For all his club achievements this Scotland international will always be best remembered for one of the most horrendous misses of all time when playing for his country.Iwelumo found the ball at his feet three yards from goal with the goalkeeper nowhere to be seen... and he put it wide. Scotland drew that game against Norway at Hampden Park 0-0. It was a World Cup qualifier. And Iwelumo's debut.
The striker began his career in his homeland with St Mirren and also spent two years in Denmark with Aarhus Fremad. When he returned to the United Kingdom it was in England with Stoke City.
He struggled to get into the Stoke side at first and was loaned to York City and Cheltenham Town before finally winning regular first team football. But he fell out of favour again in 2003-04, was eventually loaned to Brighton & Hove Albion and then released.
His next port of call would be German side Alemannia Aachen, where he spent just six disappointing months. He was then without a club until the summer of 2005 when Colchester United took a punt on him, and it proved to be a great move.
Iwelumo scored 35 League goals in 87 starts for an unfashionable club. But the Us had only given him a two-year deal and he opted to join Charlton in the summer of 2008 when his deal ran out.
The Scot spent just one season with the Addicks, scoring 10 goals, before Wolverhampton Wanderers snapped him up.
He made his debut for Wolves in a 2-2 draw at Plymouth Argyle and then bagged four goals in his next two matches. He scored 16 goals in his first season, but it was dogged by injury and he was limited to 25 starts.
Iwelumo then suffered the curse of the metatarsal in pre-season ahead of the club's 2009-10 Premier League campaign.
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