Steve Lowndes

{{short description|Welsh footballer}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Steve Lowndes

| image =

| fullname = Stephen Robert Lowndes{{Hugman|12015|accessdate=8 July 2020}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|06|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Newport, Wales

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/54 54] |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/54}}

| position = Right / Left midfield

| youthyears1 = 1974–1976

| youthclubs1 = Monmouth Town

| years1 = 1977–1983

| clubs1 = Newport County

| caps1 = 208

| goals1 = 39

| years2 = 1983–1986

| clubs2 = Millwall

| caps2 = 96

| goals2 = 10

| years3 = 1986–1990

| clubs3 = Barnsley

| caps3 = 116

| goals3 = 20

| years4 = 1990–1992

| clubs4 = Hereford United

| caps4 = 49

| goals4 = 4

| years5 = 1992–1996

| clubs5 = Newport County

| caps5 = 150

| goals5 = 12

| totalcaps = 617

| totalgoals = 85

| nationalyears1 = 1983–1988

| nationalteam1 = Wales

| nationalcaps1 = 10

| nationalgoals1 = 0

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Stephen Robert 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 to the Football League Third Division, won the 1980 Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup.[http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/newport/newport.html Newport County A-Z of transfers]

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