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Amari'i Bell

Amari'i Kyren Bell (born 5 May 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Luton Town and the Jamaica national team.

Amari'i Bell
Personal information
Full name Amari'i Kyren Bell[1]
Date of birth (1994-05-05) 5 May 1994 (age 30)[2]
Place of birth Burton upon Trent, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[3]
Position(s) Left back[4]
Team information
Current team
Luton Town
Number 29
Youth career
West Bromwich Albion
0000–2011 Solihull Moors
2011–2012 Birmingham City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Birmingham City 1 (0)
2013Nuneaton Town (loan) 8 (0)
2013Nuneaton Town (loan) 11 (0)
2014Kidderminster Harriers (loan) 10 (2)
2014Mansfield Town (loan) 0 (0)
2014–2015Swindon Town (loan) 10 (0)
2015Gillingham (loan) 7 (0)
2015–2018 Fleetwood Town 115 (6)
2018–2021 Blackburn Rovers 90 (3)
2021– Luton Town 106 (2)
International career
2021– Jamaica 17 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Bell joined Birmingham City's Academy in 2011 and turned professional the following year. He spent time on loan at Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town in the first half of the 2013–14 season before making his Football League debut for Birmingham in January 2014. Later that season he returned to the Conference Premier with Kidderminster Harriers. After a loan spell at League Two club Mansfield Town at the start of the 2014–15 season was cut short, Bell spent three months with League One club Swindon Town before joining another League One club, Gillingham, also on loan, in March 2015. He was released by Birmingham at the end of the 2014–15 season and signed for Fleetwood Town of League One. He spent two-and-a-half seasons with Fleetwood, making 137 appearances, before moving on to Blackburn Rovers in January 2018. After three-and-a-half seasons, 99 appearances, and a promotion to the Championship, he signed for Luton Town in 2021 and helped them gain promotion to the Premier League in 2023.

Bell was born in England and has played international football for Jamaica, for which he qualifies by descent. He represented Jamaica at the 2021 and 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cups.

Life and club career edit

Early life and career edit

Bell was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire,[5] and raised in the Quinton district of Birmingham, where he attended Four Dwellings High School.[6] As a youngster he was in the youth system at West Bromwich Albion before moving on to Solihull Moors,[7] and he joined Birmingham City's academy in 2011.[5] In June 2012, Bell signed a one-year professional contract.[8] He played regularly for the development squad during the 2012–13 season, and was rewarded with another one-year contract, with the option of a further year.[5]

In July 2013, Bell joined Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town on loan until the following January.[9] He made his debut in the opening match of the season, a 1–0 win at Macclesfield Town, playing at left wing-back. According to the local newspaper, he "shone",[10] though the player himself was more critical, recognising the need to minimise errors such as "a bit at the end where I took a poor touch and they could have scored from it."[11] He kept his place in the starting eleven as Nuneaton went unbeaten for the first nine matches, apart from one match missed with a dead leg,[12][13] but was suddenly recalled by his parent club on 20 September.[14]

First-team debut with Birmingham City edit

Bell was given a squad number, and was considered for a defensive role ahead of Birmingham's third round League Cup match against Swansea City on 25 September, with Kyle Bartley ineligible and David Murphy rested after returning only recently from long-term injury.[15] He played no part in the match, not even as an unused substitute, and returned to Nuneaton a couple of days later.[16] Bell re-established himself at left back, playing a further eleven times in the Conference Premier and once in the FA Cup,[12] before Birmingham recalled him again on 9 December after starting left-back Mitch Hancox damaged a knee and with Murphy again unfit.[17]

He was included among the substitutes for Birmingham's next match, a 2–0 win away to AFC Bournemouth, but remained unused.[18] Bell made his first-team debut on 28 January 2014, starting at left back against Championship leaders Leicester City as a late replacement for Hancox who had injured an ankle. He played the whole of the 2–1 defeat.[19]

