Lee Bell

Lee Bell
Lee Bell in March 2023
Personal information
Full name Lee Bell[1]
Date of birth (1983-01-26) 26 January 1983 (age 41)[1]
Place of birth Alsager, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Crewe Alexandra (manager)
Youth career
1997–2002 Crewe Alexandra
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2007 Crewe Alexandra 53 (3)
2003Shrewsbury Town (loan) 3 (0)
2005Burton Albion (loan) 6 (1)
2007Burton Albion (loan) 12 (0)
2007–2008 Mansfield Town 23 (1)
2008–2010 Macclesfield Town 83 (3)
2010–2012 Crewe Alexandra 75 (1)
2012–2015 Burton Albion 82 (6)
2015Macclesfield Town (loan) 10 (3)
Total 347 (18)
Managerial career
2022– Crewe Alexandra
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lee Bell (born 26 January 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Crewe Alexandra.

He began his career at Crewe Alexandra, also playing for Burton Albion, Mansfield Town and Macclesfield Town, before returning in succession to Crewe, Burton Albion and latterly Macclesfield Town on loan from Burton. Bell retired from playing in the summer of 2015, aged 32, and rejoined Crewe as under-18s coach,[2] later becoming under-18s manager (January 2017), under-23s manager (March 2022), assistant first team manager (April 2022), and then first team manager (November 2022).

  1. ^ a b c Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BellRetirement was invoked but never defined (see the help page).