Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Joseph Gilroy [1] | ||
Date of birth | 19 October 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Balfron | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1958–1960 | Queen's Park | 4 | (0) |
1963–1964 | Montrose | 31 | (6) |
1964–1967 | Clyde | 106 | (44) |
1967–1969 | Fulham | 24 | (8) |
1969–1971 | Dundee | 52 | (13) |
1971–1974 | Highlands Park | 62 | (24) |
Total | 279 | (95) | |
Managerial career | |||
Valur | |||
1975–1976 | Morton | ||
1976–1979 | Queen's Park | ||
Brisbane Lions | |||
Brisbane City | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Joseph Gilroy (born 19 October 1941) is a Scottish former football forward.
Joe Gilroy began his career with Queens Park, where at 16 years old he made 8 appearances alongside Sir Alex Ferguson. [2] He studied at The Scottish School of Physical Education with Craig Brown and Andy Roxburgh. During this time he gained his full SFA coaching badge and was a staff coach in 1963. That year he signed for Montrose to play alongside Gordon Wallace. [3]
Gilroy then joined Clyde managed by John Prentice, playing with Jim McLean, Harry Hood and Davie White and 44 goals in 106 games saw him sign for Fulham where he joined Johnny Haynes, George Cohen and Allan Clark. [3] John Prentice signed Gilroy for Dundee to again link up with Gordon Wallace and Jim McLean. [3] After three seasons he joined Highlands Park in South Africa to help win the league and the National Castle Cup. [4] Returning to Scotland he was appointed coach of Falkirk with John Prentice as Manager. [4] Gilroy then managed Valur in Iceland, Morton and Queen's Park before emigrating to Australia. [4] There he managed Brisbane Lions and Brisbane City in the National League then coached the Queensland Team until 1997. [5]
Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish football pyramid. Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the 10th oldest in the world.
Clyde Football Club is a Scottish semi-professional football club who play in Scottish League Two. Formed in 1877 at the River Clyde in Glasgow, the club host their home matches at New Douglas Park, having played at Broadwood Stadium from 1994 until 2022. Their biggest accomplishments were winning the Scottish Cup on three occasions: 1939, 1955 and 1958; they reached the final a further three times, all during a long period based at Shawfield. They have not played in the top division of Scottish football since 1975.
James Yuille McLean was a Scottish football player, manager and director. He managed Dundee United between 1971 and 1993, becoming the longest-serving and most successful manager in the club's history, winning three major honours. He was also part-time assistant manager to Jock Stein with the Scotland national team.
Robert Brown was a Scottish international football player and manager. He played as a goalkeeper for Queen's Park, Rangers and Falkirk and made five international appearances for Scotland. He managed St Johnstone at club level and the Scottish national team from 1967 to 1971. Brown was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
John Prentice was a Scottish football player and manager. He played for Heart of Midlothian, Rangers, Falkirk and Dumbarton, and managed Arbroath, Falkirk, Dundee, Clyde and Scotland.
Brian Stuart McLean is a footballer manager and former player, who currently manages Scottish League Two club Clyde.
Robert Brown Clark is a Scottish football player and coach. Clark, who played as a goalkeeper, spent most of his playing career with Aberdeen. He also played for Queen's Park, Washington Whips, San Antonio Thunder and Clyde. Clark played 17 times for Scotland and represented the Scottish League. He later became a coach, mainly working in New Zealand and the United States.
John Cameron was a Scottish footballer and manager. He played as a forward for Queen's Park, Everton and Scotland and was noted as an effective goal-maker and goalscorer. In 1899 he became player-manager at Tottenham Hotspur and guided them to victory in the 1901 FA Cup. As a result, they became the only club outside the English Football League to win the competition. In 1898 he became the first secretary of the Association Footballers' Union, which was the ill-fated fore-runner of the Professional Footballers' Association. He later coached Dresdner SC and during the First World War he was interned at Ruhleben, a civilian detention camp in Germany. After the war he coached Ayr United for one season and then became a football journalist, author and publisher. He had previously worked as a columnist for various newspapers before the war.
George Herd is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Inverness Thistle, Queen's Park, Clyde, Sunderland, Vancouver Royal Canadians, Hartlepool United and Scotland.
Richard Hendrie was a Scottish professional football left back, best remembered for his spells as player and manager in the Football League with Gillingham.
The Glasgow Cup is a football tournament open to teams from Glasgow, Scotland. Operated by the Glasgow Football Association, it was competed for annually by senior Glasgow clubs from 1887 until 1989. It is now competed for between the senior teams of Clyde, Partick Thistle and Queen's Park and the youth teams of Celtic and Rangers, and has used both knockout and round robin formats to determine the finalists.
William McAndrew was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. He played for Queen's Park, Clyde, Third Lanark and Dundee Hibernian.
Alexander Deighton Wright was a Scottish football player and manager.
Tony Wallace is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dumbarton.
The Glasgow Merchants' Charity Cup was a knockout football tournament open to teams from in and around Glasgow and later on in the tournament's history, teams from outwith Glasgow. Invitations were made and sent out by the Glasgow Charity Cup Committee (GCCC) at their discretion, but no criteria were ever published.
Alexander Leslie Henderson Skene MC was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Fulham as a goalkeeper. He also played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Hibernian and in the Irish League for Glentoran. He won one cap for Scotland at international level.
Thomas Edmund Russell Moreland (1901–1986) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park, Heart of Midlothian, Hamilton Academical and Third Lanark as a forward or left half. In addition to managing Clyde, he served Third Lanark as player-manager and later as a board member.
Donald Hunter McLean is a Scottish former amateur football who played in the Scottish League as a wing half back for Queen's Park.
Jean Louis Pollatschek is a Scottish former footballer and manager who played as a left back in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Hamilton Academical. He was capped by Scotland at amateur level and after his retirement, he became a manager and coach. Pollatschek managed the Glasgow University team, which reached the second round of the 1975–76 Scottish Cup and later served as manager of Scotland Women. He also coached at Clydebank and former club Hamilton Academical.