More loan spells edit

That was his last first-team appearance before he joined Conference Premier club Kidderminster Harriers on 6 March 2014, on a youth loan until the end of the season.[20] For the second time that season, he made his club debut in a win against Macclesfield, on this occasion as a stoppage-time substitute as Kidderminster held on to a 2–1 lead.[21] On 15 April, he scored his first goal in senior football to open the scoring in a 2–0 win against Cambridge United.[12]

Ahead of the 2014–15 season, Bell signed for League Two club Mansfield Town on loan until January 2015,[22] but was recalled only three matches into the campaign having failed to get any playing time.[23] On 26 September 2014, he joined Swindon Town of League One on a youth loan until 3 January 2015.[24] He hoped to regain self-belief by playing matches as part of a confident team, and went straight into the starting eleven for Swindon's 3–0 win away to Barnsley.[25] Bell started six matches during October, displacing Liverpool loanee Brad Smith,[26] but then lost his place to another loanee, Harry Toffolo,[27] and for the remainder of his time with the club was used mainly as a late substitute or not at all.[28]

In March 2015, Bell joined League One Gillingham on loan until the end of the season.[29] He went straight into the starting eleven in place of the injured Joe Martin for the match against Colchester United, which Gillingham drew 2–2,[30] and started the next five matches, but then lost his place and made only one more appearance, as a very late substitute.[31]

Fleetwood Town edit

Birmingham decided not to take up their option of a further year on Bell's contract, and confirmed he would be released.[32] Despite reported interest from Gillingham,[33] Bell agreed to join League One club Fleetwood Town on 1 July 2015 after the expiry of his Birmingham contract.[7] He went straight into the side at left wing back. In his fourth match, a 4–3 win away to Bury, he provided the assist for his fellow wing-back Tyler Hornby-Forbes' first Football League goal,[34] and in the following match, he set up two goals in a 4–0 defeat of Colchester United.[35] Assistant manager Chris Lucketti was impressed with both Bell and Hornby-Forbes: "with their athleticism, their attitude, their will to win and the running power they have they were different class – it turned the tide in our favour."[36]

Fleetwood form and results dipped, Graham Alexander was replaced as manager by Steven Pressley, and Bell himself was struggling: after a home defeat against Chesterfield at the end of October, the Blackpool Gazette wrote that "Bell's shortcomings at left back are becoming more difficult to ignore",[37] while Pressley said he needed more self-belief.[38] He helped Fleetwood reach the Northern Final of the Football League Trophy, but missed his penalty as they lost to Barnsley in a shootout.[39] By March 2016, Pressley was suggesting that Bell had the attributes to play at the top level, highlighting his pace, athleticism and ability in a one-to-one situation but also his need to work on crossing,[40] an issue raised by the player himself early in the season.[35] He made 51 appearances in all competitions as Fleetwood narrowly avoided relegation to League Two, and was one of a four-man shortlist for the club's Young Player of the Year awards, but lost out to Ashley Hunter.[41][42]

He missed some of the 2016–17 pre-season with a hamstring problem,[43] but that did not prevent Bell becoming a first-team regular under yet another new manager, Uwe Rösler. Being used at wing-back rather than full-back helped his attacking ambitions, and he scored his first goal for Fleetwood in his 71st match, an FA Cup replay against Southport on 15 November 2016, and his second in the league the following week.[44][45] In the January 2017 transfer window, there was interest in Bell from clubs including Brighton & Hove Albion,[46] Crystal Palace and West Ham United. Rösler said that Bell had added consistency to his game, and would do better staying at Fleetwood until at least the end of the season, "to reach another level. He does not want to go to a football club and be a sub. He wants to be bought for a lot of money and go right in there as their left-back."[47] He did stay, and contributed a late equaliser against Charlton that kept Fleetwood's run going on its way to 18 matches unbeaten.[48][49] He ended the season with 53 appearances, taking his total for Fleetwood to 104, as they reached and lost to Bradford City in the play-offs.[50]

Blackburn Rovers edit

Bell's Fleetwood contract was due to expire at the end of the 2017–18 season, and he was unlikely to sign a new one. In the January transfer window, Fleetwood agreed terms for his transfer to another League One club, Blackburn Rovers, and the player signed on 19 January 2018 on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The fee was undisclosed, but understood by Sky Sports to be in the region of £300,000.[51][52] He contributed to their promotion to and establishment in the Championship over what became a three-and-a-half-year stay, during which he made 99 appearances in all competitions.[53] Bell left Blackburn Rovers when his contract expired at the end of the 2020–21 season.[54]

Luton Town edit

Bell agreed a contract with another Championship club, Luton Town, to begin on 1 July 2021 when he became a free agent.[55]

International career edit

In May 2019, Bell received an invitation to play for the Jamaican national team, ahead to team selection for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup in July,[56] but he withdrew through injury. He qualified for Jamaica because his grandparents are from that country.[57]

In March 2021 he was one of six uncapped English-born players to receive a call-up.[58] This time, he was able to accept, and made his debut in the starting eleven for the friendly against the United States in Austria on 25 March 2021. He played the whole match, which Jamaica lost 4–1.[59] He was a member of the squad for the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and played in all three group matches,[1] but not in the quarter-final defeat by the United States.[60]

Bell scored his first international goal on 9 July 2023 in a 1–0 win over Guatemala in the quarterfinals of the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[61]

Career statistics edit

Club edit

As of match played 2 March 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Birmingham City 2013–14[62] Championship 1 0 0 0 1 0
2014–15[31] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Nuneaton Town (loan) 2013–14[12] Conference Premier 19 0 1 0 0 0 20 0
Kidderminster Harriers (loan) 2013–14[12] Conference Premier 10 2 10 2
Mansfield Town (loan) 2014–15[31] League Two 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swindon Town (loan) 2014–15[31] League One 10 0 0 0 1[a] 0 11 0
Gillingham (loan) 2014–15[31] League One 7 0 7 0
Fleetwood Town 2015–16[41] League One 44 0 1 0 1 0 5[a] 0 51 0
2016–17[50] League One 44 2 6 1 1 0 2[b] 0 53 3
2017–18[63] League One 27 4 5 0 0 0 1[c] 0 33 4
Total 115 6 12 1 2 0 8 0 137 7
Blackburn Rovers 2017–18[63] League One 12 0 12 0
2018–19[64] Championship 38 3 2 0 3 0 43 3
2019–20[65] Championship 21 0 1 0 0 0 22 0
2020–21[66] Championship 19 0 1 0 2 0 22 0
Total 90 3 4 0 5 0 99 3
Luton Town 2021–22[67] Championship 41 1 3 0 0 0 2[d] 0 46 1
2022–23[68] Championship 44 1 4 0 0 0 3[d] 0 51 1
2023–24[69] Premier League 21 0 4 0 2 0 27 0
Total 106 2 11 0 2 0 5 0 123 2
Career total 358 13 28 1 9 0 14 0 406 14
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy
  2. ^ Appearances in League One play-offs
  3. ^ Appearance in EFL Trophy
  4. ^ a b Appearances in Championship play-offs

International edit

As of match played 13 September 2023[1]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Jamaica 2021 5 0
2022 3 0
2023 9 1
Total 17 1
Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bell goal.
List of international goals scored by Amari'i Bell
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 9 July 2023 TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, United States   Guatemala 1–0 1–0 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup [61]

Honours edit

Blackburn Rovers

Luton Town

Individual

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External links edit

  • Profile at the Luton Town F.C. website
  • Amari'i Bell at Premier League
  • Amari'i Bell at Soccerbase  

