- Paul Robinson
Paul Robinson (born 20 November 1978) is an English former professional footballer, who recently played for Horden Colliery Welfare in the Northern League Division One. Robinson is a much-travelled player, having featured for no fewer than a dozen teams in his career. Due to his frequent moving, he has only passed thirty league appearances for one club, during his time with Hartlepool United. Robinson was born in Sunderland and began his career as a trainee with Darlington, …
- Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock (born December 1, 1948) is a football manager, formerly of Sheffield United. He was appointed as manager of Sheffield United in December 1999 and resigned on 2007-05-16. Warnock was born in Sheffield and is a lifelong fan of the Blades.
- Martin Paterson
Martin Paterson is an English footballer, who played as a striker for Grimsby Town during the 2006-2007 season on loan from Football League Championship club Stoke City. He has also played at international level for Northern Ireland's U21 side. Paterson made his début for Stoke as a late substitute for Chris Greenacre in the 2-0 win over Plymouth Argyle on 16 April2005. His first start came in March 2006 against Leeds United and he hit his first goal six months later, …
- Billy Sharp
William Louis "Billy" Sharp (born 5 February 1986 in Sheffield) is an English professional footballer currently playing a striker role at Sheffield United.
- Nigel Adkins
Nigel Howard Adkins (born 11 March 1965 in Birkenhead, England) an English former footballer and is the current football manager of Scunthorpe United.
- Andy Butler
Andy Butler is an English professional footballer currently playing for Scunthorpe United. He is a very good defender and is a goal threat at every set piece we have with his dominating strength in the air. He has currently made 84 appearances for the club, scoring 13 times. In 2006, he spent 4 games at Grimsby Town on loan, in order to build up his match fitness.
- Andy Keogh
Andrew Declan "Andy" Keogh (born 16 May, 1986 in Dublin, Ireland) is an association football player. He plays for the Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Good friends with Chris Myers and Luke Williams who are fans of the club. A Republic of Ireland International, Keogh is traditionally a striker, but has been know to play various other roles including an attacking midfielder playing behind the strikers, and also, under Brian Laws at Scunthorpe United F.C., …
- Paul Hayes
Paul Edward Hayes (born December 9 1983 in Dagenham, England) is an English footballer with Football League Championship side Scunthorpe United. Hayes grew up in East London and went to Barclay Junior School in Leyton, where he captained the school football team from the age of 7. Hayes started his footballing career as a school boy with Norwich City where he spent 3 years, before signing for Scunthorpe United in 2002. He made over 115 appearances, scoring 33 goals.
- Jermaine Beckford
Jermaine Beckford (born December 9, 1983) is a professional footballer currently playing for Leeds United. Leeds United beat off competition from Crystal Palace (where he had a trial and played for their reserve team), Charlton Athletic, Sunderland, Southampton and Watford to secure his transfer from Wealdstone in March 2006. He had previously been part of the youth set-up at Chelsea before being released and later joining Wealdstone.
- Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor OBE (born September 15 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a football manager and a former player. Taylor grew up in the industrial steel town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, a town with which he still has many connections and regards as his hometown. The son of a sports journalist with The "Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph", Graham found his love of the beautiful game in the stands of the "Old Showground" watching Scunthorpe United, …
- Nathan Stanton
Nathan Stanton is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Rochdale. He signed on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in the summer of 2006 on a year long contract. A former Scunthorpe United trainee, Nathan made 243 appearances for the Iron (plus 21 as a sub) in 7 seasons. He scored 1 goal for the club. Since his debut in 1998 a series of consistent performances for Scunthorpe quickly established himself as a fan favourite.
- Marcus Williams
Marcus Williams (born 08 April 1986, Doncaster) is an English professional football player for Scunthorpe United. He signed for the club on 1 July 2003 and wears the number 17 shirt. He has played 69 games in total for the club, 49 in the league and coming off the bench for 6. He plays left back for the club and is well known for his pace and runs up the left wing. As well as his team mates Billy Sharp, …
- Andy Crosby
Andy Crosby (born 3 March 1973) is defender who plays for Scunthorpe United but has enjoyed a glittering career elsewhere. In his prime he was a young learning defender at Leeds United but was released to Doncaster Rovers after failing to break through. During his time at Doncaster, Andy made a name for himself as being a typical industrious English defender. He wasn't there long and attracted the attention of Darlington who immediately adorned himself to the fans.
