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Lee Clark
	Clark playing for Fulham
Personal information
Full name	Lee Robert Clark
Date of birth	27 October 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth	Wallsend, England
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Birmingham City (manager)
Youth career
1987–1990	Newcastle United
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1997	Newcastle United
1997–1999	Sunderland
1999–2005	Fulham
2005–2006	Newcastle United
Total
International career
1992–1993	England U21
Managerial career
2008–2012	Huddersfield Town
2012–	Birmingham City
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Lee Robert Clark (born 27 October 1972) is an English former footballer and manager of Birmingham City. As a player, Clark had two spells at Newcastle United, and was their reserve team manager and coach after he retired. He also played for Sunderland and Fulham, and made 11 appearances for the England under-21 team. He was manager of Huddersfield Town for three years.

Club career

Newcastle United

Born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, Clark started his career at the club he supported as a boy, Newcastle United coming up through the youth system at the club. In 1993 he was part of the Newcastle side promoted to the Premier League as champions and then helped them finish runners-up two seasons in a row. He made nearly 200 appearances scoring 23 goals for Newcastle in his first spell at the club.

Sunderland

Clark moved to Newcastle's local rivals, First Division club Sunderland, in 1997, and was part of the side promoted to the Premier League in 1999 as champions with a (then) professional league record of 105 points. A year earlier, he had been a key player in the side that reached the First Division play-off final, only to suffer a penalty shoot-out defeat to Charlton Athletic after a 4–4 draw at Wembley.

However, at the 1999 FA Cup Final he was spotted with the Newcastle fans wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "Sad Mackem Bastards". He was immediately dropped from the team, and never played for Sunderland again.^[2]

Fulham

Clark moved to Fulham in 1999. He collected another Division One title medal with in 2001, enabling him to experience Premier League football for the first time since the 1996–97 season. In 2004, he helped Fulham secure what was, at the time, their highest final position - ninth in the top flight. During that season he opened the scoring as Fulham beat Manchester United 3-1 at Old Trafford in October 2003.^[3] Clark left Fulham in 2005 to return to former club Newcastle United, after making 149 league appearances and scoring 20 goals for the West London club.

Return to Newcastle

Clark was allowed to leave Fulham after his contract expired in the summer of 2005 despite being club captain during the 2004–05 season. At the time of his departure, he was Fulham's longest-serving player. He subsequently returned to Newcastle, coaching and playing on a month-by-month contract.

Clark scored one goal for Newcastle in the 2005–06 season, an equaliser in a 2–2 draw with Middlesbrough.^[4] He played his final professional game on 7 May 2006, coming on as a substitute at home to Chelsea. In total he played 265 times for Newcastle, scoring 28 goals.

International career

Clark scored a hat-trick for England schoolboys at Wembley Stadium in 1988.

He represented England at international level playing for the England under-21s making 11 appearances between 1992 to 1993 during his time playing for Newcastle.

Career statistics

^[5] Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1991–92||rowspan="6"|Newcastle United||Second Division||29||5||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||29||5 |- |1992–93||First Division||46||9||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||46||9 |- |1993–94||rowspan="4"|Premier League||29||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||29||2 |- |1994–95||19||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||1 |- |1995–96||28||2||2||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||33||2 |- |1996–97||24||2||3||1||1||0||5||0||33||3 |- |1997–98||rowspan="2"|Sunderland||rowspan="2"|First Division||49||13||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||52||13 |- |1998–99||27||3||2||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||33||3 |- |1999–2000||rowspan="6"|Fulham||rowspan="2"|First Division||42||8||4||0||6||1||colspan="2"|-||52||9 |- |2000–01||45||7||1||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||50||7 |- |2001–02||rowspan="4"|Premier League||9||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0 |- |2002–03||11||2||colspan="2"|-||2||1||2||0||15||3 |- |2003–04||25||2||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||27||2 |- |2004–05||17||1||5||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||1 |- |2005–06||rowspan="1"|Newcastle United||rowspan="1"|Premier League||22||1||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||25||1

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Coaching career

Newcastle United

On 1 June 2006, the newly appointed Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder installed Clark as a first team coach and reserve team manager following Tommy Craig's departure while Clark was still playing for Newcastle. He remained as first team coach and as reserve team manager after retiring in 2007 until Roeder parted company with the club and Clark followed shortly afterwards in November.

Norwich City

In November 2007 Clark left his post at Newcastle to become assistant manager to Roeder at Championship club Norwich City.^[6] Clark remained assistant manager at Norwich until December 2008, when he left to become manager of League One club Huddersfield Town.

Managerial career

Huddersfield Town

After Huddersfield Town had sacked manger Stan Ternent on 4 November 2008, The Terriers were reported to be interested in then Norwich assistant manager Clark. On 12 December 2008, Clark was officially unveiled as the new manager of the League One side, signing a three-and-a-half year contract. Clark replaced Gerry Murphy, who had been caretaker manager for the League One side following the departure of Ternent. The first move made by Clark was to appoint Terry McDermott as his assistant as well as bringing in Derek Fazackerley in as first team coach and Steve Black as performance coach, all of whom had previously worked with Newcastle United.^[7] Clark officially took over on 15 December; his first game in charge of the club was a 2–0 win over Hereford United on 20 December.

