Former Melbourne City FC Chief Executive Scott Munn named Chief Football Officer at England's Tottenham Hotspur

Former AFL, NRL and A-League executive Scott Munn has been appointed to one of the most high-profile and challenging off-field jobs in the English Premier League after being named Chief Football Officer at Tottenham Hotspur FC.

Munn, who is best known for his time as Chief Executive of A-League side Melbourne City, was announced in the new role, his first in European football, late yesterday.

Munn, who began his sports management career with the organising committee for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, then joined the NRL in a commercial role before moving to the AFL to lead the League’s expansion efforts into the Gold Coast, serving as General Manager for the GC17 project.

He was Chief Executive at Melbourne City for their maiden Australia Cup triumph in 2016 and hat-trick of women’s grand final wins between 2016 and 2018 before moving to Chinain 2019, where he became CFG’s Chief Executive - China.

CFG is minority owner of Sichuan Jiuniu in the tier below the Chinese Super League.

Munn (pictured) was Chief Executive at Melbourne City for their maiden Australia Cup triumph in 2016 and hat-trick of women’s grand final wins between 2016 and 2018 before moving to China, where CFG is minority owner of Sichuan Jiuniu in the tier below the Chinese Super League.

The move to the English Premier League giants represents enormous opportunity for Munn, who will have to navigate a challenging environment in north London amid fan unrest and with the club without a full-time manager after the sacking of Antonio Conte, who last month became the 11th head coach hired and fired during Executive Chairman Daniel Levy’s two-decade tenure at the club.

Spurs said in a statement that the appointment of Munn, who will join the club’s board and take charge of all footballing departments, comes amid an “ongoing review over the past six months of all of our footballing activities”.

Welcoming Munn to the role, Levy advised “Scott has a unique and broad experience of running sporting organisations at the highest level and will take responsibility for the leadership and management of our football activities to instil best practice both on and off the pitch.”