Scott Murrell (born 5 September 1985) is an English

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who plays as a or for

Midlands Hurricanes The Midlands Hurricanes are a semi-professional rugby league club jointly based in Birmingham and Coventry, West Midlands, England. They were founded as the Coventry Bears in 1998 and entered the third tier of the British rugby league system, ...

in the

RFL League 1 RFL League One (for sponsorship reasons currently known as the Betfred League One) is a professional rugby league competition based in the United Kingdom. Part of the British rugby league pyramid, the competition features clubs from England a ...

. He has previously played in the

Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of ...

for

Leeds Rhinos The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was formed in 1870 as Leeds St John's and play in the Super League, the top tier of English rugby league. They have played home matches at Head ...

London Broncos The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England. The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...

and

Hull Kingston Rovers Hull Kingston Rovers are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top tier of British rugby league. The club has won five league championships, and one Challenge ...

, in the Betfred Championship for Halifax, and for

Keighley Cougars The Keighley Cougars are a professional rugby league club from Keighley in West Yorkshire, England who compete in RFL League 1, League 1, the third tier of English rugby league. Keighley's home ground, Cougar Park has a capacity of 7,800. His ...

in League One. He played at representative level for Great Britain (Academy) touring Australia. On 4 August 2020, it was announced that Murrell would join

for the 2021 season After two seasons with Keighley, Murrell announced in August 2022 that he was retiring from playing at the end of the 2022 season. At the end of the 2022 season Murrell joined Keighley's coaching team but left in December 2022 to become assistant coach at

Castleford Tigers The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that compete in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere. The club have competed ...

where as well as being assistant to Lee Radford he will be the reserves head coach.

Background

Scott Murrell was born in

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, England. He is the son of the rugby league footballer;

Bryan Murrell Bryan Murrell (born 3 April ) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Leeds Juniors ARLFC, Leeds and Hunslet, as a and , i.e. number 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or 6. Bac ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murrell, Scott 1985 births Living people Coventry Bears players English rugby league players Halifax R.L.F.C. players Hull Kingston Rovers players Leeds Rhinos players London Broncos players Keighley Cougars players Rugby league five-eighths Rugby league halfbacks Rugby league hookers Rugby league locks Rugby league players from Leeds