Liam Sercombe came through the Exeter City academy and made over 260 first-team appearances between 2007 and 2015 before going on to play for Oxford, Bristol Rovers and Cheltenham in a lengthy professional career of more than 650 matches.

Liam, who became a scholar/trainee in 2006, signed his first full contract with the club in June 2007 and made his first-team debut against Altrincham on the opening day of the 2007/08 season. Making seven appearances that season, he played twenty-nine times in all competitions in 2008/09 and another thirty-one in City’s first season back in League One in 2009/10.

By now a vital cog in midfield, the 2010/11 season Liam make 49 competitive appearances followed by thirty-six in all competitions when City were relegated in 2011/12. Often reportedly attracting the interest of other clubs he remained with the Grecians for three seasons in League Two and, continuing to contribute energetic displays and goals from the middle of the park, was always popular with supporters.

Featuring on a final forty-one occasions during 2014/15, Liam eventually departed St James Park in May 2015 after 263 games in all competitions to sign for Oxford United where he played two seasons making almost exactly a hundred league and cup appearances. Moving on to Bristol Rovers he played regularly in his first two seasons, but less so in the third, before sigining for Cheltenham Town in August 2020. With various contract extensions he made his 600th appearance in professional football in December 2022 and continued to feature regularly for the Gloucestershire club through the 2023/24 campaign when, in a season that finished in relegation, he featured in 45 league games and scored 11 times on his way to winning the club's various player of the year awards.

Now aged thirty-four, and rejecting a new contract with Cheltenham for whom he had appeared 185 times, Liam had played in around 675 games in senior football (scoring 91 goals in the process) when he dropped out of the Football League to sign for newly-relegated Forest Green Rovers in May 2024. Joining forces with fellow Exeter City product Jordan Moore-Taylor, he featured on a regular basis as his new club made an immediate bid to return to the Football League. Ultimately starting 31 league games as FGR finished 3rd in the National League, Liam was in the side that lost to Southend United in the play-offs but did not re-appear during the opening months of the 2025/26 season ahead of a short mid-season loan to Weston-super-Mare. 

Back once again with his parent club, Liam's contract was not renewed in the summer of 2026 and he was soon to join Weston-super-Mare on a regular basis.