Lee David Harrison (born 12 September 1971) is an English

goalkeeping In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting ...

coach, currently working as Head of Goalkeeping at

Wycombe Wanderers F.C. Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play their home ...

Harrison spent most of his career with

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, but he has played in over 400

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and Cup games in the course of his career with Gillingham,

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandswo ...

Leyton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a profes ...

and

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standin ...

Career

Born in

Billericay Billericay ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon, Essex, England. It lies within the London Basin and constitutes a commuter town east of Central London. The town has three secondary schools and a variety of open spaces. It i ...

, Essex, Harrison, a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting ...

, started his career at

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in ...

without making any first team appearances. From 1996 until 2003 he played 233

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games for Barnet and was Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons. After a £10,000 transfer to Leyton Orient where he played 65 League and Cup games – he moved to Peterborough United for the 2005–06 season, but in July 2006 returned to Barnet as player/coach. He was appointed club captain in July 2007. In his second spell at the club, he attained the feat of making 300 league appearances for the club, honoured with a banner adorned on the North Terrace fence for the match against

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

in which he kept a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw. He was only the fifth player in the last 30 years to achieve this feat for Barnet. Harrison was released at the end of the 2009/10 season and briefly joined

Dagenham & Redbridge Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club is a professional association football club based in Dagenham, Greater London, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Often known simply as Dag ...

as a coach for their successful play-off campaign. Harrison signed a playing contract with

Hayes & Yeading Hayes & Yeading United Football Club is an association football club based in Hayes, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England. The club was formed in 2007 from a merger of Hayes Football Club (founded in 1909) and Yeading Football Club (f ...

on 2 August 2010.

Coaching

Harrison became a UEFA "A" qualified outfield coach at the age of 21, and is also a UEFA "A" qualified goalkeeper coach. In May 2011, Harrison joined Newport County as assistant manager to Anthony Hudson and backup goalkeeper. Following the sacking of Hudson in September 2011 Harrison was appointed caretaker manager for one match, a 2–0 defeat at Darlington.

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was appointed team manager on 4 October 2011 and

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appointed assistant manager, therefore Harrison was released from his contract. On 2 August 2012, it was announced that Harrison had been appointed permanent goalkeeping coach at

Wycombe Wanderers Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play their ho ...

, after a period working at the club on a temporary basis. Harrison was also listed as a player at Wycombe, taking shirt number 21. Harrison left Wycombe in January 2014 to take up a coaching role at Premier League

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium ...

. He was replaced at Wycombe by Barry Richardson. On 3 July 2015, Harrison returned to Leyton Orient as goalkeeper coach under the management of Ian Hendon. In January 2021, he returned to

as their goalkeeping coach. On 7 October 2022, it was announced that Lee Harrison would join Colchester United as First Team Goalkeeping coach, becoming new head coach Matt Bloomfield’s first addition to his backroom staff. On 22 February 2023 Lee Harrison returned to

as goalkeeping coach.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Lee 1971 births Living people People from Billericay English footballers Association football goalkeepers Charlton Athletic F.C. players Fulham F.C. players Gillingham F.C. players Barnet F.C. players Peterborough United F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players Hayes & Yeading United F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. managers English Football League players National League (English football) players Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players English football managers Association football goalkeeping coaches Newport County A.F.C. non-playing staff Wycombe Wanderers F.C. non-playing staff West Ham United F.C. non-playing staff Leyton Orient F.C. non-playing staff Colchester United F.C. non-playing staff