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Amari i Kyren Bell born 5 May 1994 is a professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Luton Town and the Jamaica national team Amari i BellPersonal informationFull nameAmari i Kyren Bell 1 Date of birth 1994 05 05 5 May 1994 age 30 2 Place of birthBurton upon Trent EnglandHeight5 ft 11 in 1 80 m 3 Position s Left back 4 Team informationCurrent teamLuton TownNumber29Youth careerWest Bromwich Albion0000 2011Solihull Moors2011 2012Birmingham CitySenior career YearsTeamApps Gls 2012 2015Birmingham City1 0 2013 Nuneaton Town loan 8 0 2013 Nuneaton Town loan 11 0 2014 Kidderminster Harriers loan 10 2 2014 Mansfield Town loan 0 0 2014 2015 Swindon Town loan 10 0 2015 Gillingham loan 7 0 2015 2018Fleetwood Town115 6 2018 2021Blackburn Rovers90 3 2021 Luton Town106 2 International career 2021 Jamaica17 1 Club domestic league appearances and goals correct as of 11 39 3 March 2024 UTC National team caps and goals correct as of 11 39 3 March 2024 UTC Bell joined Birmingham City s Academy in 2011 and turned professional the following year He spent time on loan at Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town in the first half of the 2013 14 season before making his Football League debut for Birmingham in January 2014 Later that season he returned to the Conference Premier with Kidderminster Harriers After a loan spell at League Two club Mansfield Town at the start of the 2014 15 season was cut short Bell spent three months with League One club Swindon Town before joining another League One club Gillingham also on loan in March 2015 He was released by Birmingham at the end of the 2014 15 season and signed for Fleetwood Town of League One He spent two and a half seasons with Fleetwood making 137 appearances before moving on to Blackburn Rovers in January 2018 After three and a half seasons 99 appearances and a promotion to the Championship he signed for Luton Town in 2021 and helped them gain promotion to the Premier League in 2023 Bell was born in England and has played international football for Jamaica for which he qualifies by descent He represented Jamaica at the 2021 and 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cups Contents 1 Life and club career 1 1 Early life and career 1 2 First team debut with Birmingham City 1 3 More loan spells 1 4 Fleetwood Town 1 5 Blackburn Rovers 1 6 Luton Town 2 International career 3 Career statistics 3 1 Club 3 2 International 4 Honours 5 References 6 External linksLife and club career editEarly life and career edit Bell was born in Burton upon Trent Staffordshire 5 and raised in the Quinton district of Birmingham where he attended Four Dwellings High School 6 As a youngster he was in the youth system at West Bromwich Albion before moving on to Solihull Moors 7 and he joined Birmingham City s academy in 2011 5 In June 2012 Bell signed a one year professional contract 8 He played regularly for the development squad during the 2012 13 season and was rewarded with another one year contract with the option of a further year 5 In July 2013 Bell joined Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town on loan until the following January 9 He made his debut in the opening match of the season a 1 0 win at Macclesfield Town playing at left wing back According to the local newspaper he shone 10 though the player himself was more critical recognising the need to minimise errors such as a bit at the end where I took a poor touch and they could have scored from it 11 He kept his place in the starting eleven as Nuneaton went unbeaten for the first nine matches apart from one match missed with a dead leg 12 13 but was suddenly recalled by his parent club on 20 September 14 First team debut with Birmingham City edit Bell was given a squad number and was considered for a defensive role ahead of Birmingham s third round League Cup match against Swansea City on 25 September with Kyle Bartley ineligible and David Murphy rested after returning only recently from long term injury 15 He played no part in the match not even as an unused substitute and returned to Nuneaton a couple of days later 16 Bell re established himself at left back playing a further eleven times in the Conference Premier and once in the FA Cup 12 before Birmingham recalled him again on 9 December after starting left back Mitch Hancox damaged a knee and