Lewis Buxton

Lewis Buxton
Personal information
Full nameLewis Edward Buxton[1]
Date of birth10 December 1983[2]
Place of birthNewport, Isle of Wight, England
Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Playing positionDefender
Club information
Current team
Sheffield Wednesday
Number2
Youth career
?–2001Portsmouth
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2001–2004Portsmouth30(0)
2002→ Exeter City (loan)4(0)
2003→ Bournemouth (loan)17(0)
2003–2004→ Bournemouth (loan)26(0)
2004–2009Stoke City53(1)
2008–2009→ Sheffield Wednesday (loan)15(0)
2009–Sheffield Wednesday176(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).

Lewis Edward Buxton (born 10 December 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.[3] He scored his first senior goal in Stoke's 3–1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 2005.[4]

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.[5] He made his comeback as a substitute for Stephen Wright in the 33rd minute of Stoke's 2–1 win over Charlton Athletic on 18 August 2007.[6] 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.[7] 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 1⁄2-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.

In 2012–13, Buxton was voted player of the year by the Sheffield Wednesday supporters. This was following a consistency across over 40 games in a regularly changed Wednesday defensive unit.

Career statistics

As of 4 May 2013[8]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[A] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Portsmouth 2001–02 First Division 2900000–290
2002–03 First Division 100000–10
2003–04 Premier League 000000–00
Total 300000000300
Exeter City (loan) 2002–03 Third Division 4000002060
Total 4000002060
Bournemouth (loan) 2002–03 Third Division 170100000180
2003–04 Second Division 260200000280
Total 430300000460
Stoke City 2004–05 Championship 1601000–170
2005–06 Championship 3213010–361
2006–07 Championship 100000–10
2007–08 Championship 400000–40
2008–09 Premier League 000020–20
Total 531403000601
Sheffield Wednesday 2008–09 Championship 3211000–331
2009–10 Championship 2801000–290
2010–11 League One 301000020321
2011–12 League One 371200000391
2012–13 Championship 400202000440
2013–14 Championship 203000000203
Total 18736020201973
Career Total 317713050203377
A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League play-offs and Football League Trophy.

Honours

Sheffield Wednesday

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/07/2011 and 31/07/2011" (PDF). The Football Association. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0.
  3. ↑ "Stoke swoop for young Pompey duo". BBC Sport. 24 December 2004. Retrieved 11 July 2007.
  4. ↑ "Stoke 1–3 Wolves". BBC Sport. 24 September 2005.
  5. ↑ "Buxton back from injury nightmare". BBC Sport. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2007.
  6. ↑ "Stoke 2–1 Charlton". BBC Sport. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
  7. ↑ "Owls land Stoke defender on loan". BBC Sport. 17 October 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  8. ↑ "Lewis Buxton". Soccerbase. Retrieved 5 May 2013.

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