| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lee Roy Chapman[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1959-12-05)5 December 1959 (age 65)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Lincoln,Lincolnshire, England[1] | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1982 | Stoke City | 99 | (34) |
| 1978 | →Plymouth Argyle (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1982–1983 | Arsenal | 23 | (4) |
| 1983–1984 | Sunderland | 15 | (3) |
| 1984–1988 | Sheffield Wednesday | 149 | (63) |
| 1988 | Chamois Niortais | 10 | (3) |
| 1988–1990 | Nottingham Forest | 48 | (15) |
| 1990–1993 | Leeds United | 137 | (62) |
| 1993 | Portsmouth | 5 | (2) |
| 1993–1995 | West Ham United | 40 | (7) |
| 1995 | →Southend United (loan) | 1 | (1) |
| 1995–1996 | Ipswich Town | 22 | (1) |
| 1996 | →Leeds United (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1996 | Swansea City | 7 | (4) |
| 1996 | Strømsgodset Toppfotball | 5 | (1) |
| Total | 575 | (202) | |
| International career | |||
| 1981 | England U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 1991 | England B | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Lee Roy Chapman (born 5 December 1959) is an English former professionalfootballer who played as astriker from 1978 until 1996, in which he scored over 200 first team goals.[1]
He is best known for spells withStoke City,Leeds United,Sheffield Wednesday,Nottingham Forest andWest Ham United. He also played forPlymouth Argyle,Arsenal,Sunderland,Portsmouth,Southend United,Ipswich Town andSwansea City. As well as this he played in both France and Norway forChamois Niortais andStrømsgodset IF, and was capped by both theEngland U21 andEngland B teams. He also won theFootball League Cup with Nottingham Forest and the league title with Leeds United. He scored a total of more than 250 goals in all competitions during a club career which lasted for nearly 20 years.
Chapman was born inLincoln and began his career atStoke City.[1] He made his league debut whilst on loan atPlymouth Argyle in1978–79.[1] He made his debut for Stoke in aLeague Cup match againstSwindon Town with Chapman scoring Stoke's goal in a 2–1 defeat.[1] He soon became a vital player for Stoke top-scoring in both1980–81 and1981–82 which promptedArsenal to pay Stoke £500,000 for his services.[1]
However, the move was not a success – he made only 23 appearances for the club and scored four goals. Chapman moved toSunderland in December 1983, but again failed to establish himself in the team, scoring just 3 goals in 15 appearances.Howard Wilkinson, then manager ofSheffield Wednesday, signed Chapman in August 1984, and at Wednesday he regained his goal scoring form; between 1984 and 1988 Chapman scored 63 goals in 149 appearances. However, Wilkinson moved on to manageLeeds United in 1988, and on his departure Chapman moved on briefly to French sideChamois Niortais.
In October 1988,Brian Clough signed Chapman forNottingham Forest.[3] Chapman was an integral part of the Forest team that won theLeague Cup andFull Members Cup in 1989, scoring two goals in the latter's final.[3] Chapman had a positive season in the league as Forest finished third, though they never looked likely to catch the leading pair ofArsenal (champions on goals scored) and runners-upLiverpool. However, Forest's failure to clinch the title in1988–89 was not ultimately the end of Chapman's quest to be part of a title winning side.
