# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:48.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-hughes"
name: "Lee Hughes"
slug: "lee-hughes"
description: "Lee Hughes is an English former professional footballer. A strong striker with excellent finishing abilities, Hughes represented the England semi-professional team once in 1996. After being released as a youth team footballer, Hughes worked as a roofer alongside his father. He started his career in the Conference with Kidderminster Harriers before winning a £380,000 move to boyhood club West Bromwich Albion in August 1997. He finished as the club's top-scorer for four seasons running, earning a place on the PFA Team of the Year in 1998–99 after finishing as the highest scorer in the top four divisions of English football. He was sold to Coventry City for £5 million in August 2001 before returning to West Brom for half of that figure twelve months later. He failed to impress in the Premier League as Albion suffered relegation but helped the club to make an immediate return to the top flight as runners-up in the First Division in 2003–04."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Hughes_1.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1976-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.67708666666667
  currentAttention:     4
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лі Г'юз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لي هيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لى هيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B2"
    title: "لی هاقز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "لی هاگز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hughes"
    title: "Lee Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8"
    title: "Хьюз, Ли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2458070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump