Lee Clark (footballer)
Lee Robert Clark (born 27 October 1972) is an English football manager and former professional player, who was most recently the manager of Al-Merrikh in the Sudan Premier League.
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Clark playing for Fulham in 2005 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lee Robert Clark | ||
| Date of birth | 27 October 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Wallsend, England | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1990 | Newcastle United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1997 | Newcastle United | 195 | (23) |
| 1997–1999 | Sunderland | 74 | (16) |
| 1999–2005 | Fulham | 149 | (20) |
| 2005–2006 | Newcastle United | 22 | (1) |
| Total | 440 | (60) | |
| International career | |||
| 1992–1993 | England U21 | 11 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2008–2012 | Huddersfield Town | ||
| 2012–2014 | Birmingham City | ||
| 2014–2015 | Blackpool | ||
| 2016–2017 | Kilmarnock | ||
| 2017 | Bury | ||
| 2019–2020 | Blyth Spartans | ||
| 2021 | Al-Merrikh | ||
| 2021–2022 | Al-Ittihad | ||
| 2022 | Al-Merrikh | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
As a player, he was a midfielder and played in the Premier League for Newcastle United, Sunderland and Fulham. He won promotion to the top flight with all three clubs he played for, winning out right the Football League First Division title in 1993, 1999 and 2001. He was also part of the Magpies squad under Kevin Keegan that finished runners-up in the top flight in consecutive seasons. He was capped 11 times by the England under-21 team and was called up to the full England squad for the World Cup warm up tournament the 1997 Tournoi de France, but he was only named a substitute and never went on to earn a full international cap.
Following his retirement from playing in 2006, he later returned to Newcastle as reserve team manager, before becoming a first team coach at Norwich City. He later became first team manager at Huddersfield Town and had similar spells in charge of Birmingham City, Blackpool, Kilmarnock, Bury and Blyth Spartans. In 2020 he joined non-league side Newcastle Blue Star as director of football, before moving to Sudan to manage Al-Merrikh.