James Alexander Lawrence (born 22 August 1992) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Dutch Eredivisie club Almere City.

Lawrence has previously played for St. Pauli, Anderlecht, AS Trenčín and youth teams at Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers, Sparta Rotterdam and Ajax.

[3] Lawrence's early youth career included London clubs Enfield, Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers.

[4] In 2009 Lawrence left Haarlem to join Ajax with whom he won the Netherlands U19 First Division Championship in 2010–11 and was coached by Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp.

[5] Lawrence transferred to AS Trenčín on 13 August 2014 aged 21 and scored on his debut the same day in a Slovak Cup match against ŠK Strážske.

[7] In May 2015 AS Trenčín became Fortuna Liga Champions for the first time[8] with Lawrence thus achieving the league and cup double in his first senior season.

[11] Two seasons later, on 16 August 2018, Lawrence's role in the elimination of Feyenoord from the UEFA Europa League qualifying round brought him to the attention of Anderlecht who went on to negotiate his transfer from Trenčín in just 13 days later.