Scott Rickards

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Scott Rickards
Personal information
Full name Scott Rickards
Date of birth (1981-11-03) 3 November 1981 (age 42)
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*
YearsTeamApps(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 professional footballer, who works as an academy coach for Derby County.

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Career

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.

Coaching and later career

Rainworth Miners Welfare

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]

Mansfield Town and Tamworth

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.

Derby County, return to Tamworth and Atherstone

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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References

  1. ↑ Three more for Law
  2. ↑ SCOTT RICKARDS APPOINTED MANAGER, pitchero.com, 23 September 2013
  3. ↑ Rickards Steps Down At Wrens, betvictornorthernpremier.co.uk, 14 August 2014
  4. ↑ Mansfield Town unveil youth plans, news-journal.co.uk, 16 April 2015
  5. ↑ Gate Make Impressive Recruits, nonleague.pitchero.com, 23 May 2015
  6. ↑ TOP JOB FOR DODDS, highgateunited.co.uk, 19 May 2019
  7. ↑ Rickards Is Back, thelambs.co.uk, 9 February 2018
  8. ↑ Scott Rickards departs from Tamworth FC, birminghammail.co.uk, 22 May 2018
  9. ↑ It's a Derby County homecoming for talented coach Scott, birminghammail.co.uk, 20 September 2019
  10. ↑ **CLUB STATEMENT**, pitchero.com, 28 October 2019
  11. ↑ Non league manager resigns over alleged racist abuse from fans in three successive matches, fanbanter.co.uk, 16 February 2020
  12. ↑ COTON GREEN 1-2 KNOWLE FC: THE MATCH REPORT & IMAGES..., themowdog.blogspot.com, 27 September 2020
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