{{Short description|English footballer (born 1973)}} {{for|the 1960s soul singer Junior Lewis|C. L. Blast}} {{Use British English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Junior Lewis | image = JuniorLewis.jpg | caption = Lewis pictured in 2009 | image_size = 200 | full_name = Carl Junior Lewis | height = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|10|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Wembley, England | currentclub = Hednesford Town (assistant manager) | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | youthyears1 = –1992 | youthclubs1 = Fulham | years1 = 1992–1993 | years2 = 1993–1996 | years3 = 1996 | years4 = 1996–1999 | years5 = 1999–2001 | years6 = 2001 | years7 = 2001–2004 | years8 = 2002 | years9 = 2003 | years10 = 2003 | years11 = 2004 | years12 = 2004–2005 | years13 = 2005–2006 | years14 = 2006 | years15 = 2006–2007 | years16 = 2007–2008 | years17 = 2008 | years18 = 2011–2014 | clubs1 = Fulham | clubs2 = Dover Athletic | clubs3 = Hayes | clubs4 = Hendon | clubs5 = Gillingham | clubs6 = → Leicester City (loan) | clubs7 = Leicester City | clubs8 = → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | clubs9 = → Swindon Town (loan) | clubs10 = → Swindon Town (loan) | clubs11 = → Hull City (loan) | clubs12 = Hull City | clubs13 = Brentford | clubs14 = Milton Keynes Dons | clubs15 = Edgware Town | clubs16 = Stevenage Borough | clubs17 = Welwyn Garden City | clubs18 = Hendon | caps1 = 6 | goals1 = 0 | caps2 = 84 | goals2 = 0 | caps3 = 6 | caps4 = 100 | goals4 = 50 | caps5 = 59 | goals5 = 8 | caps6 = 5 | goals6 = 0 | caps7 = 25 | goals7 = 1 | caps8 = 15 | goals8 = 3 | caps9 = 9 | goals9 = 0 | caps10 = 4 | goals10 = 0 | caps11 = 13 | goals11 = 1 | caps12 = 39 | goals12 = 1 | caps13 = 14 | goals13 = 0 | caps14 = 0 | goals14 = 0 | caps15 = 14 | goals15 = 2 | caps16 = 8 | goals16 = 0 | caps17 = 0 | goals17 = 0 | caps18 = 1 | goals18 = 0 | totalcaps = 402 | totalgoals = 66 }} '''Carl Junior Lewis''' (born 9 October 1973) is an English former footballer who is assistant manager at Hednesford Town.
==Playing career== {{BLP unsourced section|date=February 2016}} Lewis started his career at Fulham as a youngster, making his Football League debut as a substitute against Burnley on 17 October 1992. He went on to make five further league appearances for Fulham starting four matches and playing in one FA Cup game before dropping out of the league in 1993 for spells with Dover Athletic and Hendon. During his first spell with Hendon from 1996 to 1999, he made a total of 146 appearances scoring 68 goals,<ref name="Greensnet">{{Cite web |url=https://www.hendonfc.net/Squad?method=view&id=390 |title=Greensnet – Official Hendon FC: Former Staff – Junior Lewis |website=www.hendonfc.net |access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> famously scoring the winner in an FA Cup 1st round replay at Leyton Orient.<ref>{{Soccerbase season|id=12828|season=1997|access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> Lewis returned to league football in 1999 signing for Gillingham.
After a season and a half at Priestfield, Lewis transferred to Leicester City of the Premier League with subsequent spells at Brighton & Hove Albion (on loan), Swindon Town, Hull City, Brentford, Milton Keynes Dons and Stevenage Borough.
