Player Details

Name

Jacob Shaffelburg

Pronunciation

Sha-FULL-berg

Height

5' 10"

Weight

165 lbs

Date of Birth

11.26.1999 (25)

Birthplace

Port Williams, NS, Canada

Position

Midfielder

Position Detail

Winger

Preferred Side

Unknown

Footedness

Left

Roster Category

Supplemental Slots 29-30

Player Category

Homegrown
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Career Summary

Jacob Shaffelburg enters his second MLS season with Nashville SC after joining from Toronto FC in 2022. Shaffelburg has made 55 appearances in his MLS Career. During his time at Toronto, he helped lead The Reds to a 2020 Voyagers Cup in the Canadian Championship. In 2021, he was awarded the Best Young Canadian Player award by the Canadian Soccer Association, which recognizes each tournament’s best Canadian U-21 player. At the international level, Shaffelburg made his Canada Soccer Men’s National Team on January 10, 2020, in a friendly against Barbados and has since earned a total of four caps. In his most recent international caps, Shaffelburg appeared in the third round of the 2021-2022 Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers where he helped Canada finish first and qualify for Qatar 2022™, ending a 36-year drought since the first and only time Canada played in a FIFA World Cup™ in 1986.

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Follow him on Instagram @jacobshaff and on Twitter @jacobshaff2.