Mick Byrne

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Mick Byrne
Personal information
Full nameMichael Byrne
Date of birth (1960-01-14) 14 January 1960
Place of birthDublin, Republic of Ireland
Playing positionStriker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1981Bohemian45(8)
1981–1984Shelbourne?(23)
1984–1988Shamrock Rovers87(42)
1988ADO Den Haag12(2)
1988Shamrock Rovers0(0)
1988–1990Huddersfield Town[1]56(11)
1989–1990Shelbourne (loan)14(4)
1990–1991Shamrock Rovers16(4)
1991–1992Sligo Rovers27(4)
1992Dundalk3(0)
1992Shelbourne3(0)
1992–1995Monaghan United83(25)
1995Dundalk(loan)8(4)
1995–1996Dundalk16(3)
1996St James's Gate1(0)
1996Athlone Town1(0)
1996–1997Shamrock Rovers1(0)
National team
1984League of Ireland XI1(0)
Teams managed
1996–1997St James's Gate F.C.
1997–1999Shamrock 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.

Playing career

He made his Bohs debut in the 1979 FAI League Cup final win over Shamrock Rovers on 22 March 1979. He made his League of Ireland debut three days later.

He 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]

Byrne 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. He 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.

He was Rovers top goalscorer in 1984/85, 1986/87 and 1987/88 and made 5 appearances in Europe.

At the end of the 2012 League of Ireland season Byrne is joint twenty seventh in the all-time League of Ireland goalscoring list with 117 league goals[7]

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

League of Ireland: 3

  • Shamrock Rovers – 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87

FAI Cup: 3

  • Shamrock Rovers – 1985, 1986, 1987

League of Ireland Cup: 1

Leinster Senior Cup: 1

LFA presidents Cup:

  • Shamrock Rovers 1984/85

Individual

PFAI Player of the Year: 1

  • Shamrock Rovers – 1986/87

SWAI Personality of the Year: 1

  • Shamrock Rovers – 1986/87

SRFC Player of the Year: 1

  • Shamrock Rovers – 1987/88

References

  1. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN : 1946/47 – 2007/08, Newcastle Fans.
  2. "Ireland – List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 24 December 2012. 
  3. "Ireland – List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 24 December 2012. 
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