WOKING striker Scott Rendell has rejoined Aldershot Town on a one-year contract.

Rendell, 29, scored 49 goals in 83 appearances during his first two seasons with the Cards, but suffered an anterior knee ligament injury in the first game of 2015-16, which kept him out for the entire season.

Rendell was initially a member of the Aldershot youth team and became the club’s youngest ever goal-scorer in August 2003. He later played 13 matches for the Shots in a loan spell from Reading between February and April 2005, at the beginning of a career which has seen him score over 150 goals in just over 400 games.

He has played in the Football League with Peterborough, Torquay, Wycombe and Oxford United, and won promotion to League One with both the Posh and the Chairboys.

Rendell’s 26 goals won three Player of the Year awards with Woking in 2014-15, adding to his 23 scored during 2013-14.

“I’m really pleased that we’ve been able to bring Scott to the club,” said manager Gary Waddock. “He’s a proven scorer – that’s the key, and it’s a big signing for us. He’s fit and well, but we’ll manage him. We’ll put him in when we feel the time is right, but he’s strong and has had a thorough medical.”

Rendell said: “It was a tough year for me, rehab wise, but I’m feeling good and it’s time to look forward now. I had a great couple of years at Woking and loved it there, but this is a new challenge for me. Gary knows how I work and he probably brought the best out of me at Wycombe.”

* Aldershot Town’s Football in the Community Trust won the ‘Best Schools Project’ award at the National League Annual Congress, after a year in which the club reached over 15,000 local children.

The scheme beat 71 other National League clubs in its promotion of curriculum support, exercise and healthy lifestyle choices and will now reinvest the £5000 prize to make the scheme even better in 2016-17.

With keen support from first-team players in assisting the Trust’s three full-time and 16 part-time coaching staff, local schools have benefited from projects including Double Club – which combines literacy and numeracy work with sports coaching – plus the Half-Time Shoot-Out during home games, stadium tours and, of course, football skills for both teachers and pupils.

* Aldershot Town FC are launching their 2016-17 first-team playing shirt this week. The bespoke red-and-blue shirt, manufactured by Adidas, is a classic Shots design to welcome manager Gary Waddock back to the club.