From 11 to 13 years old, Bazeley attended weekly training sessions with the School of Excellence – a coaching scheme run by the FA.
Watford's youth team coach Colin Lee was appointed the club's manager in March 1990 and he gave Bazeley his first-team debut in the final match of the 1989–90 season, bringing the 17-year-old on as a substitute against Hull City.
Bazeley signed his first professional contract prior to the start of the 1991–92 season and in September 1991 scored his first senior goal in a 3–0 win away at Barnsley.
Watford began the following season under a new manager in Glenn Roeder, but a medial collateral ligament saw Bazeley only make a total of 10 appearances in the campaign.
"[9] Bazeley signed with the re-invented New Zealand Knights for the new Australian A-League, alongside former Wolves and Walsall teammate Neil Emblen.
Bazeley played every minute of the club's 21 A-League matches in the 2005–06 season, and took over the captaincy from Danny Hay when the defender transferred to Perth Glory mid-season.
He became assistant of the club's senior team in June 2009, working under his former Wolves teammate Emblen, the side's head coach.
Having continued in the role through the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico, where the side again reached the knock-out phases, Bazeley was appointed head coach of the team in June 2012.
[14] In April 2013 his side won all five matches at the 2013 OFC U-17 Championship to qualify for the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
[18] Bazeley led the U-20 team to a victory at 2016 OFC U-20 Championship in Vanuatu, qualifying for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
New Zealand lost the two-legged play-off, held in November 2017, 2–0 on aggregate to Peru to miss out on qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
[22] In April 2020 Bazeley joined A-League side Newcastle Jets as assistant coach to his former Wolves teammate Carl Robinson.