Lee Robert Clark (born 27 October 1972) is an English football manager and former professional

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, who was most recently the manager of

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in the Sudan Premier League. As a player, he was a

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and played in the

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for

Newcastle United Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...

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and

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. He won promotion to the top flight with all three clubs he played for, winning out right the

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title in 1993, 1999 and 2001. He was also part of the Magpies squad under Kevin Keegan that finished runners-up in the top flight in consecutive seasons. He was capped 11 times by the England under-21 team and was called up to the full England squad for the World Cup warm up tournament the 1997 Tournoi de France, but he was only named a substitute and never went on to earn a full international cap. Following his retirement from playing in 2006, he later returned to Newcastle as reserve team manager, before becoming a first team coach at

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. He later became first team manager at

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and had similar spells in charge of

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and

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. In 2020 he joined non-league side

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as director of football, before moving to

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to manage

Club career

Newcastle United

Born in

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, Northumberland, Clark started his career at the club he supported as a boy,

coming up through the

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at the club. In 1993, he was part of the Newcastle side promoted to the

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and then helped them finish runners-up two seasons in a row. During the 1995-96 Premier League season Newcastle United were pipped to the title by

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. After a game where Newcastle United drew 3–3 away at Manchester City, Newcastle United purchased defensive midfielder

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to shore up the team defensively and Clark, more of an attacking midfielder, lost his place in the side. Clark reasons that this was a mistake that hurt the team dynamic that was working, and that this decision may have cost Newcastle United the title. To back up his claim, Clark cited and compared the form of Newcastle United from January 1996 until he was dropped for defensive midfielder Batty; against the form of Newcastle United in the remaining 11 games when Clark was absent. Clark made nearly 200 appearances scoring 23 goals for Newcastle in his first spell at the club.

Sunderland

Clark moved to Newcastle's local rivals, First Division club

, in 1997, and was part of the side promoted to the Premier League in 1999 as

with a (then) professional league record of 105 points. A year earlier, he had been a key player in the side that reached the First Division play-off final, only to suffer a penalty shoot-out defeat to

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after a 4–4 draw at Wembley. However, at the 1999 FA Cup Final he was spotted with the Newcastle fans wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Sad

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Bastards". He was immediately dropped from the team, and never played for Sunderland again.

Fulham

Clark moved to

in 1999. He collected another Division One title medal with in

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, enabling him to experience Premier League football for the first time since the 1996–97 season. In 2004, he helped Fulham secure what was, at the time, their highest final position – ninth in the top flight. During that season he opened the scoring as Fulham beat

3–1 at

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in October 2003. Clark left Fulham in 2005 to return to former club Newcastle United, after making 149 league appearances and scoring 20 goals for the West London club.

Return to Newcastle

Clark was allowed to leave Fulham after his contract expired in the summer of 2005 despite being club captain during the 2004–05 season. At the time of his departure, he was Fulham's longest-serving player. He subsequently returned to Newcastle, coaching and playing on a month-by-month contract. Clark scored one goal for Newcastle in the 2005–06 season, an equaliser in a 2–2 draw with

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. He played his final professional game on 7 May 2006, coming on as a substitute at home to

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. In total he played 265 times for Newcastle, scoring 28 goals.

International career

Clark scored a hat-trick for England schoolboys at

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in 1988 in a 4–1 win for England. He represented England at international level playing for the England under-21s, making 11 appearances between 1992 and 1993 during his time playing for Newcastle. In 1997, he was a member of England's squad for Le Tournoi de France but did not play.

Coaching career

On 1 June 2006, the newly appointed Newcastle manager

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installed Clark as a first team coach and reserve team manager following

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's departure while Clark was still playing for Newcastle. He remained as first team coach and as reserve team manager after retiring in 2007 until Roeder parted company with the club and Clark followed shortly afterwards in November. In November 2007, Clark left his post at Newcastle to become assistant manager to Roeder at

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club

. Clark joined

in July 2020 as director of football to temporarily oversee the youth section of the football club.

Managerial career

Huddersfield Town

After

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club

had dismissed manager Stan Ternent on 4 November 2008, The Terriers were reported to be interested in then Norwich assistant manager Clark. On 12 December 2008, Clark was officially unveiled as the new manager of Huddersfield, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract. Clark replaced Gerry Murphy, who had been caretaker manager for the League One side following the departure of Ternent. The first move made by Clark was to appoint

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as his assistant as well as bringing in

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in as first team coach and Steve Black as performance coach, all of whom had previously worked with Newcastle United. Clark officially took over on 15 December; his first game in charge of the club was a 2–0 win over

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on 20 December. In his first season at the club he helped them to a ninth-placed finish in League One. They also only lost two home league games under Clark in the 2008–09 season. In his second season in charge, Clark helped Huddersfield to secure a play-off spot and became the first manager to win three Manager of the Month awards in a single season since

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in 2007–08. Huddersfield were defeated by Millwall in the 2009–10 play-off semi-final. In the 2010–11 season, Clark guided Huddersfield to a third-placed finish in the league, earning them a place in the play-offs after a club-record 25-game unbeaten run in the league. They reached the final after beating

