Scott Burgess (footballer)

Scott Andrew Burgess (born 12 August 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for League Two club Port Vale.

Scott Burgess
Personal information
Full name Scott Andrew Burgess[1]
Date of birth (1997-08-12) 12 August 1997[2]
Place of birth Warrington, England[3]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.79 m)[4]
Position(s) Central midfielder[5]
Club information
Current team
 Port Vale
Number 20
Youth career
0000–2014 Bury
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2019 Bury 20 (2)
2015 → Stalybridge Celtic (loan) 3 (0)
2016 → Bergsøy (loan) 14 (4)
2017–2018 → Macclesfield Town (loan) 31 (0)
2018 → Wrexham (loan) 1 (0)
2019 → York City (loan) 16 (1)
2019– Port Vale 42 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:40, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

He made his debut in the English Football League with Bury in May 2014. From there he was loaned out to non-league sides Stalybridge Celtic, Macclesfield Town, Wrexham and York City, as well as Norwegian 3. divisjon club Bergsøy. He spent the whole of the 2017–18 season at Macclesfield and helped them to win the National League title. He joined Port Vale on a free transfer in May 2019.

Career

Bury

Burgess was born in Warrington, Cheshire.[6] He came through the youth system of Bury.[7] Burgess played in every youth-team match in the 2013–14 season, making 28 appearances as the team reached the Lancashire Senior Cup final.[8] He made his first-team debut in League Two on 3 May 2014 in a 0–0 draw away to Morecambe, starting the match before being replaced in the 54th minute.[9] He turned professional at the club 12 months later.[10]

On 10 September 2015, Burgess was loaned out for one month to Stalybridge Celtic of the National League North.[11] However, he played only 21 minutes across three substitute appearances for Stalybridge, his final game a 1–0 win over F.C. United of Manchester at Bower Fold.[12] He joined Norwegian 3. divisjon club Bergsøy on 31 March 2016 on loan until July.[13] Bury manager David Flitcroft explained that he had wanted to play Burgess himself but felt unable to due to the team's good home form and poor away form.[14]

With the club now in League One, he broke into the Bury first-team under new head coach Chris Brass during the 2016–17 season and signed a two-year contract extension in December, just days after scoring his first goal in professional football in a 4–2 defeat at Bristol Rovers.[15][16] He ended the month with his second goal to earn Bury a 1–1 draw at Bradford City, lobbing goalkeeper Colin Doyle on 39 minutes.[17] He ended the campaign with two goals and two assists in 17 appearances, though fell out of favour under new boss Lee Clark and would not feature at all in his next two seasons at Gigg Lane.[18][19]

Burgess joined National League club Macclesfield Town on 4 July 2017 on loan for the 2017–18 season.[20] He made 22 starts and 11 substitute appearances as Macclesfield were promoted to League Two as 2017–18 National League champions.[21][22] He scored one goal for Macclesfield, a volley against Stourbridge in the FA Cup, which won him the club's goal of the month award for October.[14] Speaking on his time at Moss Rose, Burgess said that "It's a tough league and it's a physical league, I'm learning each day in training and I keep learning more with each game I play and adapting to how team's play, so this loan spell has been good for me."[23]

Burgess joined National League club Wrexham on 22 August 2018 on a three-month loan.[24] He returned to Bury on 22 November after making only two appearances for Sam Ricketts's Wrexham due to the form of other players.[25] He joined National League North club York City on 24 January 2019 on loan until the end of the 2018–19 season.[26] Assistant manager Micky Cummins revealed that manager Steve Watson had previously tried to sign him whilst at Gateshead.[27] Often used as an attacking central midfielder in a 4–3–3 formation, he played 16 matches for York and scored one goal, a long-range volley against Kidderminster Harriers that was named York's goal of the season.[27][14] He was offered a permanent contract by the club at the end of the season.[28]

Port Vale

Burgess signed for League Two club Port Vale, who were managed by former Macclesfield manager John Askey, on 24 May 2019 on a one-year contract.[29] Speaking in September, Askey said that he would "possibly" look to get Burgess out on loan to a National League side as the midfielder had failed to make a first-team appearance for the "Valiants".[30] He finally made his first-team debut on 24 September, and marked it with a goal in a 3–2 victory at former club Macclesfield Town in the EFL Trophy.[31] After the game he said that "I have had to be patient with the team doing well in the league, but the gaffer spoke to me and just encouraged me in training to keep working hard. I am glad to get my chance and hopefully I have repaid him with a good performance".[32] Despite also scoring in his league debut four days later, he had to wait until the end of October before managing to firmly secure a place in the starting eleven in a high-energy pressing midfield three with Jake Taylor and Luke Joyce.[33][34] He signed a two-year contract extension in February 2020.[35] He scored four goals in 29 appearances throughout the 2019–20 season and won the club's Young Player of the Year award.[36]

Style of play

Burgess can play in the centre or right-side of midfield and is known as a creative attacking player, though lacking physical presence.[37][19] Speaking in May 2019, York City assistant manager Micky Cummins described him as brave and comfortable on the ball, with good technical and dead ball skills.[27]

Career statistics
As of match played 23 January 2021
Appearances and goal by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bury 2013–14[9] League Two 1000000010
2014–15[38] League Two 0000000000
2015–16[39] League One 3010001[lower-alpha 1]050
2016–17[18] League One 16200001[lower-alpha 1]0172
2017–18[40] League One 00———00
2018–19[41] League Two 00—000000
Total 202100020232
Stalybridge Celtic (loan) 2015–16[21][42] National League North 3000——30
Bergsøy (loan) 2016[43] 3. divisjon 144———144
Macclesfield Town (loan) 2017–18[21] National League 31011—1[lower-alpha 2]0331
Wrexham (loan) 2018–19[21] National League 1010——20
York City (loan) 2018–19[21] National League North 161———161
Port Vale 2019–20[44] League Two 24320003[lower-alpha 3]1294
2020–21[45] League Two 18010204[lower-alpha 3]0250
Total 423302071544
Career total 12710612010114512
  1. Appearance in Football League Trophy
  2. Appearance in FA Trophy
  3. Appearances in EFL Trophy

Honours

Macclesfield Town

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