In his first season at the club he helped them to a ninth-placed finish in League One. They also only lost two home league games under Clark in the 2008–09 season. In his second season in charge Clark helped Huddersfield to secure a play-off spot and became the first manager to win three Manager of the Month award in a single season since Roberto Martinez in 2007–08.^[8] Huddersfield were defeated by Millwall in the 2009-10 play-off semi-final.

In the 2010–11 season, Clark guided Huddersfield to a third-placed finish in the league, earning them a place in the play-offs after a club-record 25-game unbeaten run in the league. They reached the final after beating Bournemouth 4–2 on penalties, but lost 3–0 to Peterborough United in the Old Trafford final. In July 2011, he agreed a new rolling contract with the club.^[9]

Clark continued breaking records at the beginning of the 2011–12 season, extending the unbeaten run in domestic regular-season league games to a Football League record 43 games.^[10]

Clark was sacked as manager of Huddersfield on 15 February 2012 following a 1–0 home defeat to Sheffield United.^[11] When he was sacked he said "I'm shocked, but when Huddersfield go up this season, I'll be celebrating like any other Huddersfield fan"

Birmingham City

On 26 June 2012, Clark was confirmed as manager of Birmingham City, with Terry McDermott as his assistant.^[12]

Managerial statistics

As of 23 October 2012

Team	Nation	From	To	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win %
Huddersfield Town	England	15 December 2008	15 February 2012	178	87	51	40	048.88
Birmingham City	England	26 June 2012	Present	14	4	4	6	028.57

Honours

As player

Newcastle United

First Division champions: 1992–93
FA Premier League runners-up: 1995–96, 1996–97

Sunderland

First Division champions: 1998–99

Fulham

First Division champions: 2000–01

Manager

Huddersfield Town

League One play-off semi-final 2009-10
League One play-off runners-up 2010-11
43-game unbeaten run in regular season League games, between 2010 and 2011: The Football League record^[10]

References

^ Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946-2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 121. ISBN 1-85291-665-6.
^ Black and white and red When Saturday Comes, February 2002
^ "Fulham stun Man Utd". BBC Sport. 25 October 2003. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
^ "Newcastle 2-2 Middlesbrough". BBC Sport. 2 January 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ Lee Clark Newcastle United FC^{[dead link]}
^ Clark leaves Magpies for Norwich BBC Sport, 2 November 2007
^ "Clark named new Huddersfield boss". BBC Sport. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
^ "Manager of the Month for January 2008". League Managers Association. June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
^ "Lee Clark signs new Town contract". htafc.com. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Npower commemorate unbeaten run". Huddersfield Town F.C. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
^ "Huddersfield Town sack manager Lee Clark". bbc.co.uk. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
^ "Clark confirmed as Blues boss". Birmingham City F.C. 26 June 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.

External links

Lee Clark at Soccerbase
Lee Clark management career statistics at Soccerbase
Lee Clark Stats centre, guardian.co.uk
The Lee Clark Interview BBC Tyne, 15 September 2006

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[1] Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946-2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 121. ISBN 1-85291-665-6.

[2] Black and white and red When Saturday Comes, February 2002

[3] "Fulham stun Man Utd". BBC Sport. 25 October 2003. Retrieved 14 August 2009.

[4] "Newcastle 2-2 Middlesbrough". BBC Sport. 2 January 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2009.

[5] Lee Clark Newcastle United FC^{[dead link]}

[6] Clark leaves Magpies for Norwich BBC Sport, 2 November 2007

[7] "Clark named new Huddersfield boss". BBC Sport. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.

[8] "Manager of the Month for January 2008". League Managers Association. June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

[9] "Lee Clark signs new Town contract". htafc.com. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.

[43games-10] "Npower commemorate unbeaten run". Huddersfield Town F.C. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2012.

[11] "Huddersfield Town sack manager Lee Clark". bbc.co.uk. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.

[12] "Clark confirmed as Blues boss". Birmingham City F.C. 26 June 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.

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-'''Lee Robert Clark''' (born 26 October 1972) is an English former [[association football|footballer]] and manager of [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]]. As a player, Clark had two spells at [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]], and was their reserve team manager and coach after he retired. He also played for [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] and [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]], and made 11 appearances for the [[England national under-21 football team|England under-21 team]]. He was manager of [[Huddersfield Town F.C.|Huddersfield Town]] for three years.
+'''Lee Robert Clark''' (born 27 October 1972) is an English former [[association football|footballer]] and manager of [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]]. As a player, Clark had two spells at [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]], and was their reserve team manager and coach after he retired. He also played for [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] and [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]], and made 11 appearances for the [[England national under-21 football team|England under-21 team]]. He was manager of [[Huddersfield Town F.C.|Huddersfield Town]] for three years.
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