Lee Bowyer
Playing for Birmingham City in October 2010
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lee David Bowyer | ||
| Date of birth | 3 January 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Canning Town, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Senrab | ||
| – | Charlton Athletic | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1996 | Charlton Athletic | 46 | (8) |
| 1996–2003 | Leeds United | 203 | (38) |
| 2003 | West Ham United | 10 | (0) |
| 2003–2006 | Newcastle United | 79 | (6) |
| 2006–2009 | West Ham United | 41 | (4) |
| 2009 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2009–2011 | Birmingham City | 64 | (9) |
| 2011–2012 | Ipswich Town | 29 | (2) |
| Total | 489 | (68) | |
| National team | |||
| 1994–1995 | England U18 | 6 | (0) |
| 1995–2000 | England U21 | 13 | (4) |
| 2002 | England | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Lee David Bowyer (born 3 January 1977) is an English former professional footballer born in Canning Town, London. Bowyer previously played for several English clubs including Leeds United, Charlton Athletic, West Ham United, Newcastle United, Birmingham City and Ipswich Town. He was also capped once by the England national football team.
Bowyer played for youth team Senrab before joining Charlton Athletic as a schoolboy. He turned professional in April 1994. He first drew attention in 1995, when he and teammate Dean Chandler failed a drugs test for cannabis use. Bowyer was dropped from the England under-18 squad and suspended for eight weeks while he took part in a rehabilitation course organised by the Football Association (the FA). He went on to become a first-team regular, making 58 appearances for Charlton and scoring 14 goals.
In 1996, he was signed by Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson for £2.8 million, which was a record for a British teenager. Later the same year, Bowyer was convicted of affray and fined £4,500 following an incident in a McDonald's restaurant in London in which CCTV footage showed Bowyer throwing chairs and racially abusing a staff member of Asian origin.
Initially, Bowyer was kept out of the Leeds first team by Alf-Inge Håland and David Hopkin; he eventually replaced Hopkin in the 1998–99 season, and from then on was a first-team regular. He was a key player in David O'Leary's Leeds side that qualified for the Champions League in 1999–2000, and which reached the semi finals of the UEFA Cup in 2000 and the Champions League in 2001. In the Champions League run he scored crucial goals against A.C. Milan, Barcelona and Anderlecht. He was voted the Leeds player of the year by supporters in both 1998–99 and 2000–01.
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