Timothy Martin Lees (born 24 January 1986) is an English football player and football coach. He is currently interim manager of Northern Premier League Division One West club Bury.

Lees progressed through the Centre of Excellence at Everton and Bolton Wanderers before being released at schoolboy ages.^[2] His recorded semi-professional clubs include Stalybridge Celtic,^[3][4][5] Wingate & Finchley, AFC Hayes,^[6] and Radcliffe Borough.^[7]

Lees was employed as Technical Coach for Pepsi in 2007, working on worldwide events with players including David Beckham, Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho. In 2008 he worked as Youth Development Phase Lead at England's first full-time training model at Watford^[2] FC Academy with the 12-16 age groups. In 2010 he moved to Wigan Athletic as Head of Youth Development Phase working under Roberto Martinez for three years overseeing the club's transition from Centre of Excellence to Category two academy. In 2013 he took an offer to move to Liverpool football club^[8] as part of Brendan Rodgers' academy restructure working alongside Michael Beale, Pepijn Lijnders and Alex Inglethorpe.

Lees was recruited by Kevin Kalish to become Academy Director at North America's St Louis City SC in 2015. Lees managed the u17 and u19 USA Development Programme and was also First Team coach at St Louis. In the club announcement, President Kevin Kalish said “Our academy staff visited Liverpool's academy in England and in Tim, we have found one of the very best youth developers in the world. He has led the pathway of dozens of players who have gone on to play both Internationally and at Premier League level and Tim will lead our pursuit in becoming the number one club in the country.” The club went on to produce several Youth Internationals, homegrown MLS players and won their first US National Championship in 2017.

Lees returned to England in 2019 during the Covid-19 epidemic and became First Team Coach at Warrington Rylands, owned by Wayne Rooney's agent Paul Stretford, winning back-to-back promotions and the FA Vase at Wembley Stadium.

In September 2023, Lees followed Dave McNabb following his appointment as manager of North West Counties Football League Premier Division club Bury, joining as his assistant.^[9] On 2 December 2025, he was appointed caretaker manager following a restructuring of the club's football staff.^[10] On 17 December 2025, following the appointment and swift departure of Michael Jolley, he was appointed interim manager for the remainder of the 2025–26 season.^[11]

Lees played for England semi-professional Budweiser team at the FIFA 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, selected and managed by Jamie Redknapp.^[2][12] He was later chosen to represent Great Britain in the Channel 4 2006 TV series The Pepsi Max World Challenge, chosen from a pool of 17,000 entrants and open to players not signed to professional football clubs.^[2] The series had a $100,000 prize for the winning country and involved David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Carlos Puyol, Roberto Carlos and Alessandro Nesta. The show, presented and narrated by Vernon Kay, took place in Rio De Janeiro, Milan, London, Madrid and Cairo. Lees has also directed and choreographed several football commercials and advertisements.