Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984)

Alex Scott
MBE
Scott in 2019
Personal information
Full name Alexandra Virina Scott[1]
Date of birth (1984-10-14) 14 October 1984 (age 39)[1]
Place of birth London, England
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[1]
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
1992–1999 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Arsenal
2004–2005 Birmingham City 15 (2)
2005–2009 Arsenal 72 (6)
2009–2011 Boston Breakers 55 (1)
2012–2018 Arsenal 76 (6)
Total 218 (15)
International career
2004–2017 England 140 (12)
2012 Great Britain 5 (0)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  England
FIFA Women's World Cup
Third place 2015 Canada
UEFA Women's Championship
Runner-up 2009 Finland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexandra Virina Scott MBE (born 14 October 1984) is an English sports presenter, pundit, and former professional footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the England national team and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

At club level, Scott has had three separate spells with Arsenal, punctuated with a season at Birmingham City in 2004–05 and three years in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) with Boston Breakers. She scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup Final.

In 2019, Scott was inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame.[2] As of 2019, Scott is a pundit for BBC Sport and Sky Sports and was featured during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[3][4] She also covers the English Premier League.[5]

In October 2023, she won The Sport Award in the 2023 Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards.[6]

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015: List of players: England" (PDF). FIFA. 6 July 2015. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Alex Scott". National Football Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Alex Scott: Ex-England defender receives sexist abuse 'every single day' on social media". BBC. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. ^ "England need to be better - Alex Scott". BBC. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. ^ Bate, Adam (7 December 2020). "Arsenal's defeat to Tottenham: What is Mikel Arteta's style of play now?". Sky Sports. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  6. ^ Attitude Staff (12 October 2023). "Here are all the winners from the 2023 Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, powered by Jaguar". www.attitude.co.uk.