726 Scott Maxfield

Biography

Utility defender and midfielder Scott Maxfield played primarily at left back during his time at Hull City. He joined the club in March 1996 from Doncaster Rovers alongside striker Duane Darby and was eased into the first team during the following month, making an inauspicious debut when replacing injured left back Jimmy Graham in a 0-5 drubbing at Wrexham. Scott began the 1996/97 season in the first team squad, mostly coming on as substitute, but dropped out of contention after the first couple of months. For the remainder of his first full season he played in fits and starts, never establishing himself as a natural first team pick.

In the 1997/98 season, under new manager Mark Hateley, Maxfield remained a peripheral figure until March and April 1998 when he had a run of games at left back. However that spell in the first team coincided with Hateley’s most egregious sequences of squalid defeats – including the notorious 0-1 defeat at relegation certs Doncaster Rovers – and Maxfield was released that summer.

Scott Maxfield was born in Doncaster and came through Doncaster Rovers’ YTS programme, debuting in December 1993 in an FA Cup replay against Shrewsbury Town. He made his League debut a year later against Scunthorpe in December 1994 and ended the 1994/95 season with a run of starts in midfield. He drifted around the fringes of the Rovers first team throughout much of the 1995/96 season and when he departed to join Hull City in March 1996 he had 31 senior appearances and scored once, in an October 1995 League Division 3 match against Chester City.

Maxfield returned to Doncaster Rovers in June 1998, who were freshly relegated to the Conference National league, over the next two seasons he scored once in 65 appearances as Rovers completed two mid-table finishes. In July 2000 Scott moved to Northern Premier League side Barrow and stayed at Holker Street for five seasons, scoring 11 goals in 247 appearances and helping the Cumbrian side to win promotion to the Conference North league at the end of the 2003/04 season.

In November 2005 Scott switched to Conference North side Stalybridge Celtic, then in June 2007 began an association with Northern Premier League side Buxton FC that lasted six years and encompassed roles as player (he made 255 appearances for the Bucks and scored five goals), player-coach, player-manager (briefly in 2011) and player-assistant manager. He left Buxton in September 2013 and had single seasons at Conference North side Bradford Park Avenue and North East Counties League side Handsworth Parramore before ending his playing career in 2015.

Maxfield remained in the non-league scene, working as assistant manager to boss Mark Hume at Matlock Town (between January 2015 and April 2017) and Sheffield FC (between April and September 2017). He then moved into football administration, taking the role of Head of Community Football at Iron Foundation, the Scunthorpe United Community Trust, in 2019 and rising to Chief Executive Officer of the Trust by 2023.

Details

Nationality: England
Date/Place of Birth: 13 July 1976, Doncaster
Hull City First Game: 20 April 1996, Wrexham A (League Division 2), 19 years, 282 days old
Hull City Final Game: 11 April 1998, Hartlepool United H (League Division 2), 21 years, 272 days old

Clubs

Doncaster Rovers (1993-1996), Hull City (1996-1998), Doncaster Rovers (1998-2000), Barrow (2000-2005), Stalybridge Celtic (2005-2007), Buxton (2007-2013), Bradford Park Avenue (2013-2014), Handsworth Parramore (2014-2015)

Hull City Record

Career: 39 apps, 0 goals

Scott Maxfield
SeasonLGE
App
LGE
Gls
FAC
App
FAC
Gls
FLC
App
FLC
Gls
EUR
App
EUR
Gls
OTH
App
OTH
Gls
1995/963 (1)0
1996/9710 (7)01 (0)01 (1)00 (1)0
1997/9810 (4)0

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.