Geoff Scott (footballer)

Scott was born in Birmingham, and played began his career with Aston Villa. He failed to earn a professional contract with Villa and played non-league football for Kings Heath, Solihull Borough and Highgate United before joining Stoke City in 1977.{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |page=93 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}{{cite book |editor-first=Tony |editor-last=Williams |title=Official Football Association Non-League Directory |year=1988 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |pages=516, 519 |isbn=1-869833-09-0}} He made his Football League debut on 22 October 1977 as a substitute in a 2–1 defeat away at Blackburn Rovers. He played regularly for Stoke, making 78 league appearances in two and a half years,{{cite web |url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/stoke-city-fc/geoff-scott-6757/1976-77-1979-80_a17981/ |title=Geoff Scott: Stoke City FC |publisher=Sporting Heroes |accessdate=5 April 2012}} and was part of the side that gained promotion to the First Division in the 1978–79 season.{{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:LSTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=12539E12B2274390&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815 |format=reprint hosted at NewsBank |title=Stoke win the hard way |work=The Sunday Times |first=Greg |last=Struthers |date=21 December 2008 |accessdate=11 June 2009 |location=London}} He played 16 First Division games before signing for Leicester City as the replacement for Dennis Rofe who had recently joined Chelsea.{{cite news |work=The Times |title=Bruges show interest in Ipswich's Muhren |date=19 February 1980 |page=10}}

Scott spent two years at Leicester, and was part of the side that won the Second Division title in the 1979–80 season. He played 39 league games, before signing for Birmingham City. Scott remained at Birmingham only a few months, then played for Charlton Athletic, Middlesbrough, Northampton Town and Cambridge United, where his League career ended because of injury.{{cite news |url=http://www.sportspromedia.com/notes_and_insights/geoff_scott_is_leading_the_x_factor/ |title=Geoff Scott is leading the X Factor |first=David |last=Cushnan |work=SportsPro |date=16 November 2009 |accessdate=5 April 2012 |archive-date=23 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123103629/http://sportspromedia.com/notes_and_insights/geoff_scott_is_leading_the_x_factor/ |url-status=dead }} He returned to the Birmingham area and played for Solihull Borough, Moor Green and Highgate United, becoming player-manager of the latter club in the 1988–89 season.

After retiring from the game, Scott took a degree in business studies and worked in the telecommunications industry. He returned to football when appointed secretary of the Stoke City Old Boys Association, and became chief executive of Xpro, an organisation supporting the health and welfare of former professional footballers.{{cite news|url=http://whydelilah.adaptive.co.uk/news/22_Apr_2009/Ex-stars+join+forces+to+aid+club%E2%80%99s+struggling+heroes.html |title=Ex-stars join forces to aid club's struggling heroes |first=Martin |last=Spinks |work=The Sentinel |location=Stoke-on-Trent |date=22 April 2009 |accessdate=5 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Scott suffered from cancer in his later years and died on 17 October 2018 at the age of 61.{{cite web |title=Stoke City promotion hero Geoff Scott dies aged 61 |url=https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/geoff-scott-stoke-city-birmingham-2120709 |website=Stoke Sentinel |date=17 October 2018 |accessdate=17 October 2018}}

Source:{{ENFA}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Other{{ref label|Other|A

}

!colspan="2"|Total

|-

!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals

|-

|rowspan="4"|Stoke City

|1977–78

|Second Division

|24||2||2||0||0||0||0||0||26||2

|-

|1978–79

|Second Division

|38||0||1||0||4||0||0||0||43||0

|-

|1979–80

|First Division

|16||1||0||0||3||0||0||0||19||1

|-

!colspan="2"|Total

!78!!3!!3!!0!!7!!0!!0!!0!!88!!3

|-

|rowspan="4"|Leicester City

|1979–80

|Second Division

|11||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||11||0

|-

|1980–81

|First Division

|21||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||23||0

|-

|1981–82

|Second Division

|7||0||0||0||3||0||0||0||10||0

|-

!colspan="2"|Total

!39!!0!!2!!0!!3!!0!!0!!0!!43!!0

|-

|rowspan="3"|Birmingham City

|1981–82

|First Division

|15||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||15||0

|-

|1982–83

|First Division

|4||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||4||0

|-

!colspan="2"|Total

!19!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!19!!0

|-

|rowspan="2"|Charlton Athletic

|1982–83

|Second Division

|2||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||2||0

|-

|1983–84

|Second Division

|0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0

|-

|Middlesbrough

|1984–85

|Second Division

|2||0||0||0||1||0||0||0||3||0

|-

|Northampton Town

|1984–85

|Fourth Division

|17||0||3||0||0||0||2||0||22||0

|-

|Cambridge United

|1985–86

|Fourth Division

|19||0||1||0||0||0||2||0||22||0

|-

!colspan="3"|Career Total

!176!!3!!9!!0!!11!!0!!4!!0!!200!!3

|}

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:A. {{note|Other}} The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League Trophy.

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; Stoke City

• Football League Second Division third-place promotion: 1978–79

; Leicester City

• Football League Second Division champions: 1979–80

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