Matty Cash

Nottingham Forest

Cash signed with Nottingham Forest in October 2014, after spending 16-months with the FAB Football Academy based at Bisham Abbey. Cash had joined FAB after Wycombe Wanderers released him, due to financial problems forcing their youth teams to be disbanded, aged fourteen. He experienced his first games in professional football on loan at League Two club Dagenham & Redbridge, having joined them on 4 March 2016 on a one-month loan deal. He scored his first goal for the Daggers in a 3–1 defeat to Hartlepool United on 12 March 2016. On 5 August 2016, Cash signed a three-year deal with Forest to keep him at the club until 2019. He made his first team debut a day later, starting in a 4–3 win over Burton Albion. Cash's early season form earned him praise, with former Forest defender Kenny Burns claiming that the midfielder's performances were putting those of some of the more experienced Forest players "to shame". However, on only his fifth appearance for Forest, Cash sustained a fracture to his tibia at the beginning of a 2–2 draw away to Aston Villa on 11 September 2016 which was expected to keep him out for three months. Cash made his return from injury on 25 November as a 79th-minute substitute in a 5–2 defeat of Barnsley at Oakwell. Three days later Cash was linked with a £5 million transfer to Premier League side Chelsea, although Forest owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi subsequently took to social media to deny that the midfielder would be sold in the January…

Cash is of Polish descent through his mother, born in the UK from Polish parents. In September 2021, Cash applied for a Polish passport. His application for confirmation of possession of Polish citizenship was signed on 26 October 2021 at the Masovian Voivodeship government building in Warsaw. On 1 November, Cash received his first call-up to the Poland national football team for their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Andorra and Hungary. The 24-year-old made his first appearance in a 4–1 away victory against Andorra on 12 November. On 11 June 2022, Cash scored his first international goal in a 2–2 away UEFA Nations League draw against the Netherlands.

Club

As of match played 5 September 2026

International

As of match played 31 March 2026

As of match played 7 September 2025 Poland score listed first, score column indicates score after each Cash goal.

Cash is the son of former professional footballer Stuart Cash. His brother Adam coaches football at school-level. He has a sister, Hannah, who works as a reporter in the United States for CBS Sports. She interviewed her brother after the Aston Villa match against Paris Saint-Germain during the Champions League quarter-final first leg. His maternal grandfather was Ryszard Tomaszewski, a Polish refugee from Soviet captivity in World War II, and his grandmother was Janina, born in Brańsk in Poland and later emigrated to Britain. Cash grew up in Iver, Buckinghamshire, working in a branch of the department store Daniel prior to joining the Nottingham Forest academy. He attended St Joseph's Catholic High School, Slough, and has donated a shirt to the school as well as presenting end-of-year awards to students. He enjoys playing snooker and has appeared on Stephen Hendry's Cue Tips YouTube channel.