with Murphy again unfit 17 He was included among the substitutes for Birmingham s next match a 2 0 win away to AFC Bournemouth but remained unused 18 Bell made his first team debut on 28 January 2014 starting at left back against Championship leaders Leicester City as a late replacement for Hancox who had injured an ankle He played the whole of the 2 1 defeat 19 More loan spells edit That was his last first team appearance before he joined Conference Premier club Kidderminster Harriers on 6 March 2014 on a youth loan until the end of the season 20 For the second time that season he made his club debut in a win against Macclesfield on this occasion as a stoppage time substitute as Kidderminster held on to a 2 1 lead 21 On 15 April he scored his first goal in senior football to open the scoring in a 2 0 win against Cambridge United 12 Ahead of the 2014 15 season Bell signed for League Two club Mansfield Town on loan until January 2015 22 but was recalled only three matches into the campaign having failed to get any playing time 23 On 26 September 2014 he joined Swindon Town of League One on a youth loan until 3 January 2015 24 He hoped to regain self belief by playing matches as part of a confident team and went straight into the starting eleven for Swindon s 3 0 win away to Barnsley 25 Bell started six matches during October displacing Liverpool loanee Brad Smith 26 but then lost his place to another loanee Harry Toffolo 27 and for the remainder of his time with the club was used mainly as a late substitute or not at all 28 In March 2015 Bell joined League One Gillingham on loan until the end of the season 29 He went straight into the starting eleven in place of the injured Joe Martin for the match against Colchester United which Gillingham drew 2 2 30 and started the next five matches but then lost his place and made only one more appearance as a very late substitute 31 Fleetwood Town edit Birmingham decided not to take up their option of a further year on Bell s contract and confirmed he would be released 32 Despite reported interest from Gillingham 33 Bell agreed to join League One club Fleetwood Town on 1 July 2015 after the expiry of his Birmingham contract 7 He went straight into the side at left wing back In his fourth match a 4 3 win away to Bury he provided the assist for his fellow wing back Tyler Hornby Forbes first Football League goal 34 and in the following match he set up two goals in a 4 0 defeat of Colchester United 35 Assistant manager Chris Lucketti was impressed with both Bell and Hornby Forbes with their athleticism their attitude their will to win and the running power they have they were different class it turned the tide in our favour 36 Fleetwood form and results dipped Graham Alexander was replaced as manager by Steven Pressley and Bell himself was struggling after a home defeat against Chesterfield at the end of October the Blackpool Gazette wrote that Bell s shortcomings at left back are becoming more difficult to ignore 37 while Pressley said he needed more self belief 38 He helped Fleetwood reach the Northern Final of the Football League Trophy but missed his penalty as they lost to Barnsley in a shootout 39 By March 2016 Pressley was suggesting that Bell had the attributes to play at the top level highlighting his pace athleticism and ability in a one to one situation but also his need to work on crossing 40 an issue raised by the player himself early in the season 35 He made 51 appearances in all competitions as Fleetwood narrowly avoided relegation to League Two and was one of a four man shortlist for the club s Young Player of the Year awards but lost out to Ashley Hunter 41 42 He missed some of the 2016 17 pre season with a hamstring problem 43 but that did not prevent Bell becoming a first team regular under yet another new manager Uwe Rosler Being used at wing back rather than full back helped his attacking ambitions and he scored his first goal for Fleetwood in his 71st match an FA Cup replay against Southport on 15 November 2016 and his second in the league the following week 44 45 In the January 2017 transfer window there was interest in Bell from clubs including Brighton amp Hove Albion 46 Crystal Palace and West Ham United Rosler said that Bell had added consistency to his game and would do better staying at Fleetwood until at least the end of the season to reach another level