Olly Lee

Olly Lee

Lee with Birmingham City in 2013 pre-season
Personal information
Full name Oliver Robert Lee[1]
Date of birth (1991-07-11) 11 July 1991[1]
Place of birth Hornchurch, England
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)[2]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Luton Town
Number 8
Youth career
0000–2009 West Ham United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 West Ham United 0 (0)
2011 → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) 5 (0)
2011 → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) 16 (3)
2012 → Gillingham (loan)[3] 8 (0)
2012–2013 Barnet 11 (0)
2013 → Birmingham City (loan) 0 (0)
2013–2015 Birmingham City 16 (1)
2015 → Plymouth Argyle (loan) 15 (2)
2015– Luton Town 69 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:11, 12 August 2017 (UTC).

Oliver Robert Lee (born 11 July 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League Two club Luton Town.

Lee started his career as a youth player with West Ham United, with whom he turned professional in 2009. He made his debut in the Football League during the first of two loan spells at Dagenham & Redbridge in 2011, and also played on loan to League Two club Gillingham in 2012. He never made a senior appearance for West Ham, and moved on to Barnet in July 2012. After nine months and thirteen appearances, he signed for Championship club Birmingham City on loan. Despite not having played first-team football for Birmingham, the loan was converted to a permanent transfer in May 2013. He played 20 matches in 2013–14 but none the following season, and after a spell on loan at League Two Plymouth Argyle in 2015, he was released. In August 2015, Lee signed for League Two club Luton Town on a short-term contract, which was later extended until the end of 2016–17.

Career

Early career

Lee began his football career as a youth team player with West Ham United, for whom he signed professionally in 2009.[4] He captained the under-18 team, played reserve team football, and was an unused substitute for a League Cup match with West Ham before signing on loan for League One club Dagenham & Redbridge in March 2011.[4] He made his debut in their 2–1 away defeat to Exeter City on 2 April.[5] His loan was extended until the end of the season,[6] during which time he played in five league matches, all defeats, as the club failed to avoid relegation to League Two.[7]

In August 2011, Lee returned to Dagenham on a one-month loan to cover for injuries.[8] The loan was later extended for a further two months.[7] He made sixteen appearances in League Two and one in the Football League Trophy, and scored three goals, all in the league.[9] His first senior goal, in the 73rd minute of a 2–1 defeat at home to Morecambe on 17 September, was a 25-yard (23 m) free kick into the top corner of the net, which manager John Still described as "a bit of a fluke".[10]

After a two-week trial in February 2012, Lee joined League Two club Gillingham on loan for a month.[11] He made his debut on 21 February in a goalless draw at home to Rotherham United,[12] and played eight matches in all during his loan spell, which was extended for a second month.[3]

West Ham released Lee when his contract expired at the end of 2011–12.[13]

Barnet

Mark Robson signed Lee for League Two club Barnet on 3 July 2012.[14] He played regularly at the start of the season, but increasingly infrequently after the arrival of Edgar Davids as joint head coach, and not at all after Robson left the club.[15][16]

Birmingham City

Lee joined up with Championship club Birmingham City on trial in February 2013,[17] and signed on loan on 21 March.[18] He made no first-team appearances during his loan spell, but he was an unused substitute on the final day of the season, and captained the under-21 development team.[19] Lee signed a permanent one-year contract in May with the option of a further year, and no transfer fee was involved.[20]

He took part in pre-season friendlies with the first-team, scoring against Alfreton Town,[19] and made his competitive debut as a late substitute in the League Cup on 6 August, just seconds before Plymouth Argyle's equaliser took the match into extra time.[21] With Tom Adeyemi unavailable and Callum Reilly unfit to start, both because of illness, Lee made his first appearance in the Championship at Leeds United on 20 October and played the full 90 minutes as Birmingham lost 4–0.[22] He and Peter Løvenkrands entered the League Cup fourth-round match against Stoke City as 79th-minute substitutes with Birmingham 3–1 down. Lee's 85th-minute free kick led to Løvenkrands pulling a goal back, and after the same player's equaliser took the match into extra time, Lee himself scored his first competitive goal for Birmingham, from outside the penalty area in the 118th minute to make the score 4–4, and converted his penalty in the shootout, which Birmingham lost.[23] He scored his first league goal for Birmingham, with a volleyed finish after Nikola Žigić headed the ball down, on 15 February 2014 in a 2–1 defeat at home to Huddersfield Town,[24] and finished the season with 20 appearances, of which 16 were in Championship matches.[25]

Having failed to set foot on the field for the first-team in 2014–15, Lee joined League Two club Plymouth Argyle in January 2015 on a month's loan.[26][27] He went straight into the starting eleven, and came close to scoring an equaliser from a free kick as Plymouth lost 1–0 at home to Luton Town.[28] He played seven matches during the month, scored once, a stoppage-time header with Argyle already 3–1 down at Hartlepool United, and was sent off in the last of the seven for a foul on Exeter City's Tom Nichols. Despite the consequent three-match suspension, Lee's loan was extended to the end of the season.[29] He made a further eight appearances for Argyle, but was forced to miss the end of the regular season, when Argyle qualified for the play-offs, because of a groin injury.[30]

Birmingham confirmed he would be released when his contract expired at the end of the season.[31]