In his time at theCity Ground, Chapman was one of the Forest players who had to cope with the horrors of theHillsborough disaster during the opening minutes of their FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool.[4] Chapman played in the rescheduled game atOld Trafford, which Liverpool won 3–1. In January 1990, Howard Wilkinson paid Nottingham Forest £400,000 to recruit Chapman to Leeds United. Chapman was part of the Leeds team that won theSecond Division title and promotion to the First Division in 1990. Leeds finished 4th in 1991, and 21-goal Chapman was one of the highest scorers in the league. He scored a hat-trick in a remarkable league match atElland Road againstLiverpool on 13 April 1991, though Leeds lost the game 5–4. This was the first time in a decade that a Leeds player had scored a top flight hat-trick (Leeds had been out of the First Division from 1982 until 1990).[5]
In the1991–92 season, Chapman scored 16 goals[6] as Leeds won the last league title before the creation of theFA Premier League.[7] His 16 goals in the club's title winning season included two league hat-tricks; the first in a 6–1 away win against his old club Sheffield Wednesday on 12 January 1992, the second on 14 March 1992 in a 5–1 home win overWimbledon.[5] Chapman scored the club's first two goals in the new league at the start of the1992–93 season, scoring twice in a 2–1 home win overWimbledon.[8] Despite being the top scorer for Leeds in the1992–93 season with 14 goals, Chapman was allowed to move toPortsmouth at the age of 33 for £250,000 on 11 August 1993.[9]
Chapman made a Premier League comeback just four months after moving to Portsmouth whenWest Ham United signed him for £250,000 in September 1993. Making his West Ham debut along with other new signingsMike Marsh andDavid Burrows, Chapman scored in a 2–0 away win againstBlackburn Rovers on 18 September 1993.[10] He played 51 games in all competitions scoring 11 goals.[11] He remained in the Premier League when he moved on toIpswich for a fee of £70,000 in November 1994.[11] He played one game on loan forSouthend United in January 1995, scoring the consolation goal in the Shrimpers' 4–1 defeat atGrimsby Town.
During early 1996 he was loaned back to Leeds United where he played only two games. In his first, against one of his former sides, West Ham United, he was sent-off for elbowing defenderMarc Rieper.[12] He finished his UK career withSwansea. During the summer of 1996 he had a brief spell in Norway withStrømsgodset scoring one goal.
Chapman was capped by both theEngland U21 andEngland B teams.
He is the son of formerLincoln City,Port Vale andChester strikerRoy Chapman. Chapman is married to the actressLeslie Ash, with whom he owns two restaurants: So:uk in London and Teatro Leeds (in which one of his former clubs, Leeds United, is a shareholder).[13] He previously owned another Teatro restaurant in London's Soho.[14]
In 2011 Chapman and his wife,Leslie Ash, indicated that they were preparing to sue theNews of the World for breach of privacy over suspicions that their voicemails, and those of their children, were illegally accessed by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.[15] After writing to the police over their suspicions, the police informed them that there were four pieces of paper referring to Ash in Mulcaire's notebooks, and five items relating to Chapman. There were further items relating to their children.[15]
Source:[16]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other[A] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stoke City | 1978–79 | Second Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979–80 | First Division | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 | |
| 1980–81 | First Division | 41 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 17 | |
| 1981–82 | First Division | 41 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 17 | |
| Total | 99 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 38 | ||
| Plymouth Argyle (loan) | 1978–79 | Third Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Arsenal | 1982–83 | First Division | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 4 |
| 1983–84 | First Division | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| Total | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 5 | ||
| Sunderland | 1983–84 | First Division | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 1984–85 | First Division | 40 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 20 |
| 1985–86 | First Division | 31 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 15 | |
| 1986–87 | First Division | 41 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 22 | |
| 1987–88 | First Division | 37 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 22 | |
| Total | 149 | 63 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 186 | 79 | ||
| Chamois Niortais | 1988–89 | French Division 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| Nottingham Forest | 1988–89 | First Division | 30 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 46 | 19 |
| 1989–90 | First Division | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 8 | |
| Total | 48 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 71 | 27 | ||
| Leeds United | 1989–90 | Second Division | 21 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 12 |
| 1990–91 | First Division | 38 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 54 | 31 | |
| 1991–92 | First Division | 38 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 20 | |
| 1992–93 | Premier League | 40 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 53 | 17 | |
| Total | 137 | 62 | 11 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 172 | 80 | ||
| Portsmouth | 1993–94 | First Division | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| West Ham United | 1993–94 | Premier League | 30 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 11 |
| 1994–95 | Premier League | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 11 | ||
| Southend United (loan) | 1994–95 | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ipswich Town | 1994–95 | Premier League | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 1995–96 | First Division | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| Total | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||
| Leeds United (loan) | 1995–96 | Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Swansea City | 1995–96 | Second Division | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| Strømsgodset | 1996 | Tippeligaen | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Career Total | 567 | 200 | 46 | 21 | 56 | 27 | 23 | 8 | 692 | 256 | ||
