Thomas Keith Robert Beere (born 27 January 1995) is an English

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who plays as a

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for Cray Valley Paper Mills. Beere is a member of the coaching team at Ballers Football Academy in

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, a renowned football development programme established to nurture young football talent.

Career

Beere joined the AFC Wimbledon academy after a short spell at Millwall, having left Fisher Athletic when he was 15. He appeared once in the 2012–13 season, as an unused substitute in the away match against

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on 19 March 2013. During the 2013–14 season, he was twice more named on the bench for the games against

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at home and

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away. He signed a new professional contract in May 2014, and just days later scored the winning goal in the 2014

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final, a 2–1 win over Met Police. After twice more featuring as an unused substitute at the beginning of the 2014–15 season, he made his first team debut in the

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victory over

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, scoring in the penalty shoot-out after a 2–2 draw. Four days later on 6 September 2014, he made his

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debut in the 4–4 draw away to

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, coming on as a substitute in the seventy-ninth minute. Following his breakthrough season in 2014–15 at Wimbledon in which he made 20 first-team appearances, he found first-team opportunities hard to come by following injury, and he joined

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of the

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on 24 November 2015 on an initial one-month loan deal. Beere scored his first league goal, a game-winner in added time, during the home leg of the first round of the 2016 League Two Promotion Playoff against

. Called on as a late substitute, Beere had only just returned from loan at non-league Hampton and Richmond. He was not named on the bench and would not have been selected if Connor Smith was match ready. In January 2024, Beere joined

Cray Wanderers Cray Wanderers Football Club is an English semi-professional association football, football club based in Chislehurst, London. Based on later reports, the club has a claim to have been established some time in 1860 in the twin villages of St ...

following his release from Carshalton Athletic. In October 2024, he joined Cray Valley Paper Mills having started the season with

Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

Career statistics

References

External links

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AFC Wimbledon profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beere, Tom Living people 1995 births English men's footballers Footballers from the London Borough of Southwark People from Southwark Men's association football midfielders English Football League players National League (English football) players Isthmian League players AFC Wimbledon players Bishop's Stortford F.C. players Gateshead F.C. players Hampton & Richmond Borough F.C. players Tonbridge Angels F.C. players Leatherhead F.C. players Greenwich Borough F.C. players Kingstonian F.C. players Carshalton Athletic F.C. players Cray Wanderers F.C. players Horsham F.C. players Cray Valley Paper Mills F.C. players 21st-century English sportsmen