| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1988-03-13)13 March 1988 (age 37) | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Everton Women (interim head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Everton | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2008 | Bradford City | 13 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | FC Halifax Town | 100 | (13) |
| 2011–2012 | Kidderminster Harriers | 15 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | →Vauxhall Motors (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2012 | Vauxhall Motors | 2 | (0) |
| 2012 | Altrincham | 11 | (2) |
| Total | 143 | (16) | |
| International career | |||
| 2003–2004 | England U16 | 5 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | England U17 | 6 | (0) |
| 2006 | England U18 | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2026– | Everton Women | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Scott Phelan (born 13 March 1988) is an Englishfootball coach and former professional player who is the interim head coach ofWomen's Super League sideEverton Women.
Born inLiverpool, Phelan was a trainee atEverton, captaining the under 18 and reserve sides,[1] until he was released in 2007 without making a senior appearance. He was handed a trial atBradford City, after which he was handed a one-year contract to become the third young midfielder to joinLeague Two sideBradford City from the Toffees in recent years, followingTom Kearney andSteven Schumacher.[2][3] He made his league debut when he came on as a late substitute in Bradford's 2–1 victory overWrexham on 25 August 2007.[4][5] He played 15 games for Bradford, 12 of which have been in the league, but the last came in December 2007,[4] before he was one of 13 players to be released on 29 April 2008.[6] He played one more game in the club's final game of the season, four days later, as City lost 2–1 toWycombe Wanderers,[7][8] bringing his total number of appearances for the club to 16.[4]
After four months without a club, Phelan joinedNorthern Premier League Division One North-sideFC Halifax Town in September 2008.[1] Phelan was handed his Halifax debut a day later in a 7–1 victory overSalford City as a second-half substitute,[9] a role he had for the next three games.[10]
In May 2011 he signed forKidderminster Harriers after the expiry of his contract with Halifax.[11]
He joinedVauxhall Motors on loan in December 2011.[12] He was released byKidderminster Harriers in February 2012, joining Vauxhall Motors for two weeks, before joiningAltrincham.[13] He quit playing in August 2012 to become a full-time coach at Everton.[14]
On 4 February 2026, it was announced that Phelan had been appointed as the interim head coach ofWomen's Super League sideEverton for the remainder of the2025-26 season, replacingBrian Sørensen.[15][16] Speaking about the switch to managing in thewomen's game, he said "People have told me that that the women's team is very important – it's not just a recent thing with the growth of the game and how the profile has improved – the presence of the women's team at Everton has been here for a long time."[17] His first match as head coach was a 1–0 win overLondon City Lionesses on 8 February 2026.[18] Following Everton's 1–0 win againstWest Ham United on 15 February 2026, Phelan became the first head coach in the club's history to lead Everton to two successive victories in the WSL.[19]