Luton Town

Lee signed for League Two club Luton Town on a short-term contract on 21 August 2015 which included performance-based options to lengthen his stay.[32] He signed an extended contract until June 2017 on 22 September 2015.[33]

Personal life

Lee was born in Hornchurch, London,[34] the son of former Newcastle and England midfielder Rob Lee.[4] His younger brother, Elliot, also became a professional footballer.[35] Lee attended Brentwood School in Brentwood, Essex, and played for the Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) under-16 representative team.[36]

Career statistics

Lee playing for Barnet in 2012
As of match played 12 August 2017
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
West Ham United 2009–10[37] Premier League 000000—00
2010–11[38] Premier League 000000—00
2011–12[9] Championship 0000000000
Total 0000000000
Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) 2010–11[38] League One 50———50
2011–12[9] League Two 153—001[lower-alpha 1]0163
Total 203—0010213
Gillingham (loan) 2011–12[9][12] League Two 80———80
Barnet 2012–13[15] League Two 110101000130
Birmingham City (loan) 2012–13[15] Championship 00———00
Birmingham City 2013–14[25] Championship 1612021—202
2014–15[26] Championship 000000—00
Total 1612021—202
Plymouth Argyle (loan) 2014–15[26] League Two 152———152
Luton Town 2015–16[39] League Two 34320102[lower-alpha 1]0393
2016–17[40] League Two 33120204[lower-alpha 2]0411
2017–18[41] League Two 2100100031
Total 695404060835
Career total 1391170717016012
  1. 1 2 Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy
  2. ↑ Two appearances in EFL Trophy, two in League Two play-offs

References

  1. 1 2 "Olly Lee". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Olly Lee". ESPN FC. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Lee makes Hammers return". Sky Sports. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Daggers take Lee on loan". Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. 25 March 2011. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Lee makes league bow". West Ham United F.C. 2 April 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lancaster and Lee extend Dagenham loan deals". BBC Sport. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  7. 1 2 "Dagenham & Redbridge extend Oliver Lee's loan deal". BBC Sport. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  8. ↑ "Lee makes Daggers return". Sky Sports. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Games played by Olly Lee in 2011/2012". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  10. ↑ Power, Lee (18 September 2011). "Dagenham & Redbridge beaten after scaring leaders Morecambe". Romford Recorder. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "West Ham midfielder Lee joins Gills on loan". Kent News. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  12. 1 2 "Gillingham 0–0 Rotherham United". BBC Sport. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  13. ↑ "Six players depart West Ham". Sky Sports. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  14. ↑ "Barnet sign midfielder Oliver Lee on a free transfer". BBC Sport. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  15. 1 2 3 "Games played by Olly Lee in 2012/2013". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  16. ↑ "Edgar Davids joins Barnet as joint-head coach". BBC Sport. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
    "Edgar Davids in charge at Barnet after Mark Robson departs". BBC Sport. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  17. ↑ Tattum, Colin (19 February 2013). "Teenager called up to Blues squad to face Owls". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  18. ↑ "Lee joins Birmingham on loan". Barnet F.C. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  19. 1 2 Tattum, Colin (8 July 2013). "Olly Lee targets big break with Blues". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  20. ↑ "Birmingham secure deal to bring in Barnet youngster Olly Lee". Sky Sports. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  21. ↑ Tattum, Colin (7 August 2013). "Blues 3 Plymouth 2". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  22. ↑ Tattum, Colin (21 October 2013). "Lee Clark: Performance was not acceptable". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  23. ↑ Culley, Jon (29 October 2013). "Birmingham City 4 Stoke City 4". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
    "Birmingham City 4–4 Stoke City (2–4 pens)". BBC Sport. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  24. ↑ "Birmingham City 1–2 Huddersfield Town". BBC Sport. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  25. 1 2 "Games played by Olly Lee in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  26. 1 2 3 "Games played by Olly Lee in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  27. ↑ "Olly Lee in". Plymouth Argyle F.C. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  28. ↑ "Plymouth Argyle 0–1 Luton Town". BBC Sport. 17 January 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  29. ↑ "Hartlepool Utd 3–2 Plymouth Argyle". BBC Sport. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
    Errington, Chris (26 February 2015). "Plymouth Argyle extend loan deal for Olly Lee until end of season". Western Morning News. Plymouth. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  30. ↑ Errington, Chris (23 April 2015). "Olly Lee not expected to finish loan spell at Argyle because of injury". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
    "Shrewsbury Town 0–2 Plymouth Argyle". BBC Sport. 2 May 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  31. ↑ Tattum, Colin (5 May 2015). "Blues announce squad departures". Birmingham City F.C. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  32. ↑ "Olly Lee: Luton Town sign ex-Birmingham City midfielder". BBC Sport. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  33. ↑ "Olly Lee signs new Luton contract". Luton Town F.C. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  34. ↑ Rollin, Glenda & Rollin, Jack, eds. (2012). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2012–2013 (43rd ed.). London: Headline. p. 551. ISBN 978-0-7553-6356-8.
  35. ↑ "Elliot Lee". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  36. ↑ "Current professional players". Independent Schools Football Association. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  37. ↑ "Games played by Olly Lee in 2009/2010". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  38. 1 2 "Games played by Olly Lee in 2010/2011". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  39. ↑ "Games played by Olly Lee in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  40. ↑ "Games played by Olly Lee in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  41. ↑ "Games played by Olly Lee in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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