Scott was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to football
Alexandra Virina Scott MBE (born 14 October 1984) is an English former
footballer who mostly played as a
right-back for
Arsenal in the
FA WSL, pundit and presenter. She made 140 appearances for the
English national team and also represented
Great Britain at the
2012 London Olympics.
At club level, Scott has had three separate spells with Arsenal, punctuated with a season at
Birmingham City in 2004–05 and three years in the American
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) with
Boston Breakers. She scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the
2007 UEFA Women's Cup Final.
Currently, she has a career in broadcasting, notably appearing as a pundit during the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Scott began her media career while still playing football, appearing on programs such as
Soccer AM with other minor roles at
BBC Sport,
BT Sport, and
Sky Sports. In 2016 Scott was featured in
Bear Grylls' ITV show,
Mission Survive where she won.
Following Scott's retirement in 2017, she turned her focus full-time to television broadcasting, co-presenting on
Match of the Day Kickabout.
She became well known to a wider audience when she covered the
2018 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first female football pundit at a World Cup for the BBC. After the tournament, she continued to provide insight on the Premier League, and in August 2018 became the first female pundit on Sky Sports, joining the
Super Sunday team.
She covered the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup for the BBC. In August 2019, Scott was announced as the new co-host of Sky Sports'
Goals on Sunday alongside
Chris Kamara.
In 2011, Scott started 'The Alex Scott Academy' in partnership with
Kingston College and
Puma, for female footballers aged 16–19 years. This represented the first such academy in the UK and was intended to highlight the growth of the women's game.
Scott also wrote a weekly women's football column in the
Morning Star newspaper.
