Coaching Career
After his retirement, Scott landed a coaching role at Leyton Orient. He went on to become youth team manager. On 9 May 2007, Scott was appointed assistant manager at Brentford to Terry Butcher. On 11 December, Scott was named caretaker manager of Brentford following the sacking of Butcher. His caretaker spell was a successful one, and he landed the role permanently on 4 January 2008, signing a five-year contract.
His first calendar year in charge was recognised with an award, the BBC London "Manager of The Year" for 2008.
In his first full season in charge, Scott led the west London club to the 2008–09 Football League Two title (English football's 4th tier), confirming the championship with a 3–1 away win at Darlington on 25 April.
Scott was awarded the League Two Manager of the Month award for April/May 2009; which recognised his team's title and also the circumstances in which it had been achieved—four first choice strikers were hospitalised in the last 8 games of the campaign.
Scott was runner up of the LMA Manager of the Year Award for League Two in 2009 after the promotion winning season, losing out to Paul Tisdale of Exeter City. On 3 February 2011, he was sacked as manager of Brentford after a 4–1 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge. His sacking was criticized by Wojciech Szczęsny when he posted Twitter tweeting "“What a joke! Andy Scott sacked?! He is a fantastic manager and Brentford will pay the price. They were struggling in League Two when AS took over! He is the only reason why Brentford is in League One.” Scott signed Szczęsny in 2009 and gave him more playing time.
On 13 April 2011, Scott was named manager of Rotherham United on a three-year contract. Scott was awarded the League Two Manager of the Month award for August 2011 after a good run of results and start with Rotherham. In March 2012 he was sacked after less than one year in charge.
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