Dermot Keely

Dermot Keely
Dermot Keely
Personal information
Date of birth 8 March 1954 (1954-03-08) (age 57)[1]
Place of birth Ireland
Playing position Manager
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1975 Home Farm
1975–1978 St. Patrick's Athletic
1978–1981 Dundalk
1981–1983 Glentoran
1983 UCD
1983–1987 Shamrock Rovers
National team
League of Ireland 2 (0)
Teams managed
1983 UCD
1986–1988 Shamrock Rovers
1989–1992 Sligo Rovers
1992–1993 Longford Town
1993–1996 Dundalk
1996 Finn Harps
1996 Athlone Town
1996–1998 Home Farm Everton
1998–2002 Shelbourne
2002–2003 Kildare County
2003-2003 Derry City
2005–2006 Dublin City
2007–2010 Shelbourne
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Dermot Keely, (born 8 March 1954 in Dublin) is the former manager of Irish football team Shelbourne.

Contents

Family

Keely's family have played League of Ireland football at various levels. His late father Peter Keely played for Shelbourne, his brother Joe played on the same Home Farm FAI Cup winning side of 1775 as Dermot Keely himself. And his son Alan Keely currently plays for Shelbourne.[2]

Player

As a player Keely started with Home Farm and then signed for St. Patrick's Athletic under Barry Bridges who appointed him club captain. In June 1977 he was about to depart for Adelaide on a 2 year contract when the deal fell through.

Moved to Dundalk where he made his debut against Shamrock Rovers in September 1978. In his first season the Co. Louth outfit won the domestic double. In 1981 Keely captained Dundalk to win the FAI Cup. The League Cup was also won this season.

Keely then signed for Glentoran in the Irish League where in his two seasons there he won the Irish Cup, a Gold Cup and an Ulster Cup.

Keely's time with Dundalk and Glentoran saw him play in notable European Cup ties. In 1979, Dundalk reached the second round of the European Cup and were drawn with Celtic. The first leg saw Dundalk produce a notable display to come away with a 3–2 defeat at Parkhead. In the return leg in front of a packed Oriel Park, Dundalk missed a last-minute opportunity to win the tie on away goals and the game finished 0–0. This is regarded as one of the best performances by a League of Ireland club in European competition.

Two years later, Keely played his part in Glentoran's run to the second round of the European Cup. In the first leg against CSKA Sofia, they lost 2–0. However, the return leg saw Glentoran take a 2–0 lead, forcing the game into extra time. With only five minutes remaining, CSKA scored the goal they needed. The tie finished 3–2 on aggregate, which had been the closest Glentoran came to reaching the last eight of European competition since 1974.[3]

Player-manager

Keely's first managerial job was as UCD player-manager.[1] However after just two months at Belfield Jim McLaughlin persuaded Keely to sign for Shamrock Rovers. He made his debut against Athlone Town in November 1983. He scored his first goal for Rovers in a 3–2 defeat to Shelbourne at Harold's Cross on the 11th of December 1983. When McLaughlin left at the end of the 1985/86 season to manage his home club Derry City Dermot was appointed player-manager on the 16th of May.

In the 1986/87 season, Rovers controversially announced the sale of Glenmalure Park near the end of season. However, Rovers won another double in this their final season at Milltown to bring Keely's Rovers haul to 4 League championships and 3 FAI Cups.

The 1987/88 season started with Rovers controversially playing at Tolka Park. Rovers fans boycotted the ground en masse. Every game was picketed and with the crowds practically gone the team invariably suffered. Keely was quoted years later as saying:

I didn't realise the depth of feeling about Glenmalure Park and all I wanted to do was win the League for Shamrock Rovers.

—D Keely , The Hoops (ISBN 0-7171-2121-6)

He resigned after the last game of the season on the 8th of April 1988. During his time at Rovers he won one Inter-League cap and represented the club 6 times in European competition.

Manager

He then took over as manager of Sligo Rovers in 1989 and achieved promotion in his first season. He guided Sligo Rovers to their highest Premier Division place in a decade in the 1990/91 season by finishing 5th.

After a brief spell at Longford Town he took over at Dundalk where he won the League Championship in 1995. He then guided Finn Harps to promotion to the Premier Division in 1996. After managing Athlone Town he took over the reins at Home Farm Everton where he won the League of Ireland First Division Shield in 1998.

In the calendar year 1996 Keely managed four clubs: Dundalk, Finn Harps, Athlone Town and Home Farm.

He took over as manager of Shelbourne in July 1998 [4] and won two championships (1999–2000 and 2001–02) and one FAI Cup (2000) in his time at Tolka Park. He also guided Shels to victory over Macedonian side Sloga Jugomagnat in the first round of 2000–01 Champions League qualifiers. Shels 1–0 win in the first leg in Skopje was the first away win for a League of Ireland side in any UEFA competitions for eighteen years.

Keely then became the first manager of new league club Kildare County in 2002. After a credible 5th place finish he then walked out to manage Derry City lasting only 3 months[5]

After a spell out of the game he then took over at Dublin City.[6] He then took over the management position at Shelbourne FC in 2007 and in his first season back finished fifth in the first division. In his second season in charge, Shelbourne lead the division going into the final game, and needed a home win against mid-table Limerick to gain promotion, but were denied by a 92nd-minute equaliser, and so were overhauled by Dundalk, who won away to Kildare County. On 27 May 2010, Keely stepped down as manager of Shelbourne, and is set to become Shelbourne's youth team manager and community development officer.[7]

Keely has also been working as a maths teacher in De La Salle College Churchtown for over 20 years and has a weekly column in the Irish Sun.

Honours

As a player

As a manager

References

Sources

Preceded by
Damien Richardson
Shelbourne manager
1998–2002
Succeeded by
Pat Fenlon
Preceded by
-
Kildare County Manager
2002–2003
Succeeded by
Eric Hannigan
Preceded by
Pat Fenlon
Shelbourne manager
2007–2010
Succeeded by
Alan Mathews



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