Personal information | |||
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Full name | Scott Rickards | ||
Date of birth | 3 November 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Sutton Coldfield, England | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Derby County (academy coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
Derby County | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2003 | Tamworth | 20 | (3) |
2003–2004 | Kidderminster Harriers | 18 | (1) |
2004–2005 | Redditch United | 31 | (12) |
2005–2006 | Tamworth | 7 | (0) |
2006 | Nuneaton Borough | 5 | (1) |
2006–2006 | Redditch United | 21 | (9) |
2007 | Alfreton Town | 8 | (1) |
2007–2008 | Brackley Town | 0 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Redditch United | 0 | (0) |
2009 | Solihull Moors | 9 | (1) |
2009–2010 | Halesowen Town | 42 | (6) |
2010–2012 | Barwell | 30 | (3) |
2012 | → Bolehall Swifts (loan) | 5 | (1) |
2012 | Chasetown | 4 | (1) |
2013–2014 | Rainworth Miners Welfare | ||
2014 | Walsall Wood | 1 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Barwell | 3 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → AFC Mansfield (loan) | 7 | (2) |
2015 | Highgate United | ||
2015 | Coleshill Town | 1 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Bolehall Swifts | 5 | (1) |
2016 | Highgate United | 4 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Walsall Wood | 3 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Highgate United | 14 | (1) |
2018 | Heather St John's | 4 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Highgate United | 7 | (0) |
2019–2020 | Atherstone Town | 1 | (0) |
2020 | Coton Green | ||
Managerial career | |||
2013 | Rainworth Miners Welfare (caretaker) | ||
2013–2014 | Rainworth Miners Welfare (player-manager) | ||
2018 | Tamworth (assistant) | ||
2019 | Highgate United (assistant) | ||
2019–2020 | Atherstone Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Scott Rickards (born 3 November 1981 in Sutton Coldfield, England) is a former professional footballer, who works as an academy coach for Derby County.
Rickards left Redditch United to join Alfreton Town on 9 August 2007. [1]
Rickards then went on to play for Halesowen Town having signed in 2009.
In the summer 2013, Rickards joined Rainworth Miners Welfare and was later appointed caretaker manager. Rickards impressed the management committee in his short tenure as caretaker manager and on 23 September the club confirmed, that he had been hired permanently and also would continue to play for the club. [2] In August 2014, Rickard resigned from his position for personal reasons. [3]
In March 2015, Rickards was appointed Head Of Recruitment and academy coach at Mansfield Town [4] and two months later, he also joined Highgate United as a player, where he also later functioned as a 1st team coach/assistant. [5] [6]
In the summer 2017, he was hired as an academy coach at his former club Tamworth and was in February 2018 promoted to 1st team assistant which he would combine with his existing full-time youth development role at Mansfield Town. [7] He left his position in Tamworth in the summer 2018 [8] and Mansfield in the summer 2019.
In September 2019 it was confirmed, that Rickards had returned to his former childhood club Derby County in an under-13s coaching role and at the same time, he also returned to another of his former clubs, Tamworth, to work with the club's academy. [9]
On 28 October 2019, Rickards was also appointed manager of Atherstone Town. [10] In mid-February 2020, Rickards resigned after racist abuse from fans in three successive matches. [11]
Following his departure from Atherstone Town, Rickards turned out for Midland League Division Two side Coton Green. [12]
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