Michael Bell (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Bell | ||
| Date of birth | 15 November 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1994 | Northampton Town | 153 | (10) |
| 1994–1997 | Wycombe Wanderers | 118 | (5) |
| 1997–2005 | Bristol City | 292 | (34) |
| 2005–2006 | Port Vale | 15 | (2) |
| 2006–2007 | Cheltenham Town | 16 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Team Bath | ||
| 2008–2009 | Weston-super-Mare | 10 | (0) |
| 2011 | Clevedon Town | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 605+ | (51+) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2010–2014 | Clevedon Town | ||
| 2014 | Weston-super-Mare | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Michael Bell (born 15 November 1971) is an English former football defender and manager. In a seventeen-year career as a professional in the Football League he made 599 league appearances with five different clubs.
Starting his career with Northampton Town in 1990, over a four-year period he would make over 150 appearances for the club. He then transferred to Wycombe Wanderers for £55,000 in October 1994, where he would make 118 league appearances in a three-year spell. He then made a £150,000 move to Bristol City in August 1997, and would make 345 appearances in all competitions, in an eight-year association with the club. He then spent a brief spell at Port Vale, before joining Cheltenham Town in January 2006. He then dropped into non-League football with Team Bath and Weston-super-Mare, before being appointed as manager of Clevedon Town in May 2010. He left Clevedon in January 2014, and four months later took charge for a brief spell at Weston-super-Mare.
He won numerous honours during his career, being voted onto the PFA Team of the Year for the Second Division in 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, and 2002–03. He helped Bristol City to promotion out of the Second Division in 1997–98, and played in the finals of the Football League Trophy in 2000 and 2003. He also helped Cheltenham Town to win the League Two play-off final in 2006.
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