Nicky Hogarth

Nottingham Forest On 13 July 2021, Hogarth joined English club Nottingham Forest on a free transfer and was assigned to the club's development squad.

He made his debut for Nottingham Forest's development squad in a 5–2 loss against Aston Villa's development squad on 13 August 2021. Hogarth became a first choice goalkeeper for the club's development squad. However, he received a red card "for handling outside the penalty area", in a 3–1 loss against Newcastle United's development squad. Despite this, however, Hogarth made twelve appearances for Nottingham Forest's development squad.

At the end of the 2022–23 season, Hogarth was released by the club. Reflecting on his time at Nottingham Forest, he said: "It was really good down in England. There was a lot of adjusting at first, living alone away from home. The training down there is different. There's kind of different focuses in terms of technically working within the goal, it's a lot of match realistic stuff every day. And the games are of a really good standard. You are playing against the up and coming from the Premiership and Championship from all across England, some really good players. People can sometimes knock the academy game and say it's not real football but definitely down south the standard is a different level." He made his debut for the club, starting the game, in a 3–1 win against Peterhead in the opening game of the season. Since joining Falkirk, Hogarth became a first choice goalkeeper throughout his loan spell at the club. On 4 January 2023, he returned to his parent club after manager John McGlynn hinted that Hogarth would not stay at Falkirk beyond January.

On 12 June 2023, Hogarth re-joined Falkirk on a free transfer. However in the 2023–24 season, he competed with Sam Long over the first choice goalkeeper role and the rotation saw both players get chances to start games with no established first choice goalkeeper for most of the season. Hogarth's first game after signing for the club on a permanent basis came on 5 September 2023 against Ayr United in the third round of the Scottish Challenge Cup and he kept a clean sheet, in a 1–0 win. By the end of the first half of the season, both keepers' contributions meant Falkirk had only conceded eleven goals so far in the league. By 30 March 2024, the club were confirmed as Scottish League One's champion. On 19 April 2024, he was one of ten Falkirk players to be included in the PFA Scotland Scottish League One Team of the Year.

International career In March 2022, Hogarth was called up to the Scotland U21 for the first time and appeared as an unused substitute.

Personal life Hogarth is the son of goalkeeper Myles Hogarth, who made over 100 appearances for Falkirk between 1999 and 2002, and the brother of goalkeeper Jay Hogarth. As a result. the pair became the third goalkeeping siblings who have faced each other in SPFL matches. Coincidentally, both brothers were wearing the 31 shirt number in the match.

Career statistics

Honours Falkirk Scottish League One: 2023–24

Individual PFA Scotland Team of the Year: 2023–24 Scottish League One