Lee Camp (footballer)

Lee Camp

Personal information
Full name	Lee Michael John Camp
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Nottingham Forest
Number	1
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2007	Derby County	89	(0)
2003	→ Burton Albion (loan)	5	(0)
2004	→ Queens Park Rangers (loan)	12	(0)
2006	→ Norwich City (loan)	3	(0)
2007	→ Queens Park Rangers (loan)	11	(0)
2007–2009	Queens Park Rangers	50	(0)
2008–2009	→ Nottingham Forest (loan)	15	(0)
2009–	Nottingham Forest	45	(0)
International career‡
2004–2007	England U21	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:03, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Lee Michael John Camp (born 22 August 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Nottingham Forest as a goalkeeper. He has also played for the England Under 21 side.

Career

Derby County

He made his first appearance with Derby County during the 2002–03 season, and joined Burton Albion on loan in January 2003. At the end of the same season, he went to Queens Park Rangers for the last few games also on loan, where he helped the club reach promotion to the old Division One. In Derby's end-of-season awards he came close to winning Player Of The Season but went home with the Sammy Crooks Young Player of the Year award. He also won the Brian Clough Player Of The Year. Camp enjoyed many successes not only in the football world; he appeared on many radio shows and also participated in Goalkeeping Essentials by former Derby County coach Alex Penny.

Camp joined Norwich City on 7 September 2006, on a three-month loan with effect from 8 September, covering an injury to Joe Lewis. Camp made his first Norwich City full début on the 28 November 2006 against Leicester City. He kept his place for the following match against Sheffield Wednesday where he was unfortunate to score an own goal in a 2–1 defeat.

Queens Park Rangers

Camp joined his former side Queens Park Rangers on a three-month loan deal on 12 February 2007. Camp was a firm fan favourite after helping the club achieve promotion in 2004 in a similar loan deal. He returned to Derby early, on 25 April 2007, after a suspension to Stephen Bywater left the Rams short of goalkeepers.

Camp was transferred to QPR on 27 July 2007 after long negotiations for a fee of £300,000. He agreed a three-year deal with the club. Camp was the only QPR player to start in every league fixture of the 2007-08 campaign.

Nottingham Forest

On 20 October 2008, Camp joined Nottingham Forest on a three-month loan. He played a pivotal role in helping the club climb out of the bottom three and also saved two penalties; one against Derby, his former club and one against Bristol City, both were in the final minutes of the games. He was allowed to go back to QPR when Colin Calderwood was sacked and replaced by Billy Davies, his former manager at Derby.

On 2 July 2009, it was announced on Forest's official website that everything had been agreed and Camp was to undergo a medical and complete the signing by 4 July 2009. The fee is reported to be around £100,000 but with additional payments.

He made his first start as a permanent Forest player on Monday 10th August in their League opener against Reading where they were unlucky to come away with only a 0-0 draw. Lee has made an excellent start as first choice Forest goalkeeper; in conceding only 1 goal in 6 games, including the keeping of a clean sheet for over 10.5 hours of football, he won the December Championship Player of the Month Award , as well as helping the side up to the heights of 2nd in the Championship by January 17th, 2010. Camp went on to win 'Player of the Year' as Forest finished 3rd in the league.

International Career

Camp played for the England under-21s five times, including the first (professional) match at the new Wembley Stadium. He says this honour has been the highlight of his footballing career so far. He let in a weak goal on a shot from forty yards out just five seconds into the match.

Career statistics

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External links

• Lee Camp at Soccerbase