Neil Ellett

Canadian soccer player

Neil Ellett
Personal information
Date of birth	(1944-01-05) January 5, 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth	Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Position(s)	Defender / Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1961–1967	Vancouver North Shore
1969–1970	Croatia S.C.
	Vancouver Eintracht
1974–1975	Vancouver Whitecaps	24	(1)
International career
1972–1973	Canada	7	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Neil Ellett (born in Richmond, British Columbia) was a Canadian soccer player who spent his career with Vancouver teams, including the Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the member of the Canadian national and Olympic soccer teams.

Club career

Neil Ellett graduated from Burnaby North Secondary School. He began playing for Vancouver North Shore of the Pacific Coast Soccer League when he was seventeen. He played at least one season (1969–70) in the Pacific Coast Soccer League (when the league was amateur) with soccer club Croatia S.C. He also played for Vancouver Eintracht. Ellett was an original member of the Vancouver Whitecaps, playing with the team in 1974 and 1975. His only Whitecap goal was the first scored by the team in their history, on May 4, 1974 at Empire Stadium.

National team

From 1967 to 1973, Ellett made 12 "B" (Olympic) and seven "A" appearances for Canada. He was part of Canada's Pan American Games team in 1967 and 1971 as well as the Olympic Qualifying team in 1971. In a memorable CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying match at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, he scored the lone goal on a header in a 1–0 win over Mexico. He also participated in one round of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in 1972 (he was 27 years old when he made his debut at the "A" level).

Referee

Ellett is currently a soccer referee and a National referee assessor in British Columbia.

He was inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.^[1] He is also a member of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.^[2]

References

^ Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame 2007
^ Canada Soccer Hall of Fame: Neil Ellett

External links

Neil Ellett at the Canadian Soccer Association / Canada Soccer Hall of Fame
NASL stats
Neil Ellett at National-Football-Teams.com

Canada Soccer Hall of Fame

Based in Ottawa, Ontario

Hall of Fame

Players (144)

Modern Players (Men's National Team)	Bernier Brennan Bridge Bunbury Catliff Corazzin Dasovic De Rosario deVos Dolan Forrest Gray Hastings Hooper Limniatis McKenna Miller Mitchell Mobilio Moore Onstad Peschisolido Radzinski Ragan Samuel Segota Stalteri Sweeney Valentine Watson Yallop
Modern Players (Women's National Team)	S. Brand Burtini Cant Caron Chapman Chin Baker David Donnelly Franko Gayle Helland Hermus Hooper Kelly Lang LeBlanc Lemieux McEachern Mongrain Morneau Moscato Muir Neil Ring Ross Serwetnyk Simon Stoumbos Timko Baxter Walsh Wilkinson
Past Players (Post WW2)	Ambler Arends Ayre Bak Blundell Bolitho J. Brand Cairns M. Castonguay P. Castonguay R. Castonguay Chursky Cowan Crossan Douglas Ellett Gill Greig Harvey Hughes Iarusci Ion Johnson Kodelja R. Lenarduzzi S. Lenarduzzi Lettieri Marcantonio Matheson McGrane N. McLeod W. McLeod D. McMahon Newbold Parsons Pears B. Philley P. Philley Phillips Robinson Schepers B. Smith Spencer A. Stevens G. Stevens Stewart Stojanović Stothard Vazzoler Whent Whittaker B. Wilson Nicholl (NIR)
Past Players (Pre WW2)	G. Anderson (1900) Bowman Campbell Clulow Coulter Derby Dierden Edmunds Findler Fitzpatrick Graham Halliwell Harley Lavery MacLaine Manson Matthews Moir Nelson A. Smith Stobbart Thombs W. Thomson Turner Wakelyn Woutersz Chedgzoy (ENG) Kennaway (SCO) McDonald (NIR)