Pat Byrne (footballer)

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Personal information
Full name Patrick Joseph Byrne [1]
Date of birth (1956-05-15) 15 May 1956 (age 67)
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
–1974 Rangers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1974–1978 Bohemians 98 (20)
1978 Philadelphia Fury 19 (3)
1978–1979 Shelbourne ? (0)
1979–1981 Leicester City 36 (3)
1981–1983 Heart of Midlothian 65 (11)
1983–1988 Shamrock Rovers 126 (16)
1988–1993 Shelbourne ? (?)
1993–1994 Cobh Ramblers 4 (0)
1993–1994 St James's Gate 0 (0)
1993–1994 Shelbourne 1 (0)
International career
1974–1987 League of Ireland XI ? (1)
1984–1986 Republic of Ireland 8 (0)
Managerial career
1988–1993 Shelbourne
1995–1996 St James's Gate
1996–1997 Shamrock Rovers
1999–2000 Kilikenny City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Joseph Byrne (born 15 May 1956, in Dublin) is an Irish former football player and manager.

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Playing career

Club

A central midfielder, Byrne's playing career started with Bohemians, his debut coming against St Patrick's Athletic on 25 August 1974 in a LFA President's Cup Final. He made 162 appearances in all competitions for Bohemians (98 in the league, 10 in European competition) [2] and won 2 League of Ireland titles and 1 FAI Cup before he moved to the US in 1978, for a year with the Philadelphia Fury of the North American Soccer League. At the Fury he played alongside fellow Irishmen Fran O'Brien and Eddie Byrne, appearing in eighteen matches plus one play-off game and scoring three goals. [3] Byrne's teammates also included Alan Ball, Peter Osgood and Johnny Giles, while he played against the likes of Rodney Marsh, Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia and Bobby Moore.

He returned to Europe in 1979, playing for Leicester City in England until 1981, then Heart of Midlothian in Scotland until 1983. [4] While playing for Hearts he was based in Dublin, and would regularly commute to Scotland for weekend fixtures. When this became too much of a burden, he was granted a free transfer and joined League of Ireland side Shamrock Rovers, where he won four league titles in a row and the FAI Cup three times between 1984 and 1987. He was the club's Player of the Year in 1984–85 and also picked up the SWAI Personality of the Year award for that season. He made seven appearances for Rovers in European competition.

International

In April 1983, Byrne played for the League of Ireland XI U21s against their Italian League counterparts who included Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli in their team. The Irish Times . Dublin. 1 December 1983. ISSN   0791-5144 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1983/1201/Pg003.html .{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) During this time with Shamrock Rovers he also won eight full international caps for the Republic of Ireland, three inter-league caps, scoring once, and played in two 1988 Summer Olympics qualifiers.

Management career

Byrne retired from playing at the end of the 1987–88 season when he was appointed as player-manager of Shelbourne. [5] By 1992, he had guided the club to their first League of Ireland title in thirty years and the following year, he guided them to their first FAI Cup success in thirty years, when they beat Dundalk 1–0 in the final at Lansdowne Road. In the Cup Winners' Cup that autumn, Byrne brought Shelbourne their first European victory since 1964 when they knocked out Ukrainian club Karpaty Lviv 3–2 on aggregate. He was sacked along with his assistant Jim McLaughlin shortly afterwards, [6] and was succeeded by Eoin Hand.

Byrne became player-manager of St James's Gate in February 1994 before he came back to Shamrock Rovers to manage the club for the 1996–97 season. He later managed Kilkenny City to promotion to the Premier Division.

In September 2006, he became an official Shamrock Rovers Legend. [7]

Honours

As a player

As a manager

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References

  1. ↑ "Pat Byrne". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Bohemian FC match programme, Vol. 46, no. 5
  3. ↑ "NASL Philadelphia Fury Rosters".
  4. ↑ "Pat Byrne". neilbrown.newcastlefans.com.
  5. ↑ The Irish Times . Dublin. 15 April 1983. ISSN   0791-5144 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1988/0415/Pg003.html#Ar00305:21E45526C4AA2A84A62B94B922C51D23D5302984553324AA2C14A62E34B921E4E82414FB24751D26A530 .{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ The Irish Times . Dublin. 13 October 1993. ISSN   0791-5144 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1993/1013/Pg018.html#Ar01803:6021BD6251D669C3AC6B23C162409170411062D1BD6391D66381BE6411D66411BD6591D660127662828B6B83AC6DE3C16873E76AE3FC60F4966374AC7971EC7CD20670D3E77343FC .{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ "Shamrock Rovers F.C. -". Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
  8. ↑ From 1992 the second tier of English football was known as Football League First Division. Since 2004 it has been known as the Football League Championship.
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