- Jim Goodwin
James "Jim" Goodwin (born November 20 1981 in Waterford, Ireland) is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Scunthorpe United. Born in Waterford, he began his professonal career with Celtic F.C. before moving to Stockport County F.C.. He was capped once at senior level by the Republic of Ireland.
- Kevan Hurst
Kevan Hurst is a footballer who plays for Scunthorpe United as a midfielder, having signed from Sheffield United in the summer of 2007 for £300,000 Hurst's versatility is one of his many talents - he can play all across the midfield or forward line. He made his first senior appearance in the League Cup against QPR on September 23 2003 with his only league appearance for the Blades coming on September 25, …
- Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor (born 9 December 1966) is a former goalkeeper for Derby County. A one-time apprentice coal miner, Taylor was signed from Mile Oak Rovers as understudy to Peter Shilton. After several short-term loan deals at lower-league clubs he became the Rams number one between the posts but suffered a double leg break in a game vs Southend United. Taylor missed the promotion season to the Premiership and lost his place to Russell Hoult and Mart Poom.
- Ian Baraclough
Ian Baraclough (born 4 December 1970 in Leicester) is a footballer who currently plays in midfield for Scunthorpe United. Ian started his career with Leicester City and has also played for Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Mansfield Town, Notts County and QPR. Ian signed for QPR in March 1998 making his debut against Stoke City the same month. Ian played 125 league games for QPR scoring 1 goal.
- Kevin Ellison
Kevin Ellison is a footballer, currently playing for Chester City FC. Ellison began playing non-league football for Southport for whom he made 2+2 appearances in the 1996/7 season. He then moved on to Chorley before joining Welsh Premier League side Conwy United where he spent the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons, making a total of 31+6 league appearances, scoring seven times. In the summer of 1999 he joined Altrincham for £2000.
- Richard Hinds
Richard Hinds (born 22 August 1980 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is a defender who plays club football at Sheffield Wednesday.
- Steve Foster
Stephen "Steve" Foster (born December 3, 1974 in Mansfield) is a professional footballer currently playing for Darlington. He began his career at Mansfield Town, where he was released after making only a handful of appearances. He later played for Conference sides Telford United and Woking, before returning to The Football League with Bristol Rovers in 1997. After five seasons with Bristol Rovers, Foster joined Doncaster Rovers, …
- Daniel McBreen
Daniel James McBreen (born March 23, 1977 in Burnley, England) is an Australian footballer currently playing for Scunthorpe United. His previous clubs include Falkirk, with whom he scored 19 goals in 42 games, Universitatea Craiova of Romania, plus Newcastle Jets and Adelaide City in his homeland. At the end of the 2006/07 season McBreen was told by Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins that he was free to look for a deal with another club, …
- Josh Lillis
Josh Lillis is an English professional footballer currently playing for Scunthorpe United, as a goalkeeper. He has so far made one league appearance for the club, against Millwall when regular keeper Joe Murphy was suspended. He is the son of ex-Iron player Mark Lillis.
- Richard Money
Richard Money (born on 13 October 1955 in Lowestoft, England) is current manager of the English League 2 side Walsall. Prior to managing Walsall, he was manager of the Australian football club the Newcastle United Jets in the inaugural season of the A-League. He played as a defender for Liverpool and Fulham among others, during the 70's and 80's and was capped by the England B-team. He has also managed Scunthorpe United in the early 1990s, …
- Sam Vokes
Sam Vokes (born October 21, 1989) is an English football player with Welsh dual nationality. He currently plays for Bournemouth. He studied at Priestlands School, and is currently at Brockenhurst College. He made his debut for Bournemouth on 5 December 2006, against Nottingham Forest. Bournemouth won the game 2-0 and gave Forest their first away defeat of the season, …
- Graham Alexander
Graham Alexander (born 10 October 1971 in Coventry, England) is a professional footballer and the captain of Championship team Preston North End.
- Jamie McCombe
Jamie McCombe (born January 1, 1983 in Pontefract) is an English professional footballer. He currently plays as a defender with Bristol City. McCombe began his career as a trainee with Scunthorpe United, turning professional in August 2001. He had a spell with Halifax Town on loan from October 2003 and moved to Lincoln City on a free transfer in March 2004. He joined Bristol City in May 2006.