==Coaching career== On 20 June 2008, Lewis was reunited with Peter Taylor, his manager at six previous clubs (Dover, Gillingham, Leicester, Brighton, Hull and Stevenage), joining the backroom staff at Wycombe Wanderers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/wycombe_wanderers/7465506.stm|title= Wycombe bring in Lewis as coach|date=20 June 2008|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=20 June 2008}}</ref> When Taylor parted company with Wycombe by mutual consent in October 2009, Lewis also left the club<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/wycombe_wanderers/8297937.stm|title= Wycombe and Taylor part company|date=9 October 2009|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=9 October 2009}}</ref> with the pair subsequently reunited once again at Bradford City, the eighth club at which Lewis had worked with Taylor either as a player or as part of Taylor's coaching staff.<ref name="Meet Peter Taylor's 'other half'">{{Cite news | title = Meet Peter Taylor's 'other half' | url = http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/5062208.Meet_Peter_Taylor_s__other_half_/ | publisher = Telegraph & Argus | date = 16 March 2010 | accessdate = 16 March 2010}}</ref>
Between his roles at Wycombe and Bradford, Lewis joined Welwyn Garden City of the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whtimes.co.uk/sport/football/former_leicester_star_lewis_signs_for_new_look_welwyn_garden_city_1_10731 |title=Former Leicester star Lewis signs for new-look Welwyn Garden City |date=13 November 2008 |publisher=Welwyn & Hatfield Times |access-date=1 May 2010 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040058/http://www.whtimes.co.uk/sport/football/former_leicester_star_lewis_signs_for_new_look_welwyn_garden_city_1_10731 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2011 Lewis rejoined Hendon as player-coach, having been unemployed since leaving Bradford City towards the end of 2010–11.<ref name="Greensnet" />
On 19 June 2014, it was announced that Lewis would join the coaching staff at Leeds United, working as assistant coach under the newly appointed head coach Dave Hockaday.<ref>{{cite web|title=David Hockaday named as new head coach…|url=http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/1hylw6lsjl1yn14n6t68sfo7nc/title/united-appoint-new-head-coach|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622005601/http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/1hylw6lsjl1yn14n6t68sfo7nc/title/united-appoint-new-head-coach|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 June 2014|website=Leeds United|date=19 June 2014 |accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-i-can-be-a-success-hockaday-1-6684980 |title=Leeds United: I can be a success – Hockaday |newspaper=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=20 June 2014 |accessdate=20 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27924115 |title=Leeds United name Dave Hockaday as head coach |publisher=BBC Sport |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref> The appointment was met largely with surprise by the fans of Leeds United, as Lewis had previously been with eighth tier Hendon.
On 28 August 2014, Lewis and head coach Hockaday were sacked by owner Massimo Cellino, having been in the job for only 70 days.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/czqaoeenck6d1qxe2tf34eerc/title/club-statement-david-hockaday|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830000615/http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/czqaoeenck6d1qxe2tf34eerc/title/club-statement-david-hockaday|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 August 2014|title=Club statement: David Hockaday|publisher=Leeds United|date=27 August 2014 |first=|last=|accessdate=27 August 2014}}</ref>
He returned to coaching for the 2015–16 season with Canvey Island.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isthmian.co.uk/lewis-named-as-new-first-team-coach-25241|title=Lewis named as new first team coach – The Bostik Football League|website=www.isthmian.co.uk|language=en|access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> In September 2015, he joined Boreham Wood as first team coach.<ref>[https://www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk/uncategorized/new-first-team-coach-appointed/ New first team coach appointed]</ref>
Lewis was appointed joint assistant manager alongside Darren Currie at Dagenham & Redbridge for the 2017–18 season.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.daggers.co.uk/news/-KndW64__IxI2DrnXxkF | title=Dagenham & Redbridge FC | Introducing New Assistant Manager Junior Lewis }}</ref>
Lewis joined Barnet as first team coach for the 2018–19 season, following manager John Still and assistant Currie to the Bees. Following the resignation of Still and the promotion of Currie to head coach, Lewis took over Currie's former role as assistant head coach.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.barnetfc.com/news/2019/february/club-statement--coaching-appointments/ |title=Club Statement {{!}} Coaching Appointments |access-date=16 February 2019 |archive-date=17 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217030144/https://www.barnetfc.com/news/2019/february/club-statement--coaching-appointments/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Lewis, and Currie, left Barnet at the end of the 2019–20 season.<ref>[https://www.barnetfc.com/news/2020/august/club-statement-darren-currie-junior-lewis/ Club Statement: Darren Currie]</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Soccerbase}} *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35612549 Junior Lewis and Peter Taylor (BBC Sport 19 February 2016)]
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