Lee Jones (footballer, born 1973)

Last updated
Lee Jones
Personal information
Full name Philip Lee Jones [1]
Date of birth (1973-05-29) 29 May 1973 (age 51) [1]
Place of birth Wrexham, Wales [1]
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [2]
Position(s) Forward [1]
Team information
Current team
 Wealdstone (assistant manager)
Youth career
-1990 Lex XI [3]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–1992 Wrexham 39 (10)
1992–1997 Liverpool 3 (0)
1993 → Crewe Alexandra (loan) 8 (1)
1996 → Wrexham (loan) 20 (8)
1997 → Wrexham (loan) 6 (0)
1997 → Tranmere Rovers (loan) 8 (5)
1997–2000 Tranmere Rovers 77 (11)
2000–2002 Barnsley 40 (5)
2002–2004 Wrexham 49 (14)
2004–2006 Caernarfon Town 63 (24)
2012–2013 Prestatyn Town 35 (9)
International career‡
1992–1996 Wales Under-21 14 (?)
Wales B 1 (?)
1997 Wales 2 (0)
Managerial career
2006 Caernarfon Town (Joint Caretaker)
2011–2012 Prestatyn Town
2015 Wrexham (Joint Caretaker)
2016–2017 Tranmere Rovers Academy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:00, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:00, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Philip Lee Jones (born 29 May 1973 [4] ) is a Welsh football coach and former player who played as a forward.

Contents

Career

Born in Wrexham, he began his career with his hometown club. In March 1992, he moved to Liverpool, aged 18. However, he only managed four appearances in five years, in part due to suffering two broken legs. He was loaned out to Crewe Alexandra, twice back to Wrexham, and finally to Tranmere Rovers where he scored five goals in eight games. Tranmere signed Jones for £100,000 in June 1997. [2] He spent three years with Tranmere before being released in May 2000. [5] In July, he moved to First Division club Barnsley on a free transfer, [6] but in 2002 he returned to Wrexham for a fourth spell. [7]

In the summer of 2004 he was released, subsequently joining League of Wales side Caernarfon Town. After a brief spell as joint-caretaker manager at Caernarfon (with Kenny Irons), he signed for the NEWI Cefn Druids in November 2006.

He joined Prestatyn Town for a spell that included both playing and as the team's manager from March 2011. [8]

International career

Jones has represented Wales at Youth, Under-21 and B level, [9] and he also won two caps for the senior side. [4]

Coaching career

He had a brief spell as joint caretaker manager at Wrexham at the tail-end of the 2014–15 season alongside Carl Darlington following Kevin Wilkin's sacking. [10]

He coached the Glyndŵr University Football Academy at Wrexham F.C before rejoining Tranmere Rovers in June 2016 as Academy Manager. [11]

On 27 January 2025, Jones was appointed assistant manager of National League side Wealdstone. [12]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cefn Druids A.F.C.</span> Association football club in Wales

Cefn Druids Association Football Club is an association football team based in the village of Cefn Mawr, Wrexham. The club reformed in the 2024–25 season to play in the North East Wales Championship. Before, the club played in the Cymru North after being relegated from the Cymru Premier in 2021–22 but withdrew ahead of the 2023–24 season due to the management and playing staff leaving over unpaid wages and a transfer ban by Fifa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caernarfon Town F.C.</span> Association football club in Wales

Caernarfon Town Football Club is a professional Welsh football club based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. They play in the Cymru Premier.

Brian Flynn is a Welsh former footballer and manager. As a player, he was a Welsh international, who played as a midfielder.

Andrew John Parkinson is an English former professional footballer and youth team manager of Tranmere Rovers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neil Ashton (footballer)</span> English footballer

Neil John Ashton is an English football manager and former footballer who was most recently manager of Cefn Albion. Typically played as left-back, he occasionally acted as a midfielder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Danny Coyne</span> Welsh footballer

Daniel Coyne is a Welsh football coach and former professional player.

Martin Thomas Devaney is a football coach and former professional midfielder who is currently assistant head coach of EFL League One Barnsley. Born in England of Irish parents, Devaney has played for the Republic Ireland at youth level.

Keith John Hill is an English professional former footballer and football manager who was most recently manager of National League club Scunthorpe United.

Lee Anthony Fowler is a Welsh professional football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He earned 12 Wales Under-21 caps. He is the manager of Flint Town United.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prestatyn Town F.C.</span> Association football club in Wales

Prestatyn Town Football Club is a Welsh professional football club based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire. They play in the Cymru North.

Graham George Williams was a Welsh footballer. A left-sided winger, he scored 47 goals in 249 league games in a 14-year career in the English Football League. He also won five senior caps for Wales in 1961.

William James Steel is a Scottish former professional association footballer. A big, aggressive player, his position was centre forward.

Alan Morgan is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales under-21 international. He moved into club management after his playing career, with Welsh Premier League side Aberystwyth Town.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dale Jennings (footballer)</span> English footballer

Dale Jennings is an English footballer who plays as a forward.

Neil David Gibson is a Welsh manager and former footballer who is currently manager of National League club Wealdstone.

Alex Michael Reid is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Wealdstone on loan from National League club Oldham Athletic.

Paul Whitfield is a Welsh footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made appearances in the English Football League with Wrexham, and was part of their promotion-winning 2002–03 season from the Football League Third Division. He is now goalkeeping coach for the under-18 and under-23 teams at Swansea City.

Ian Dawes is an English football manager who was most recently the manager of EFL League Two side Tranmere Rovers.

Vimal Yoganathan is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League One club Barnsley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Ruscoe</span> Welsh football and futsal coach (born 1986)

Andrew Lee Ruscoe is a Welsh football and futsal coach known for his contributions to semi-professional football in Wales. Ruscoe is the Director of Futsal, co-founder, and manager of FC United of Wrexham, a non-profit football and futsal club established in 2020.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lee Jones". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Lee Jones Profile". TranmereRovers.co.uk. Tranmere Rovers Football Club. Archived from the original on 29 April 2001. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. ↑ "Lee Jones: From Lex to Liverpool FC via Wrexham AFC".
  4. 1 2 Lee Jones at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  5. ↑ "Duo Released". TranmereRovers.co.uk. Tranmere Rovers Football Club. 8 May 2000. Archived from the original on 9 March 2001. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Double Signing Confirmed". BarnsleyFC.co.uk. Barnsley Football Club. 3 July 2000. Archived from the original on 19 September 2000. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Player profile: Lee Jones". LFCHistory.net. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  8. ↑ Jones, Dave (30 March 2011). "Lee Jones is new Prestatyn Town FC manager". North Wales Live. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Welsh Premier career details for Lee Jones". welsh-premier.com. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  10. ↑ Williams, Richard (14 April 2015). "Jones open to talk to Wrexham about manager role". The Leader. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "Former Tranmere Rovers player appointed new manager of club's Academy". Wirral Globe. 3 June 2016.
  12. ↑ "NEIL GIBSON APPOINTED FIRST TEAM MANAGER". www.wealdstone-fc.com. 27 January 2025. Retrieved 27 January 2025.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.