Where are Wolves’ League One promotion trio now? Sako, Dicko and Leigh Griffiths | OneFootball

Fourteen years after Wolves dropped out of the Premier League, this revisits the trio who powered their League One title return and where they ended up.

They finished bottom in 2012, then fell to League One a year later. According to ExpressAndStar.com, they won the third tier at the first attempt, led by Bakary Sako, Nouha Dicko and Leigh Griffiths.

Sako arrived from Saint-Étienne for £2.2m and scored nine league goals before relegation. He hit 12 the next season as promotion was sealed, then 15 more before leaving out of contract for Crystal Palace. After West Brom, a Palace return, spells in Cyprus and Greece, and a Saint-Étienne comeback, he joined FC 93 then LB Châteauroux last year, and is 29th on Wolves’ all-time list with 38 goals at 37.

Dicko first arrived on loan in the Championship relegation season, then signed permanently for £300,000 and struck 13 league goals as Wolves went up. Injuries sidelined him for over 12 months and his output dwindled, he left for Hull City in 2017 before moves to Türkiye, Greece and Paris FC. Now 33, he is playing in Saudi Arabia after joining Pro League side Al Bataeh in February, and sits 32nd on the club’s all-time list with 35.

Griffiths, a £150,000 signing in 2011, barely featured across two Premier League seasons and one in the Championship, instead scoring 33 in 61 on loan at Hibernian. Wolves extended his deal in 2013 and he netted 12 in the promotion campaign, then moved to Celtic in January. He hit 123 in 261 for Celtic, later played for Falkirk, moved to Mandurah City in 2022 and to Stirling Macedonia in 2025 in a player-coach role, and told the Scottish Sun last month he had not ruled out a return to Scotland.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com