Jill Scott

Sunderland

Scott began her senior career with Sunderland Women and in October 2005, aged only 18 years, she won the Women's Player of the Month award for September, based on her performances for both her club and country (at under-19 level).

Everton

Scott joined Everton Ladies in July 2006, having turned down an approach from Doncaster Rovers Belles. Her first game for Everton came the following month, a 3–0 defeat against Arsenal Ladies in the FA Women's Community Shield. At the end of the 2007–08 season, she picked up the FA Tesco Players' Player of the Year award. Also nominated were Arsenal's Alex Scott and Karen Carney. In April 2012, Scott was appointed as one of eight digital media ambassadors, one from each team, who wear their Twitter account name on their shirt sleeves to raise the profile of the WSL. Scott decided to leave Everton at the end of the 2013 season. During her first spell at Everton, Scott won the FA Women's Premier League Cup and the FA Women's Cup, playing in both finals.

Manchester City

After leaving Everton, Scott signed a two-year deal with Manchester City. This move proved a success, as she played her part in securing the Continental Cup Trophy for Manchester City in 2014. In April 2015, Scott was shown the red card and banned for three matches for headbutting Arsenal's Jade Bailey during Manchester City's 1–0 defeat. In the 2017 FA Cup Final, Scott scored in a 4–1 win against Birmingham City. In June 2020, Scott…

England

At junior level, Scott played for the England Under-19s side, scoring three times in three games as England won through the first round of qualifying for the 2006 UEFA Under-19s tournament. Her first call-up to the England senior squad came in May 2006, having captained the Under-19s side for the previous 18 months. She made her debut for the England senior team against the Netherlands in August 2006, coming on as a late substitute for Kelly Smith in a 4–0 win. She made the squad for the 2007 World Cup, coming on as a substitute in England's opening match against Japan. She went on to start the remainder of England's matches in the tournament, scoring her first international goal in the 6–1 demolition of Argentina in the group stage. England bowed out at the quarter-final stage after a 3–0 defeat against the United States. In May 2009, Scott was one of the first 17 female players to be given central contracts by The Football Association. She was named in coach Hope Powell's squad for the 2009 UEFA Women's European Championships, scoring a late winner as England beat the Netherlands in the semi-final, having come on as a substitute for Jessica Clarke at the beginning of extra-time.

At the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, Scott scored against New Zealand in England's 2–1 group B win. She put England ahead against France in the quarter final, but did not take a penalty in her team's 3–4 shootout defeat following a 1–1 draw. In February 2019, Scott pulled out of the…

In November 2022, Scott won the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was crowned "Queen of the Jungle", becoming the first LGBTQ+ woman to win the show. Scott has appeared as a pundit for several Men's and Women's matches, including England Men's Euros qualifying games against Malta and North Macedonia, and the UEFA Women's Champions League final. In June 2023, she became the first female player to captain England for Soccer Aid. In 2023 Scott became a captain in the panel show A League of Their Own. In 2025, Scott launched a podcast with Karen Carney, called “Long Story Short”. She also served as a contestant on Taskmaster. In 2026, she appeared in an episode of Celebrity Sabotage. In June 2026, Scott ran and cycled 388 miles (624 km) over 5 days, from Wembley Stadium in London to Sunderland's Stadium of Light, to raise money for charity; at least half of the money raised will support local Sport for Change projects, the rest going to Comic Relief's wider work. In the fourth season of Ted Lasso that premiered in August 2026, Scott and Rebecca Lowe play themselves as commentators for fictional AFC Richmond's women's football games.

Scott grew up in Fulwell, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and lived with parents Doreen and Bryan and three siblings, a sister Amanda who is seven years older, a brother Mark who is four years older, and a sister who is nine years younger. She attended Monkwearmouth Comprehensive School. When Scott was five she would go with her nine-year-old brother into the back lanes near their house and play football with him and his friends and Scott has commented that "...we spent all of our childhood just in the back lanes, so, if say Wimbledon was on I'd get a tennis racket from somewhere and we'd be playing tennis, if the ashes was on you'd suddenly get a cricket bat and you just went through every sport and event being in the back lanes." At the age of seven she was playing football in a boys team, and played for both a local team and a team at her school and was the only student in year 5 to be on the school football team. A keen long-distance runner, Scott ran for Sunderland Harriers, winning the North of England Under-13 cross-country title and the Junior Great North Run and at the age of 13, she had to decide between football or running, and chose to concentrate on playing football. Scott then began playing football for the Boldon CA girls' team in Tyne & Wear and later met future England teammates Steph Houghton and Demi Stokes who also played for Boldon. As part of the "Where Greatness Is Made" campaign, plaques honouring Stokes and Scott were installed at the club in 2022. When…