Lewis Buxton

Lewis Edward Buxton (born 10 December 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Lewis Buxton
Buxton playing for Sheffield Wednesday in 2014
Personal information
Full name Lewis Edward Buxton[1]
Date of birth (1983-12-10) 10 December 1983[2]
Place of birth Newport, Isle of Wight, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
0000–2001 Portsmouth
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2004 Portsmouth 30 (0)
2002 → Exeter City (loan) 4 (0)
2003 → Bournemouth (loan) 17 (0)
2003–2004 → Bournemouth (loan) 26 (0)
2004–2009 Stoke City 53 (1)
2008–2009 → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 15 (0)
2009–2015 Sheffield Wednesday 181 (6)
2015–2016 Rotherham United 20 (0)
2016–2017 Bolton Wanderers 9 (0)
Total 355 (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Buxton began his career with Portsmouth where he progressed through the youth ranks at the club. He gained first team experience with loan spells at Exeter City and Bournemouth. He joined Stoke City in January 2005 in order to find first team football. His time at the Britannia Stadium was hampered by injury and he left for Sheffield Wednesday in October 2008. With the Owls Buxton established himself as a regular member of the team and spent seven years, making 207 appearances.

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. Buxton was released by Wednesday at the end of the 2014–15 season.[8]

Rotherham United

In June 2015 Buxton signed for Rotherham United on a one-year contract with the option of a further year.[9] After Rotherham had succeeded in surviving from relegation in the Championship, finishing one place above the drop in 21st,[10] the club decided to opt in not keeping Buxton for a further season, and instead let his contract run out, releasing him.

Bolton Wanderers

On 5 August 2016, following an unsuccessful trial with Charlton Athletic, it was confirmed that Buxton had agreed a one-year contract to join Bolton Wanderers.[11] On 11 May 2017 the club confirmed that Buxton would be leaving at the end of his contract on 30 June.[12] Buxton retired from playing football after leaving the Trotters.[13]

Career statistics

Source:[14]

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[A] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Portsmouth 2001–02[15] First Division 2900000—290
2002–03[16] First Division 100000—10
2003–04[17] Premier League 000000—00
Total 300000000300
Exeter City (loan) 2002–03[16] Third Division 4000002060
Bournemouth (loan) 2002–03[16] Third Division 170100000180
2003–04[17] Second Division 260200000280
Total 430300000460
Stoke City 2004–05[18] Championship 1601000—170
2005–06[19] Championship 3213010—361
2006–07[20] Championship 100000—10
2007–08[21] Championship 400000—40
2008–09[22] Premier League 000020—20
Total 531403000601
Sheffield Wednesday 2008–09[22] Championship 3211000—331
2009–10[23] Championship 2801000—290
2010–11[24] League One 301000020321
2011–12[25] League One 371200000391
2012–13[26] Championship 4002020—440
2013–14[27] Championship 2030000—203
2014–15[28] Championship 900010—100
Total 19666030202076
Rotherham United 2015–16[29] Championship 2000020—220
Bolton Wanderers 2016–17[30] League One 90000020110
Career Total 355713080603827
A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League play-offs and Football League Trophy.

Honours
Sheffield Wednesday
Bolton Wanderers

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. 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. "Sheffield Wednesday release 11 players including Lewis Buxton". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  9. "Lewis Buxton: Rotherham United sign ex-Owls defender". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  10. "Championship table, stats, results, form and standings".
  11. "Lewis Buxton joins Bolton Wanderers". Bolton Wanderers FC. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  12. "Wanderers confirm player departures". Bolton Wanderers Official Site. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  13. "Bolton's 2017 summer released list: Where are they now?". lionofviennasuite.sbnation.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  14. "Lewis Buxton". Soccerbase. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
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  27. "Games played by Lewis Buxton in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  28. "Games played by Lewis Buxton in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  29. "Games played by Lewis Buxton in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  30. "Games played by Lewis Buxton in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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