Neil Sullivan

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Neil Sullivan
Personal information
Full name	Neil Sullivan
Date of birth	February 24, 1970
Place of birth	Sutton, England
Nickname	'Sully'
Position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Doncaster Rovers (on loan from Leeds United)
Number	22
Youth clubs
	Wimbledon
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1988-00 1992 2000-03 2003-04 2004- 2006	Wimbledon → Crystal Palace (loan) Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea Leeds United → Doncaster Rovers (loan)	181 (0) 1 (0) 64 (0) 4 (0) 91 (0) 1 (0)
National team**
1997-2003	Scotland	28 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC). ** National team caps and goals correct as of 30/08/2006.

Neil Sullivan (born 24 February 1970 in Sutton) is a professional footballer currently playing for Doncaster Rovers on loan from Leeds United. He is a goalkeeper. Although born and brought up in England, he has Scottish ancestry enabling him to play for the Scottish national side.

Sullivan began his career with Wimbledon in 1988, amassing a total of 224 appearances between 1988 and 2000. He also played one game on loan for Crystal Palace in 1992. In 2000, Sullivan moved to Tottenham from Wimbledon, where he made over 80 appearances. He then moved to Chelsea in the 2003-04 season, playing 8 times for them.

In June 2004, he was signed by Championship team Leeds United. In his first season (2004-05), he was voted as the club's Player of the Year.

Sullivan has also been capped 28 times by Scotland. He was named in the Scottish squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, but was an unused substitute in all of Scotland's three matches.

He is also famous for being the goalkeeper that David Beckham scored a goal from the halfway line against, while he was off his line; the goal was later chosen as goal of the decade in 2003.

Due to an injury picked up in the pre-season match against Nottingham Forest Neil has made very few appearances in the 2006-07 campaign for Leeds. On 23 November 2006 he moved on loan to Doncaster Rovers on where he will stay until 1 January 2007.

[edit] External links

• Neil Sullivan career stats at Soccerbase
• Official Website's Player Profile
• Some Information from a supporters' web site

Doncaster Rovers F.C. - Current Squad
1 Warrington | 2 O'Connor | 3 G. Roberts | 4 S. Roberts | 5 Lee | 6 Horlock | 7 Guy | 8 Thornton | 9 McCammon | 10 Dyer | 11 Lockwood | 12 Budtz | 13 Smith | 14 Heffernan | 15 Wilson | 16 Griffith | 17 Forte | 18 McDaid | 20 P. Green | 21 Di Piedi | 22 Sullivan | 23 Price | 24 Pacey | 25 L. Green | 26 Coppinger | 27 Nelthorpe | 28 Brown | 33 Streete | 36 Blayney | Manager: O'Driscoll

	Scotland squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Leighton | 2 McNamara | 3 Boyd | 4 Calderwood | 5 Hendry | 6 T. McKinlay | 7 Gallacher | 8 Burley | 9 Durie | 10 Jackson | 11 Collins | 12 Sullivan | 13 Donnelly | 14 Lambert | 15 Gemmill | 16 Weir | 17 B. McKinlay | 18 Elliott | 19 Whyte | 20 Booth | 21 Gould | 22 Dailly | Coach: Brown