
John Swift
Age 31
1 app
45
Chinedu Agu
Age 18
0 apps
32
Eoin Kenny
Age 20
0 apps
21
Keshi Anderson
Age 31
0 apps
16
Luke Le Roux
Age 26
0 apps
18
Márk Kosznovszky
Age 24
0 apps

Forwards

11
Abu Kamara
Age 23
5 apps 1a
9
Colby Bishop
Age 29
5 apps
29
Marezi
Age 23
5 apps 2g
25
Ryan Kavuma-McQueen
Chelsea · Age 17
5 apps 1g
28
Luke Brooke-Smith
Age 18
3 apps
34
Harvey Blair
Age 22
1 app
—
Tyrese Shade
Burton Albion · Age 26
1 app 1a
15
Franco Umeh-Chibueze
Age 21
0 apps
48
Nathaniel Chioma
Age 18
0 apps
46
Tayo Singerr
Age 18
0 apps
20
Thomas Waddingham
Age 21
0 apps
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