Scott Sellars (born 27 November 1965) is an ex English football coach and former professional

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who is ex Technical Director at

Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, England, which compete in the . The club has played at Molineux Stadium since moving from Dudley Road in 1889. The club's ...

. As a player, he was a winger who made more than 500 appearances, notably playing in the

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with

Leeds United Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of England's football league system, and plays its home matches at Elland Road S ...

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and

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

. He also played football with

Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second tier of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. T ...

, in

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with

AGF Aarhus Aarhus Gymnastikforening (; commonly known as AGF ), is a professional sports club based in Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark. Founded in 1880, it is one of the oldest clubs in the country and gymnastics and fencing are featured as its main sports. Howev ...

and in the

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Huddersfield Town Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . The team have played home games at the Kirklees Stadium since moving from Leeds Road in 1994. The ...

and

Mansfield Town Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Stags', they ...

. He was capped three times at England at under-21 level. Since retirement he has previously been assistant manager at

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and academy coach at

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. 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. He is the ex Technical Director at

Playing career

After starting his career at

, Sellars established himself in the

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with

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

. 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

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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.

Coaching career

Sellars joined

as Academy coach in October 2009 after previously holding the role of assistant manager at

in the

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and U18s coach at

Sheffield United Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . They are nicknamed "the Blades" due to Sheffield's history of cutlery production. The team have played home games at ...

in 2004-05. 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.

Personal life

His son is Conor Sellars. In January 2013, Sellars pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. Sellars had been driving home from work after returning from Dubai, where he had been coaching Manchester City's youth team, when he crashed his car and killed a motorcyclist. Sellars received a six-month suspended sentence and was ordered to do 300 hours of community service.

Honours

Individual *

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: 1989–90 Second Division, 1991–92 Second Division

References

External links

Leeds fan profile
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