 Morgan warming up for Leicester City in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Westley Nathan Morgan[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 21 January 1984[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nottingham, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1999 | Notts County[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Dunkirk[5] | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2012 | Nottingham Forest | 352 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | → Kidderminster Harriers (loan) | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2021 | Leicester City | 277 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 634 | (24) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Jamaica | 30 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Westley Nathan Morgan (born 21 January 1984) is a former professional footballer who made over 750 professional appearances as a defender for Nottingham Forest, Leicester City and the Jamaican national team.
Morgan spent the first ten years of his career with his boyhood club, Nottingham Forest, playing 402 matches and scoring 14 goals. He was their longest-serving player when he transferred to Leicester City in January 2012.
Morgan became Leicester's captain later that year, and captained the club for 9 years until his retirement in 2021. He captained the club during its most successful ever period,[6][7] captaining them to the Championship title in 2014, their first Premier League title two years later in 2016 and their first FA Cup win in 2021, in which he made his final ever professional appearance coming on as a substitute in the 2021 FA Cup Final.
Born and raised in England, Morgan chose to represent Jamaica at international level, making his debut for them in 2013 and was part of their teams that competed in two Copa América tournaments and finished runners-up at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was also the first Jamaican player to score in a UEFA Champions League game.
- ^ "Updated squads for 2017/18 Premier League confirmed". Premier League. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
- ^ "Wes Morgan". Leicester City F.C. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Foxes Move For Morgan". LCFC.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ Robertson, Gregor (22 December 2015). "Leicester City captain Wes Morgan's fairytale rise". Sky Sports.
- ^ "Leicester City Captain Wes Morgan Calls Time On Historic Career". LCFC.com. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Leicester confirm title-winning captain Wes Morgan will retire". The Athletic. Retrieved 7 June 2021.