He does not want to go to a football club and be a sub He wants to be bought for a lot of money and go right in there as their left back 47 He did stay and contributed a late equaliser against Charlton that kept Fleetwood s run going on its way to 18 matches unbeaten 48 49 He ended the season with 53 appearances taking his total for Fleetwood to 104 as they reached and lost to Bradford City in the play offs 50 Blackburn Rovers edit Bell s Fleetwood contract was due to expire at the end of the 2017 18 season and he was unlikely to sign a new one In the January transfer window Fleetwood agreed terms for his transfer to another League One club Blackburn Rovers and the player signed on 19 January 2018 on a two and a half year contract The fee was undisclosed but understood by Sky Sports to be in the region of 300 000 51 52 He contributed to their promotion to and establishment in the Championship over what became a three and a half year stay during which he made 99 appearances in all competitions 53 Bell left Blackburn Rovers when his contract expired at the end of the 2020 21 season 54 Luton Town edit Bell agreed a contract with another Championship club Luton Town to begin on 1 July 2021 when he became a free agent 55 International career editIn May 2019 Bell received an invitation to play for the Jamaican national team ahead to team selection for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup in July 56 but he withdrew through injury He qualified for Jamaica because his grandparents are from that country 57 In March 2021 he was one of six uncapped English born players to receive a call up 58 This time he was able to accept and made his debut in the starting eleven for the friendly against the United States in Austria on 25 March 2021 He played the whole match which Jamaica lost 4 1 59 He was a member of the squad for the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup and played in all three group matches 1 but not in the quarter final defeat by the United States 60 Bell scored his first international goal on 9 July 2023 in a 1 0 win over Guatemala in the quarterfinals of the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup 61 Career statistics editClub edit As of match played 2 March 2024 Appearances and goals by club season and competition Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Birmingham City 2013 14 62 Championship 1 0 0 0 1 0 2014 15 31 Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Nuneaton Town loan 2013 14 12 Conference Premier 19 0 1 0 0 0 20 0 Kidderminster Harriers loan 2013 14 12 Conference Premier 10 2 10 2 Mansfield Town loan 2014 15 31 League Two 0 0 0 0 0 0 Swindon Town loan 2014 15 31 League One 10 0 0 0 1 a 0 11 0 Gillingham loan 2014 15 31 League One 7 0 7 0 Fleetwood Town 2015 16 41 League One 44 0 1 0 1 0 5 a 0 51 0 2016 17 50 League One 44 2 6 1 1 0 2 b 0 53 3 2017 18 63 League One 27 4 5 0 0 0 1 c 0 33 4 Total 115 6 12 1 2 0 8 0 137 7 Blackburn Rovers 2017 18 63 League One 12 0 12 0 2018 19 64 Championship 38 3 2 0 3 0 43 3 2019 20 65 Championship 21 0 1 0 0 0 22 0 2020 21 66 Championship 19 0 1 0 2 0 22 0 Total 90 3 4 0 5 0 99 3 Luton Town 2021 22 67 Championship 41 1 3 0 0 0 2 d 0 46 1 2022 23 68 Championship 44 1 4 0 0 0 3 d 0 51 1 2023 24 69 Premier League 21 0 4 0 2 0 27 0 Total 106 2 11 0 2 0 5 0 123 2 Career total 358 13 28 1 9 0 14 0 406 14 a b Appearance s in Football League Trophy Appearances in League One play offs Appearance in EFL Trophy a b Appearances in Championship play offs International edit As of match played 13 September 2023 1 Appearances and goals by national team and year National team Year Apps Goals Jamaica 2021 5 0 2022 3 0 2023 9 1 Total 17 1 Scores and results list Jamaica s goal tally first score column indicates score after each Bell goal List of international goals scored by Amari i Bell No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref 1 9 July 2023 TQL Stadium Cincinnati United States nbsp Guatemala 1 0 1 0 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup 61 Honours editBlackburn Rovers EFL League One runner up 2017 18 70 Luton Town EFL Championship play offs 2023 71 Individual PFA Team of the Year 2017 18 League One 72 References edit a b c Amari i Bell Internationals worldfootball net HeimSpiel Medien Retrieved 16 September 2023 Amari i Bell 11v11 com AFS 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