Steve Lowndes

Steve Lowndes

Personal information
Full name	Stephen Robert Lowndes
Date of birth	(1960-06-17) 17 June 1960
Place of birth	Newport, Wales
Position(s)	Left midfield
Youth career
1974–1976	Monmouth Town
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1983	Newport County	208	(39)
1983–1986	Milwall	96	(10)
1986–1990	Barnsley	116	(20)
1990–1992	Hereford United	49	(4)
1992–1996	Newport County	150	(12)
Total		617	(85)
International career
1983–1988	Wales	10	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Steve Lowndes (born 17 June 1960) is a former Wales international footballer. Lowndes started his career at Newport County during the most successful period in the club's long history. Lowndes was part of the team that won promotion and the Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup.

Millwall signed him from Newport County for £55,000 in August 1983 and he was sold to Barnsley in 1986 for £40,000.

After retiring from playing he became physio to the Wales international team before moving into teaching.

Steve Lowndes is now Academy Director of Coaching for Cirencester football academy and has helped develop professional players such as Matt Green, Chris Zebroski and Stuart Nelson. He has also led the academy to a number of honours over the years and twice to the later rounds of the FA Youth Cup. He is a UAFA A licence coach, a qualified Physiotherapists as well as holding a degree and a post graduate teaching qualification.