- Andy Dawson
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Dawson (born October 20 1978 in Northallerton) is a professional footballer currently playing for Hull City. Dawson is a defender who joined Hull City on 16 May 2003 on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United. He is the elder brother of Michael Dawson (currently at Tottenham Hotspur) and Kevin Dawson (formerly of Chesterfield F.C.). Like his brothers, Andy started his professional career at Nottingham Forest, …
- Peter Beagrie
Peter Sidney Beagrie (born 28 November, 1965 in Middlesbrough, England) is one of a small breed of traditional English 'left-wingers'. Dribbling and crossing were Peter's main attributes and he could shake off a defender with a drop of a shoulder. Even without the pace and agility of youth he still shows the ability to beat defenders quite easily. Being quite the set-piece specialist, Peter also shows the finishing, …
- Neil MacKenzie
Neil MacKenzie (born 15 April, 1976 in Birmingham) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder. He current plays for Notts County. In 2005 MacKenzie signed for Scunthorpe United, after impressing whilst on loan from Macclesfield Town. During the 2006-07 he found first-team opportunities limited, and was loaned to Hereford United during the first half of the season. After impressing, he was due to stay with the Bulls until the New Year, …
- David Edwards
David Alexander Edwards is a Welsh footballer who currently plays for English League One club Luton Town. He is a midfielder and was signed from Shrewsbury Town in June 2007. He started as an apprentice at his local club, Shrewsbury Town, and made his league début as Town, already relegated, said farewell to the Football League in the last match of the 2002-03 season. He came on for fellow Welshman Jamie Tolley as a late substitute but failed to improve the scoreline, …
- Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy (born 21 August 1981) is an Irish football goalkeeper for Scunthorpe United.
- Tom Evans
Thomas Raymond "Tom" Evans (born December 31 1976 in Doncaster, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for York City.
- Peter Till
Peter Till (born September 7, 1985) is an English footballer currently playing for Grimsby Town. He has come through the Blues Academy set-up since joining the club as a schoolboy and earned a new two-year professional contract in the summer of 2005. Till operates primarily as a right winger but he can also play up front. The Birmingham born player was handed a squad number by Steve Bruce in 2004 after impressing the Blues boss.
- Michael Rose
Michael Rose (born July 28, 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English football player. He is currently a defender for Stockport County. He began his career as a trainee at Man Utd where he was released before making an appearance. He soon joined Chester, moving on to Hereford and then to Yeovil, where he spent spells on loan at Cheltenham and Scunthorpe. In the summer of 2006 he agreed to join Stockport on a two-year deal.
- Neil Cox
Neil Cox (born October 8, 1971 in Scunthorpe) is a professional footballer and plays as a central defender for Crewe Alexandra. Cox signed for Crewe in June 2006 after being released by Cardiff City. Cox has also played for Scunthorpe United, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Watford, Bolton and Cardiff City. He has also been capped at Under-21 level by England.
- Craig Shakespeare
Craig Shakespeare (born Birmingham, 26 October, 1963) is a former professional footballer who went on to become a football coach. He is currently reserve team coach at West Bromwich Albion F.C..
- Gary Hooper
Gary Hooper (born January 26, 1988) is an English footballer currently playing as a forward for Southend United. He began his career with Conference side Grays Athletic, scoring eight times in 37 Conference games in the 2005-06 season. He joined Southend United on trial in July 2006 and was rewarded with a one year contract by Southend manager Steve Tilson the following month.
- Wayne Corden
Wayne Corden (born 1 November 1975 in Leek, Staffordshire) is a professional footballer for Leyton Orient. A skilful winger, Wayne can play on either flank although he is predominantly right-footed. Wayne came through the ranks at local side Port Vale and made his debut as a subsititute against Notts County in May 1995. He remained at Vale until the end of the 1999/2000 season when he was given a free transfer.
- Cliff Byrne
Clifford "Cliff" Byrne (born April 27 1982 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Scunthorpe United. He previously played for Sunderland. He took part in a UEFA 'B' coaching course in summer 2005.
- Jonathan Forte
Jonathan Ronald James Forte (born. July 25, 1986 in Sheffield) is an English footballer who plays for Scunthorpe United as a winger. One of Forte's most notable qualities is his blistering pace, which leaves many defenders standing.