Scott Sellars


Scott Sellars is an English former professional footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League playing as a winger for Leeds United, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United, Bolton Wanderers, Huddersfield Town and Mansfield Town. He represented England at under-21 level.
He is currently Head of Academy Player Development at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has previously been assistant manager at Chesterfield and academy coach at Manchester City. He has also worked as the head coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers U23's, as well as assistant head coach under caretaker manager Rob Edwards for Wolves' first team.

Career

After starting his career at Leeds United, Sellars established himself in the Second Division with Blackburn Rovers where he spent six years. After three play-off heartbreaks, Sellars finally found success in the 1991-92 Play-off Final which earned Rovers promotion to the newly formed Premier League. However, that would prove to be his last match for Rovers as he joined his old club Leeds who had just won the First Division.
On 24 April 1993 he scored the winning goal for the Magpies in their 1–0 win over local rivals Sunderland in Division One at St James's Park, which meant that they only needed a point from their final three games to be sure of promotion.
Sellars joined Manchester City as Academy coach in October 2009 after previously holding the role of assistant manager at Chesterfield in the League Two. He was sacked on 11 April 2014 after a "difference of footballing opinion with the current regime" and fears over the club's homegrown quota.
In July 2014 he was appointed to the coaching staff at Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.
In March 2019 Sellars applied for, and was appointed to, the post of Head of Academy at Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, succeeding Gareth Prosser in the role.