- Mick Byrne
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Mick Byrne Personal information Full name Michael Byrne Date of birth 14 January 1960 Place of birth Dublin, Ireland Playing position Striker Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1978–1981 Bohemian ? (8) 1981–1984 Shelbourne ? (23) 1984–1988 Shamrock Rovers ? (42) 1988 ADO Den Haag 12 (2) 1988 Shamrock Rovers 0 (0) 1988–1990 Huddersfield Town[1] 56 (11) 1989–1990 → Shelbourne (loan) 14 (4) 1990–1991 Shamrock Rovers 16 (4) 1991–1992 Sligo Rovers 27 (4) 1992 Dundalk 3 (0) 1992 Shelbourne 3 (0) 1992–1995 Monaghan United 83 (25) 1995 → Dundalk(loan) 8 (4) 1995–1996 Dundalk 16 (3) 1996 St James's Gate 1 (0) 1996 Athlone Town 1 (0) 1996–1997 Shamrock Rovers 1 (0) Teams managed 1996-1997 St James's Gate F.C. 1997-1999 Shamrock Rovers * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Michael "Mick" Byrne (born 14 January 1960 in Dublin) was an Irish football player during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Playing career
He made his league debut as a Bohemians player on 25 March 1979 and had a spell at Shelbourne, where he was Player of the Month in February 1982.[2]
He attracted the interest of Manchester City during his time at Shels.[3]
He signed for Shamrock Rovers in the summer of 1984.
In each of his three seasons at Milltown he won the domestic double as well as representing the League in the Olympic qualifiers. He was the league top scorer in the 1986/87 season[4] and made 6 appearances in European competition. Transfer talks with St. Etienne [5] and Feyenoord[6] didn't work out so after 72 goals in 146 games, in January 1988 Mick signed for FC Den Haag thus ending an extraordinarily successful period at Rovers.
He briefly re-signed for Rovers again in July 1988 but after 3 goals in 6 games he left for Huddersfield Town F.C. the following month for £20,000. After two seasons in which he scored 11 goals in 56 league games, he came back to Rovers for the clubs first season in the RDS but left in January 1991 after 5 goals in 20 appearances for Sligo Rovers as the club had an abundance of strikers. At Sligo he scored 6 goals in 34 total appearances, 27 in the league.
During his time at Rovers he scored 46 league goals and 10 goals in the FAI Cup. Also played in 3 1988 Summer Olympics qualifiers scoring twice.
He had two more spells at Shels and also represented Dundalk F.C., Monaghan United, St. James's Gate F.C. (one game) and Athlone Town during his career. With Monaghan he finished First Division top scorer in the 1992/93 season as his 15 league goals helped them to promotion.
Currently he is 25th in the all time goalscoring charts in the League of Ireland with 117 goals.[7]
He was Rovers top goalscorer in 1984/85, 1986/87 and 1987/88 and made 5 appearances in Europe.
Management career
In 1996 he managed St. James's Gate F.C. for two games, playing once, before their resignation from the league. He then returned to Rovers as assistant manager to Pat Byrne before taking over as the manager for the 1997/98 season. In his first season in charge he guided the club to a win in Europe[8] but his second season ended badly as Rovers finished 8th. He was replaced by Damien Richardson.
Honours
Team
- Shamrock Rovers - 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87
FAI Cup: 3- Shamrock Rovers - 1985, 1986, 1987
League of Ireland Cup: 1- Bohemians - 1979
Leinster Senior Cup: 1
- Bohemians - 1979/80
Individual
- Shamrock Rovers - 1986/87
SWAI Personality of the Year: 1
- Shamrock Rovers - 1986/87
- Shamrock Rovers - 1987/88
References
Categories:- 1960 births
- Living people
- Bohemian F.C. players
- Shelbourne F.C. players
- Republic of Ireland association footballers
- ADO Den Haag players
- Eredivisie players
- Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
- Huddersfield Town F.C. players
- League of Ireland players
- League of Ireland managers
- Dundalk F.C. players
- Sligo Rovers F.C. players
- Shamrock Rovers F.C. managers
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