Ben Hamer, a goalkeeper from Chard in Somerset, played nineteen league and cup games for City when on loan from Reading in 2011. He went on to play over a hundred times for Charlton Athletic before playing for clubs such as Leicester, Huddersfield, Derby, Swansea and Watford often in the role of back-up ‘keeper.

Playing in school and youth football in South Somerset, Ben joined Reading’s academy at the age of fifteen and became a scholar/trainee in 2004. Turning professional in 2005, he subsequently clocked-up 120 league appearances when on loan to Crawley and Brentford (four separate spells).

Having helped the West London club to promotion in 2009, Ben joined Exeter City (then on the way to an 8th-placed finish in League One) on another loan arrangemt in January 2011 having recently faced the Grecians when playing for Brentford. Immediately making his debut at St James’ Park in the win against Walsall, and soon appearing against Brentford in a Football League Trophy tie, he went on to play eighteen league games before Artur Krysiak returned towards the end of the season. Ben's final five games for City all ended in victory with the last of these coming against Oldham Athletic on Good Friday 2011.      

Eventually playing just five cup games for Reading, Ben moved to Charlton Athletic in July 2011 where he won a  League One championship medal in his first term and made a total of 114 league appearances in three seasons before agreeing terms with Leicester City in May 2014. Signed as cover for Kasper Schmeichel, and in competition with Mark Schwarzer, he played in eight Premier League games in 2014/15 but did not appear in Leicester’s championship season. Instead Ben was to spend his eventual four years at Leicester either playing for the under-23s, having short loans at Nottingham Forest and Bristol City or sitting out games on the bench (as in 2017/18 when he made four Premier League appearances).

On leaving the Foxes in 2018, Ben had made just twenty first-team appearances during his time at the club but remained in the Premier League when signing for Huddersfield Town for whom he played seven times in the top-flight before the club’s relegation. Spending the 2019/20 season in the Championship on loan at Derby, and after returning to Huddersfield’s first-team, he left Yorkshire in January 2021 for an eighteen-month stay at Swansea City and a further move to Watford ahead of the 2022/23 season. Once more primarily an understudy 'keeper, Ben made twenty league starts for his new club prior to leaving Vicarage Road in May 2024 by which time he had made just over 390 first-team appearances for his various clubs (with little over a hundred coming in the league during the ten years between joining Leicester and leaving Watford).

Now aged thirty-six - and thirteen years after his time at St James' Park - Ben signed for Sheffield Wednesday in June 2024.