Alan Lee (footballer)

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Alan Lee

Full name	Alan Desmond Lee
Date of birth	August 21, 1978 (1978-08-21) (age 29)
Place of birth	Galway, Republic Of Ireland
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Ipswich Town F.C.
Youth clubs
-1995	Aston Villa
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995–99 1998–99 1999 1999–2000 2000–03 2003–06 2006–	Aston Villa Torquay United (loan) Port Vale (loan) Burnley Rotherham United Cardiff City Ipswich Town	000 0(0) 007 0(2) 011 0(2) 015 0(0) 111 (37) 086 (10) 093 (32)
National team²
2003-Present	Republic of Ireland	010 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of February 9, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Alan Desmond Lee (born August 21, 1978 in Galway) is a professional footballer for Championship club Ipswich Town. He also plays internationally for the Republic of Ireland.

He plays as a striker and is 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) foot tall. He began his career as a trainee with Aston Villa, turning professional in August 1995, although was never quite good enough for the first team at Villa Park. His league debut came after joining Torquay United on loan in November 1998, scoring 3 times in 9 games. In March 1999 he joined Port Vale on loan, leaving Villa in July that year when Burnley signed him for £200,000. He moved to Rotherham United for £150,000 in September 2000, scoring 36 times in 114 games for the Millmoor side. In August 2003 he moved to Cardiff City for a fee of £850,000, just days after impressing Cardiff manager Lennie Lawrence in a goalless draw on the opening day of the season.^[1]

In January 2006, Lee joined Ipswich Town for £100,000.^[2] He scored his second career hat-trick in a 5–0 win against Luton Town on 29 October 2006. He signed a new contract at Ipswich until at least 2009 with the option of a third year.^[3] In January 2008, there was speculation of a move to Burnley for £900,000 but this has since been turned down by the Ipswich Chairman and Alan Lee himself. On 2 February, Lee scored his first goal in over a month to beat Sheffield Wednesday, helping end Ipswich's poor away form of not winning a single game away from home for ten months.^{[citation needed]}He completed his season's tally of 12 goals with the winner in Ipswich's 1-0 win against Hull City on the final day of the 07/08 season.