Richard O'Kelly

Football player infobox
playername = Richard O'Kelly
fullname = Richard O'Kelly


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1957|1|8
cityofbirth = West Bromwich
countryofbirth = England
height = 180cm
currentclub = Doncaster Rovers
position = Centre forward
years = 197?–1979
1979–1986
1986–1988
1988
1988–1989
clubs = Alvechurch
Walsall
Port Vale
Walsall
Grimsby Town
caps(goals) = 00? 0(?)
204 (56)
028 0(4)
012 0(1)
039 (10)

Richard O'Kelly (born 8 January 1957 in West Bromwich) is an English former footballer and is currently the assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers.

His playing career spanned a decade in the Football League where he played for Walsall, Port Vale and Grimsby Town. Richard finished his playing career in 1989 following a bad injury sustained playing for Grimsby Town, ironically against current club Doncaster Rovers. After finishing his playing career he remained at Blundell Park as a youth team coach before moving to West Brom in 1994. He spent seven years at The Hawthorns as youth team coach, and then six months at Aston Villa, before joining Hereford United in 2002 as assistant manager to Graham Turner.

He was appointed assistant manager of Bournemouth in the summer of 2004 and two years later followed manager Sean O'Driscoll to Doncaster Rovers. Under the pair's first full season at Doncaster Rovers, the club gained promotion into The Coca-cola championship, after winning the League One play-off final against Leeds United.