18/06/2026
✅✍️ DONE DEAL: Striker Shaquille Gwengwe has become the latest ACHIEVE client to make the transition from part-time to full-time football as the prolific striker has joined EFL outfit Newport County AFC.
Gwengwe scored 47 goals during an incredible season for Poole Town as The Dolphins narrowly missed out on promotion, losing in the play-offs to Gloucester City.
At the club’s end of season presentation evening, Gwengwe won The Lucy Drake Trophy (Supporters’ Club Player of the Season); The Martin Cooper Trophy (Fans’ Player of the Season); The Bob Terrell Trophy (Managers’ Player of the Season); The Tom Rogers Trophy (Top Goal Scorer); The Players’ Player of the Season.
Gwengwe, 25, has previously played for Worthing, Blackfield & Langley and Andover Town and has risen through the non-league pyramid to become the top scorer in the Southern League Premier Division South last season.
During the 2021-22 campaign, he became a fans’ favourite at AFC Totton, bagging 15 goals in 29 outings in all competitions and this form alerted Dorchester Town, who promptly signed him and he ended his first campaign with the club as the top goal scorer with 13 goals.
The following season, he netted another 17 goals and at the end of the campaign, he turned down offers from several clubs to stay for a third season, the 2024-25 campaign with The Magpies.
He scored ten goals last season before making the move to Poole Town in the summer of 2025.
As well as winning five awards for Poole Town, Gwengwe was also awarded The National Game Awards Golden Boot at a special awards event held at AFC Wimbledon’s Plough Lane stadium.
The National Game Awards is a special celebration of non-league game, held at the end of each season and organised by The Non-League Paper.
Congratulations on your move into the Football League, Shaquille, from everyone at ACHIEVE – we are excited to watch you in this exciting new chapter in your career.
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