Brian Gartland

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Brian Gartland
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Gartland in 2019
Personal information
Full name Brian Gartland
Date of birth (1986-11-04) 4 November 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 St Patrick's Athletic (assistant)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2006 Bray Wanderers 0 (0)
2007 Shelbourne 15 (1)
2008–2010 Monaghan United 79 (6)
2011–2013 Portadown 77 (7)
2013–2022 Dundalk 178 (31)
Managerial career
2023–2024 Dundalk (Head of Football Operations)
2024 Dundalk (co-interim)
2024– St Patrick's Athletic (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 June 2024

Brian Gartland (born 4 November 1986) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. [1] He is currently an assistant coach at St Patrick's Athletic, working under Stephen Kenny.

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Playing career

A native of Knocklyon, County Dublin, [2] Gartland began his senior career at Bray Wanderers in 2005 and won their U21 Player of the Year the following year, before moving to Shelbourne at the start of 2007. Brian scored on his League of Ireland debut on the opening day of the 2007 League of Ireland season [3] and after one season at Tolka Park moved to Monaghan United in 2008, where he won the 2009 Supporters Club Player of the Year. In January 2011 he moved north of the border for a 2+1⁄2-year spell with Portadown in the Irish League.

Brian Gartland joined Dundalk during the July transfer window in 2013 having left Irish League side Portadown. [4] Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny had moved to add Gartland to his squad to strengthen his centre-half options.

Gartland made his Dundalk debut when entering as an early second-half substitute in the 3–0 win at home to Bohemians on 12 July 2013. On his first full start, Brian scored his first goal for Dundalk with against Cork on 19 July 2013 in Turners Cross. During the second half of the 2013 season, he formed a formidable partnership with Andy Boyle at the heart of the defence, and was a key player in Dundalk's title challenge – playing 12 matches and scoring twice.

On 18 October 2013, Gartland signed a fresh one-year deal to keep him at Oriel Park for the 2014 season. [5] In his first full season at the club, he scored 11 goals on the way to helping the side clinch the League title. He agreed a new two-year deal in November 2014 [6] and in 2015 he was a key member of the side that claimed the Double. During the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League Gartland scored against Jeunesse Esch [7]

Gartland remained a near ever present in the side for Dundalk's three-in-a-row League title success in 2016 and signed a new deal to stay at the club at the end of the 2017 season. [8] Having been made club captain in 2018 after injury to Stephen O'Donnell, Gartland lifted both the League title and the FAI Cup that season, as the club completed its second Double in four seasons.

Gartland was part of the first Irish side to reach the play-off round of the UEFA Champions League in August 2016 and qualified for the Europa League group stages. [9] Gartland scored against Rosenborg BK in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League [10]

He also played regularly in 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage. [11] Gartland picked up a serious injury to his Anterior cruciate ligament on 2 April 2021, 6 minutes into his first league appearance of the season, against Shamrock Rovers at Tallaght Stadium. [12]

Post playing career

After retiring from playing at the end of the 2022 season with Dundalk, Gartland remained with the club in the role of Head of Football Operations from January 2023 until he departed the role in May 2024. [13] During his spell as Head of Football Operations, from April–May 2024, after the sacking of Stephen O'Donnell, he acted as co-interim manager of the first-team alongside Liam Burns. [14]

On 10 June 2024, it was announced that he had been appointed as an assistant coach at St Patrick's Athletic, under his former manager Stephen Kenny. [15]

Honours

Dundalk

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References

  1. ↑ "Brian Gartland". dundalkfc.com. 2019.
  2. ↑ https://www.dublinlive.ie/sport/soccer/knocklyon-brian-gartland-stop-me-23208457.amp [ bare URL ]
  3. ↑ "Brian Gartland discusses the former manager he 'hated for years'". 22 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Gartland agrees Dundalk move". dundalkfc.com. 8 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Shields and Gartland agree new deals". dundalkfc.com. 18 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Gartland and Byrne re-sign". dundalkfc.com. 5 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Dundalk-Jeunesse Esch | UEFA Europa League 2014/15".
  8. ↑ "Duo agree new deals". dundalkfc.com. 24 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Andy Boyle – UEFA player profile". UEFA. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Rosenborg-Dundalk | UEFA Champions League 2017/18".
  11. ↑ "Bittersweet night for Dundalk star as he equals Glen Crowes European". the42. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
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  13. ↑ "Gartland departs from Dundalk after a decade". 13 May 2024 – via www.rte.ie.
  14. ↑ McCadden, Mark (13 April 2024). "Who'd be a football manager? Brian Gartland on why the job is not for him". Irish Mirror.
  15. ↑ "Brian Gartland Named Assistant Coach". www.stpatsfc.com.
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