Mark Aston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mark Aston

English rugby league footballer and coach

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1967

Place of Birth: Castleford, England, United Kingdom

Profession: rugby league player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mark Aston (born 27 September 1967) is the Head Coach of the Sheffield Eagles in the Betfred Championship.
He is an English rugby league coach, and former rugby league scrum-half with the Sheffield Eagles and Great Britain.
He also had short spells with Featherstone Rovers (captain) (Heritage ? 709) and Bramley, but the bulk of his career was spent with the Sheffield Eagles, who he joined in 1985.
He retired from playing in 2004, having been the figurehead in the fight to save the Sheffield Eagles after their merger with Huddersfield in 1999.
In less than three months, a new club was formed that was allowed into the Northern Ford Premiership with Aston as player-coach, and a completely new semi-professional team.
This must have seemed a long way from the day, only 18 months earlier, when Aston won the Lance Todd Trophy in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, inspiring Sheffield Eagles to a famous 17-8 win over Wigan. Aston is the Chief Executive and Head Coach at the new Sheffield Eagles club, who play in the Championship.
In May 2011 he was named as the new Head Coach of the Irish National Team.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in 2012 for his services to sport in Sheffield. He is the father of the rugby league stand-off or scrum-half; Cory Aston.