Lee Chapman

Lee Chapman ( born December 5, 1959 in Lincoln ) is a former English footballer. As a player he won in 1992 with Leeds United English Championship. As early as 1989 he had won with the Nottingham Forest English League Cup.

Playing career

Stoke City, Arsenal and Sunderland (1978-1984)

Lee Chapman made ​​his debut at the age of nineteen years in the Football League First Division 1979/80 for Stoke City. Previously, he had been denied four third league games on loan at Plymouth Argyle. During the 1980/81 season he won a regular place and scored fifteen league goals in forty-one games. 1981/82, he increased his goal tally to sixteen league goals, but finished the season with Stoke only as a table Eighteenth.

On August 25, 1982, the 22 - year-old striker joined for £ 500,000 for Arsenal FC, arrived there, however, in the First Division 1982/83 not as hoped for the course ( 19 league games / 3 goals ). After he rarely was also used during the subsequent season, he moved on December 29, 1983 AFC Sunderland. By the end of the 1983/84 season he scored three goals in fifteen league games for the first division.

Sheffield Wednesday and Chamois Niort (1984-1988)

On August 24, 1984 Sheffield Wednesday pledged to last no more unerring striker for £ 100,000 transfer fee. 1984/85 was Chapman (40 Spiele/14 goals) back to its former strength and finished the season with his new club as a table of eight. In the following three seasons of the attackers hit two digits each, where he scored particularly 1986/87 (19 league goals ) and 1987 /88 ( 20 league goals ) to the best scorers in the league.

After two excellent seasons and the departure of his coach Howard Wilkinson at Leeds United, he moved on 1 June 1988 to the French second division Chamois Niort. After only ten games ( three goals ), he returned, however, already in October 1988 returned to England.

Nottingham Forest and Leeds United (1988-1993)

On October 17, 1988 it undertook for £ 350,000 transfer fee, the English first division club Nottingham Forest. With the trained team of Brian Clough Chapman finished ( 30 games / 8 goals), the 1988/89 season as a third party and failed only in the semi-finals of the FA Cup 1988/89 in the replay at Liverpool. The first semi-final was canceled due to the Hillsborough disaster. Already on 9 April 1989, Forest had secured with Lee Chapman the title in the League Cup final in 1989 ( 3-1 against Luton Town ). In addition, the club also won thanks to two goals from Lee Chapman by a 4:3 nV over Everton the Full Members Cup. After seven hits in eighteen league games, he moved to the start of the season on January 11, 1990 Leeds United.

Leeds has been trained since 1988 by Howard Wilkinson, who had been between 1984 and 1988 Chapmans coach at Sheffield Wednesday. With twelve goals in twenty league games he contributed his share to the profit of the second division championship. In the Football League First Division in 1990/91 he could preserve his marksmanship and with twenty league goals scored only one goal less than the top scorer Alan Martin Smith of the champions FC Arsenal. Leeds boosted fourth place in the rise of game time in the First Division in 1991/92 by winning the first championship since 1974. Chapman scored sixteen goals and was again the top scorer of his team. After fourteen hits in the first Premier League (Leeds was only Seventeenth ), joined the 33- year-old forward on 11 August 1993 on the second-tier club Portsmouth.

Further stations (1993-1996)

A month later he signed for West Ham United and Erstligaaufsteiger met in thirty games seven times. He subsequently worked for Southend United, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Swansea City and the Norwegian first division side Strømsgodset IF he finished his playing career in 1996.

Achievements

  • League Cup Winners: 1989 ( 3-1 against Luton Town )
  • Full Members Cup winner: 1989 (4:3 nV against Everton )
  • English Champion: 1992
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