Steve Macauley

Steve Macauley (born 4 March 1969 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England) is an ex-professional footballer, who played primarily as a defender. He began his career at Manchester City as a trainee. After a brief spell at local Fylde coast side Fleetwood Town, he joined Crewe Alexandra in March 1992 for a fee of £25,000. He went on to spend ten years at the South Cheshire club under manager Dario Gradi.

He was the first team coach at Fleetwood Town.

According to the football website Soccerbase, Macauley played 246 league games for Crewe, plus 16 in the Football League Cup and 20 in the FA Cup, plus 22 other assorted appearances. He is credited with having played an important role in the club's promotion to the First Division of the Nationwide League in 1997, and subsequent successful battles to stay in the division. His partners in defence included Ashley Westwood, later of Sheffield Wednesday, and Dave Walton, later of Derby County. He also played alongside future Premiership players such as Danny Murphy, Neil Lennon, Rob Hulse and Dean Ashton. Although a centre half, he did play a number of games as a forward during a striking injury crisis at the Alex during the mid-90s.

During his spell at Crewe, the club reached the 1992-93 play-off final against York, only to lose on penalties, before being promoted the following season. As mentioned above, they then rose into what is now the Football League Championship following victory at Wembley against Brentford on 25 May 1997.

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