Amari'i Bell

📖 About

Amari'i Kyren Bell (born 5 May 1994) is a professional footballer is a left back who plays for club Charlton Athletic and the Jamaica national team. 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. He was released by Luton Town following the conclusion of the 2024–25 campaign. 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 and the 2024 Copa América.

International career

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, but he withdrew through injury. He qualified for Jamaica because his grandparents are from that country. In March 2021 he was one of six uncapped English-born players to receive a call-up. 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. He was a member of the squad for the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and played in all three group matches, but not in the quarter-final defeat by the United States. 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.

Honours

Blackburn Rovers • EFL League One runner-up: 2017–18 Luton Town • EFL Championship play-offs: 2023 Individual • PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 League One