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Lewis Buxton
Personal information
Full name Lewis Edward Buxton[1]
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Sheffield Wednesday
Number 2
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2004 Portsmouth 30 (0)
2002 → Exeter City (loan) 4 (0)
2003 → Bournemouth (loan) 17 (0)
2003–2004 → Bournemouth (loan) 26 (0)
2004–2009 Stoke City 53 (1)
2008–2009 → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 15 (0)
2009– Sheffield Wednesday 124 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:19, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Lewis Edward Buxton (born December 10 1983) is an English footballer. He currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday after signing on a permanent deal from Stoke City. Buxton is a defender; he plays predominantly as a right-back or centre-half, although he also featured as a left-back during his time at Stoke.

Career

Portsmouth

A promising young defender, after working his way up through the Portsmouth youth ranks, Buxton made his first team debut at the beginning of the 2001/02 season, aged 17, in a 1–0 win at Stockport County. He was soon a regular in Graham Rix's squad.

However, following Harry Redknapp's appointment as manager at the club, and the subsequent influx of new players, Buxton found games harder to come by. He was loaned out to Exeter City for October 2002, but upon his return to Fratton Park still found the competition too great. In January he was loaned to A.F.C. Bournemouth for the remainder of the season. He played 18 games whilst at Bournemouth, and helped them achieve promotion.

He returned to Portsmouth for the 2003/04 season, but by October he was again not in the first team picture, and so returned to Bournemouth for the season, this time playing 28 games for the Cherries. It was a similar story during the 2004/05 season when Buxton failed to break into the team on a regular basis.

Stoke City

After turning down several loan offers he decided to call time on his Portsmouth career and transferred to Football League Championship club Stoke City in January 2005.[2] Buxton has made over 50 appearances for The Potters to date, during his two seasons at the Championship side. He scored his first senior goal in Stoke's 3–1 defeat to Wolves in September 2005.[3]

He was sidelined for the first 2 months of the season due to a back injury, but he made his first start of the season in Stoke City's 1–0 win at Ipswich Town as a centre-half. However, he required an operation on his back, which kept him out for the remainder of the 2006–07 season. He since recovered and was ready for pre-season training, prior to the start of the 2007–08 season.[4] He made his comeback as a substitute for Stephen Wright in the 33rd minute of Stoke's 2–1 win over Charlton Athletic F.C. on 18 August 2007.[5] Buxton only appeared fleetingly in the 2007–08 season, however he impressed when called upon putting in a man of the match performance against Queens Park Rangers.

Sheffield Wednesday

On 17 October 2008 Buxton moved to Sheffield Wednesday on an initial one month loan deal.[6] This was made a full deal on 26/01/09 after Buxton expressed his desire to leave Stoke and move to Wednesday. He signed a 2 and a half year contract. On 31 January 2009, Buxton scored his first goal for Wednesday against Birmingham City.He has played in many different positions at Hillsborough. These are Right Back, Left Back, Centre Back, Right Wing and Centre Midfield. He achieved promotion to the Championship with Wednesday in May 2012.

Career statistics

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[A] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Portsmouth 2001–02 29 0 0 0 0 0 – 29 0
2002–03 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 1 0
2003–04 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
Total 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0
Exeter City (loan) 2002–03 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 0
Total 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 0
Bournemouth (loan) 2002–03 17 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
2003–04 26 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 28 0
Total 43 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 46 0
Stoke City 2004–05 16 0 1 0 0 0 – 17 0
2005–06 32 1 3 0 1 0 – 36 1
2006–07 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 1 0
2007–08 4 0 0 0 0 0 – 4 0
2008–09 0 0 0 0 2 0 – 2 0
Total 53 1 4 0 3 0 0 0 60 1
Sheffield Wednesday 2008–09 32 1 1 0 0 0 – 33 1
2009–10 28 0 1 0 0 0 – 29 0
2010–11 30 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 32 1
2011–12 19 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 21 1
Total 109 3 4 0 0 0 2 0 115 3
Career Total 239 4 11 0 3 0 2 0 255 4

Honours

Sheffield Wednesday

Footnotes

A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League play-offs and Football League Trophy.

References

  1. ^ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/07/2011 and 31/07/2011" (PDF). The Football Association. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
  2. ^ "Stoke swoop for young Pompey duo". BBC Sport. 2004-12-24. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  3. ^ "Stoke 1–3 Wolves". BBC Sport. 24 September 2005.
  4. ^ "Buxton back from injury nightmare". BBC Sport. 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  5. ^ "Stoke 2–1 Charlton". BBC Sport. 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
  6. ^ "Owls land Stoke defender on loan". BBC Sport. 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2008-10-17.

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