Marvin Hamilton-Omole (born 8 October 1988) is a professional footballer who plays for Hythe Town. Born in England, he represented the Sri Lanka national team. Born in England to a Nigerian father and a Sri Lankan mother, Hamilton began his career with Gillingham and has subsequently gone on to play for a number of

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clubs in the south of England, as well as spending brief spells playing in Cyprus, Australia and the USA.

Career

Club career

After junior trials with

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, Hamilton also played for Waltham Forest and Ridgeway Rovers before joining Gillingham as a youth player in July 2005. He signed as a professional on a one-year contract on the eve of the 2007–08 season and made his first-team debut as a substitute in an away defeat to

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on 25 August 2007. After a change of manager and a loan spell at Folkestone Invicta, he was released by Gillingham on 31 March 2008 and joined Dover Athletic. Hamilton started the 2008–09 season as a trialist at

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and Lincoln City before signing for Cypriot side

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in January 2010. Hamilton played for Hemel Hempstead Town and then joined

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club Eastbourne Borough on 24 February 2012. Hamilton then had a brief spell playing in Australia, first in the Victoria Premier for Southern Stars (now known as Dingley Stars) before moving in the July 2013 transfer window to Albany Creek in the Brisbane Premier League. After a trial at Chelmsford City, Hamilton joined

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club

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, where he scored the league goal of the month in April 2014. Hamilton returned to The Sports for the 2014–15 season before being released in February 2015 and signing for

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until the end of the season. After a spell playing in the US, Hamilton signed briefly for

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on 6 August 2015 and then

side

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before re-joining Eastbourne Borough for the third time on 30 October. Hamilton then re-signed for

for the start of the 2016–17 season. He re-signed for

for the start of the 2019–20 season but announced he was leaving at the end of the curtailed 2020–21 season, to pursue opportunities in Sri Lanka. In September 2022, Hamilton signed for Hythe Town, but missed the Isthmian League South East Division play-off final defeat against his former club

through injury. He then left Reachfields to sign for

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in the

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Senior Division (step 7), returning to Hythe Town in November 2023.

International career

Hamilton was eligible to represent

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and Sri Lanka. He was first called up to the Sri Lankan national team, for which he qualifies through his mother, on 7 May 2019. This was for the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 & AFC Asian Cup 2023 Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1. However, he could not make it to the Sri Lankan squad at that time due to certain formalities and procedures being uncompleted. He played in a friendly warmup match against

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in 2018. In May 2021, he received a call-up from the

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to play in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against

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and

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. He made his senior international debut on 5 June 2021, in a 3–2 defeat against Lebanon. Then on 4 October, Hamilton scored his first goal against

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in a 3–2 defeat at the

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Coaching career

Hamilton began his coaching journey after completing his UEFA B Licence in 2015. The following year, he joined the

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Academy, where he spent a season working with youth players and developing his coaching methodology. In subsequent years, Hamilton broadened his experience through a placement scheme with

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, where he had a stint at the

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Academy, further sharpening his skills in youth development and elite training environments. In late 2024, Hamilton took his coaching credentials abroad and managed Scottland F.C., a first-division side in

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. During his tenure from October to December 2024, he led the team to an unbeaten record of 12 wins from 12 matches, securing the league championship. As of 2025, Hamilton is currently enrolled on the UEFA A Licence course, part of the Seniors Pro pathway, as he continues to advance his professional coaching qualifications and ambitions.

International goals

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Marvin 1988 births Living people Footballers from the London Borough of Waltham Forest People from Leytonstone Sri Lankan men's footballers Sri Lanka men's international footballers English men's footballers British Asian footballers Sri Lankan expatriate men's footballers Sri Lankan people of Nigerian descent English people of Nigerian descent Sportspeople of Nigerian descent English people of Sri Lankan descent Men's association football defenders Gillingham F.C. players Folkestone Invicta F.C. players Dover Athletic F.C. players APEP FC players Hemel Hempstead Town F.C. players Eastbourne Borough F.C. players Albany Creek Excelsior FC players Whitehawk F.C. players Dartford F.C. players VCD Athletic F.C. players Margate F.C. players Ware F.C. players Haringey Borough F.C. players Burgess Hill Town F.C. players Sittingbourne F.C. players FC Baresi players Hythe Town F.C. players English Football League players Cypriot First Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus National League (English football) players 21st-century English sportsmen