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4–2 on penalties, but lost 3–0 to

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in the

final. In July 2011, he agreed a new rolling contract with the club. Clark continued breaking records at the beginning of the 2011–12 season, extending the unbeaten run in domestic regular-season league games to a Football League record 43 games. Clark was dismissed as manager of Huddersfield on 15 February 2012 following a 1–0 home defeat to

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Birmingham City

On 26 June 2012, Clark was confirmed as manager of

, with

as his Assistant Manager and

and

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as his First Team Coaches. John Vaughan was brought in as his Goalkeeping Coach and Malcolm Crosby was appointed Chief Scout. Clark signed Peter Lovenkrands, David Lucas,

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and

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in the summer of 2012, as well as Ravel Morrison,

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, James Hurst,

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, Paul Robinson,

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and

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later on throughout the 2012–13 season. Clark endured a difficult start to his managerial reign, with a draw and two losses in a row for his first three games in the Championship. His first win came against

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but Birmingham suffered a 5–0 home defeat against Barnsley in September. During the January 2013 transfer window, Clark sold

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, David Lucas and

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, who returned on loan for the remainder of the season. Clark struggled to get Birmingham out of the bottom half of the league until back to back wins against

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and Middlesbrough took them up to 12th place in March. Despite receiving criticism from fans for alleged poor management skills regarding public fallouts with Nikola Zigic, Clark has been praised for introducing academy players into the first team squad, players including Jack Butland,

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, Mitch Hancox,

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, Koby Arthur and

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. Clark continued the start of 2013 with his team producing good form, including a 4–0 away win at Crystal Palace and back to back 1–0 wins against Bristol City and Leeds. After finishing the season in 12th place, 7 points off the play-offs, Clark made his first signings for the 2013–14 Championship season with

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and

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all signing on free transfers, whilst Olly Lee's loan was made permanent. The 2013–14 season started poorly again for Clark, with Birmingham winning a single game in the league against

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as the Blues made their worst start to a league season for 25 years. Despite poor results in the league (including an 18 home match run without a league win) and the removal from the coaching staff of Clark's right hand men

and

, Clark managed to keep Birmingham City in the Championship with an injury time equaliser from

in the final game of the 2013–14 season against Bolton, the 2–2 result being enough to keep the team up on goal difference. On 20 October 2014, with Birmingham 21st in the table and having won at home in the league only once in more than a year, Clark and assistant

were dismissed. At the time of his dismissal, Clark had won 33 of his 116 games – the lowest win ratio for a quarter of a century from a Birmingham manager – and left the club one point above the relegation zone.

Blackpool

On 30 October 2014, Clark was appointed manager of

on a one-year rolling deal. Having been bottom of the Championship since October 2014 and having won only four games all season, Blackpool were relegated to League One on 6 April 2015 with six games left to play. On 9 May 2015, Clark resigned as manager of Blackpool following their relegation from the Championship. Blackpool won only three games from 33 played under Clark's tenure.

Kilmarnock

Clark was appointed manager of Scottish Premiership club

on 15 February 2016 while they were in the relegation zone. He went on to help Kilmarnock keep their 23-year long

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status by defeating

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4–1 in the play off final with the latter of the two legs being a 4–0 thrashing with goals from

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(2),

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and

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. He left the club in February 2017, exactly a year after joining and with the club in the top six.

Bury

Clark was appointed manager of

club

on 15 February 2017. With the club in the relegation zone, he was tasked with keeping them in the league and succeeded in doing so. After eight months in charge of Bury, Clark was sacked on 30 October 2017. Four consecutive losses before his dismissal saw Bury second from bottom in League One, at the conclusion of October 2017.

Blyth Spartans

On 1 June 2019, National League North club

unveiled Clark as their new manager. He left by mutual consent on 4 March 2020.

Al-Merrikh

On 7 March 2021, Clark was appointed as the new manager of

ese club

and described the opportunity as an 'exciting' and 'different' experience. He took charge of his first game - a 2–1 win over Hilal Al-Fasher in the Sudan Premier League on 9 March 2021. Clark's first experience of the

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was a 3–0 away defeat to

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on 16 March 2021 after which he blamed the loss on 'sabotage'. On 19 June 2021, Al-Merrikh announced Clark had resigned as manager.

Al-Ittihad

In November 2021, Clark was appointed manager of

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of the

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and drew 0-0 with

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during his first game in charge.

Return to Al-Merrikh

On 29 January 2022, Al-Merrikh announced the return of Clark as their manager. However, Clark was sacked just 51 days later following a 3-1 defeat to

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in the

Personal life

Clark's son,

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, plays as a forward for Liverpool Academy, and featured for the first team on their 2022 pre-season tour of Asia.

Career statistics

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Newcastle United *

: 1992–93 Sunderland *Football League First Division: 1998–99 Fulham *Football League First Division: 2000–01 Individual *

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: 1992–93 First Division, 1997–98 First Division, 1998–99 First Division, 2000–01 First Division

Manager

Kilmarnock *

play-offs:

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Individual * League One Manager of the Month: November 2009, February 2010, April 2010, October 2011

References

External links

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