Glen Crowe

Football player infobox
playername = Glen Crowe
fullname = Glen Crowe


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1977|12|25
cityofbirth = Dublin
countryofbirth = Ireland
currentclub = Bohemians
clubnumber = 9
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1995-1999
1997
1997
1998
1999
1999-2004
2004-2007
2007-present
clubs = Wolverhampton Wanderers
→ Exeter City (loan)
→ Cardiff City (loan)
→ Exeter City (loan)
Plymouth Argyle
Bohemians
Shelbourne
Bohemians
caps(goals) = 010 00(1)
010 00(5)
008 00(1)
009 00(0)
011 00(1)
180 (110)
056 00(20)
060 00(17)
nationalyears = 2002-2003
nationalteam = Republic of Ireland
nationalcaps(goals) = 2 (0)
pcupdate = 11/10/2008
ntupdate =

Glen Crowe (born December 25, 1977 in Dublin) is an Irish professional football forward who currently plays for Bohemians in Ireland, his second spell at the club. He is a prolific goalscorer in the League of Ireland and has represented the Republic of Ireland national football team on two occasions.

Glen began his career with Saint Mochta's Football Club where he played schoolboy football before moving to Lourdes Celtic. He then signed professionally for Wolves and scored on his first full game against Charlton Athletic in May 1996. He had loan spells at Cardiff City, Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle before returning to Dublin to join Roddy Collins' Bohs in pre-season 1999.

Crowe was top scorer for Bohemians in his first season with 9 league goals. The following season (2000/01), Glen formed a potent partnership with new-signing Trevor Molloy and broke the eircom League goal-scoring record by hitting 25 league goals (35 in all competitions) as Bohemians won their first league title since 1978 and their first league and FAI Cup double since 1928. He also scored in Bohemians' UEFA Cup run, both home and away against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. This form led Mick McCarthy to call him into the international squad in the summer of 2001 for the World Cup qualifiers against Portugal and Estonia.

He became the first Eircom League player to be capped by Ireland for 16 years (the last being Shamrock Rovers' Pat Byrne) in November 2002 when Don Givens selected him in a friendly against Greece. [http://www.soccerscene.ie/sssenior/matchdetails.php?id=384] He won his second cap for Ireland in April 2003 when coming on as a late substitute at Lansdowne Road in a friendly international against Norway.

Crowe once again starred as Bohs won their 2nd league title in 3 years in 2003 but left Bohemians for Dublin rivals Shelbourne in a controversial move in December 2004 where he formed a fearsome partnership with Jason Byrne. He claimed his third league winning medal in November 2006, ironically scoring the winning goal against his old club Bohemians to clinch Shels' third title in four seasons.

He re-joined Bohemians in early 2007 where he continues to show his devastating goalscoring prowess. He is currently Bohemians all-time record league goalscorer with 127 strikes. Glen set this record with a predatory strike against Shamrock Rovers on April 4 2008 to surpass the record previously held by Turlough O'Connor. He is currently 8th in the all time League of Ireland goalscoring list with 147 strikes. These stats are correct as of October 11 2008. Glen scored a huge goal in a match against Cork City on 8 August 2008, a potential title winning goal.

He has also scored more goals in European competition (10) than any other Irish domestic player.

Honours

*League of Ireland: 4
** Bohemians - 2000/01, 2002/03, 2008
** Shelbourne - 2006

*FAI Cup: 1
** Bohemians - 2001

*"'PFAI Player of the Year: 2
** Bohemians - 2000/01, 2002/03

*"'eircom League Player of the Year: 2
** Bohemians - 2000/01, 2001/02

*SWAI Personality of the Year: 1
** Bohemians - 2000/01

Records

*Crowe is currently the League of Ireland's eighth all time leading scorer at with 147 goals.
*He became the first Eircom League player to be capped by Ireland for 16 years in November 2002.
*Crowe is Bohemians all-time leading league goalscorer with 127 goals
*Crowe is Bohemians all-time leading goalscorer in European competition.