Education
Despite being born in Glasgow, he moved to Shrewsbury at a very young age and attended Sundorne School and Sports College.
Despite being born in Glasgow, he moved to Shrewsbury at a very young age and attended Sundorne School and Sports College.
He is predominantly a left-sided midfielder. He has had spells in the English lower leagues, playing for teams including Shrewsbury Town and Hereford United. This was his sole appearance in the 2005-2006 season.
At the end of the season, two years into his three-year scholarship programme, he was handed a one-year professional contract.
He played seven times in 2006-2007, and sat on the bench for the League Two playoff final at Wembley. In July 2007, he signed a new one-year contract.
Leslie scored his first senior goal for Shrewsbury on the opening day of 2007-2008, scoring late in the match as the Shrews out 4–0 winners against Lincoln City at Sincil Bank. In February 2008 he signed a contract extension to keep him at the club until the summer of 2009.
He made a total of 21 appearances over the course of the season, and started to establish himself within the first team
The following season Leslie made 33 appearances, but was sent off in the League Two playoff semi-final against Bury. This meant that he missed the final at Wembley. At the end of the season he signed a new two-year contract.
In 2009-2010 Leslie found some goalscoring form, as he scored six times in 35 appearances.
He then returned to Shrewsbury for their league two play-off campaign, making a lively cameo off the bench in the semi-final second leg game against Torquay United. On Friday 27 January 2012 it was announced Steve Leslie had left Shrewsbury by mutual consent and joined Conference side Wrexham, becoming Andy Morrells first signing since he was appointed manager.
After only managing 13 league appearances and one goal he was then released by Wrexham in the summer of 2012. On 7 August 2012 he joined Telford.
He made his AFC Telford United debut against Barrow, where he played 90mins in a 0–0 draw.
In July 2013, he joined Torquay United on trial, but failed to earn a contract. Leslie joined Worcester City in November 2013, but left in March 2014 having deciding to emigrate to Australia. where he became a coach. In September 2014 after returning to the United Kingdom, he re-signed for former club Worcester City, and later that year moved on to Rushall Olympic.
Leslie joined Solihull Moors ahead of the 2015−16 season.