page_title: Sol Campbell
section_title: Return to Arsenal
hierarchical_section_title: Sol Campbell / Club career / Return to Arsenal
caption_attribution_description: Ryan Shawcross of Stoke City, January 2010.
context_page_description: Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of League Two club Southend United. He previously managed Macclesfield Town from November 2018 to August 2019. A centre back, he had a 20-year career playing in the Premier League and an 11-year international career with the England national team.
  Born in east London to Jamaican parents, Campbell began his career with Tottenham Hotspur in December 1992. He spent nine years at Spurs, scoring 10 goals in 255 appearances, and captaining the team to victory in the 1999 Football League Cup Final against Leicester City. In 2001, he joined Tottenham's North London rivals Arsenal on a free transfer, and as a result has remained a deeply unpopular figure amongst Spurs supporters. In his five years and 195 appearances at Arsenal, he won two Premier League winners medals and two FA Cup winners medals, encompassing the 2001–02 league and FA Cup double, and being part of the team that became known as The Invincibles for their undefeated 2003–04 Premier League campaign. He scored Arsenal's only goal in their 2–1 defeat to Barcelona in the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.
context_section_description: Campbell began training with the Arsenal side in mid-October 2009 in a bid to maintain his fitness ahead of the January transfer window. On 15 January, he re-signed with the club. It was announced he would wear the number 31 shirt. Nine days later, he made his second debut for the Gunners in an FA Cup defeat to Stoke City. On 18 February, he scored his first goal in his second stint at the club with a headed goal against Porto in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16. Due to injuries to Thomas Vermaelen and William Gallas towards the end of the season, he found himself starting frequently for Arsenal.
caption: Campbell marking Stoke City's Ryan Shawcross in 2010.
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