Daniel O'Reilly (footballer)

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Daniel O'Reilly
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 (age 26)
Place of birth Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
Position(s) Centre back
Club information
Current team
 Hamilton Academical
Number 34
Youth career
Cherry Orchard
2010–2014 Fulham
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Fulham 0 (0)
2014 → Walton Casuals (loan)
2014 Hereford United 0 (0)
2014 Bishop's Stortford
2015 Bray Wanderers 14 (0)
2016 Longford Town 8 (0)
2016 Eastbourne Borough 4 (0)
2017–2018 Longford Town 52 (4)
2019 Finn Harps 33 (2)
2020 Shelbourne 9 (0)
2021 Drogheda United 36 (1)
2022– Hamilton Academical 1 (0)
National team
2012 Republic of Ireland U17 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 January 2022

Daniel O'Reilly (born 11 April 1995) is an Irish footballer who plays for Hamilton Academical as a centre back.[1][2]

Early life[]

O'Reilly was born in Dublin.[2] He grew up in Celbridge and attended Salesian College Celbridge.[3]

Club career[]

O'Reilly played underage football for Cherry Orchard before being signed by Fulham Academy in November 2010 aged 15.[3] On 30 January 2014, O'Reilly was sent to Walton Casuals on a one month loan.[4] He stayed at Fulham in four years before being released, then had a brief stay at Southern Premier League Hereford United in 2014 before the club collapsed.[5][6] He subsequently moved to Bishop's Stortford and then returned to Ireland to play with Bray Wanderers. After a brief period at Eastbourne Borough, O'Reilly returned in 2016 to the League of Ireland, playing with Longford Town and Finn Harps.[7][8]

At the end of the 2019 season he was voted Supporter's Player of the Year at Finn Harps. In November 2019 O'Reilly signed for Shelbourne.[9] In December 2020 he moved to 2020 League of Ireland First Division Winners Drogheda United ahead of their first season back in the League of Ireland Premier Division.[10]

On 1 January 2022, it was announced that O'Reilly had signed for Scottish Championship side Hamilton Academical.[11]

International career[]

O'Reilly was selected as an unused sub for the Republic of Ireland U17 team in 2012, in a qualifying game against Kazakhstan.[12]

Career statistics[]

As of 4 January 2022[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[a] League Cup[b] Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Fulham 2013–14 Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
Walton Casuals (loan) 2013–14 Isthmian Division One South — — —
Hereford United 2014–15 Southern Football League 0 0 — — — 0 0
Bishop's Stortford 2014–15 National League South — — —
Bray Wanderers 2015 League of Ireland Premier Division 14 0 0 0 1 0 1[c] 0 16 0
Longford Town 2016 League of Ireland Premier Division 8 0 1 0 1 0 2[c] 0 12 0
Eastbourne Borough 2016–17 National League South 4 0 4 0 — 4[d] 0 12 0
Longford Town 2017 League of Ireland First Division 25 2 3 0 1 0 1[c] 0 30 2
2018 27 2 2 1 2 1 1[c] 0 32 4
Longford Town total 60 4 6 1 4 1 4 0 66 6
Finn Harps 2019 League of Ireland Premier Division 33 2 1 0 1 0 2[e] 0 37 2
Shelbourne 2020 League of Ireland Premier Division 9 0 2 0 — 1[f] 0 12 0
Drogheda United 2021 League of Ireland Premier Division 36 1 0 0 — — 36 1
Hamilton Academical 2021–22 Scottish Championship 1 0 — — — 1 0
Career total 157 7 13 1 5 1 12 0 188 9
  1. ^ Includes FA Cup, FAI Cup & Scottish Cup
  2. ^ Includes EFL Cup, League of Ireland Cup & Scottish League Cup
  3. ^ a b c d Appearances in Leinster Senior Cup
  4. ^ Two appearances in FA Trophy, two appearances in Sussex Senior Challenge Cup
  5. ^ Appearances in the 2019 League of Ireland Promotion/Relegation Play-Off
  6. ^ Appearances in the 2020 League of Ireland Promotion/Relegation Play-Off

Honours[]

Individual[]

Longford Town
Finn Harps
  • Supporter's Player of the Year: 1 (2019)
Drogheda United
  • Supporter's Player of the Year: 1 (2021)

References[]

  1. ^ Daniel O'Reilly at Soccerway
  2. ^ a b "Daniel O'Reilly - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport UK.
  3. ^ a b "Daniel O'Reilly". www.facebook.com.
  4. ^ FC, Fulham. "Fulham FC". Fulham FC.
  5. ^ "Extratime.com - Extratime.ie - Daniel O'Reilly". www.extratime.com.
  6. ^ Wilson, Jonathan; Premachandran, Dileep; Corbett, James; Clarke, Stuart Roy; Lyttleton, Ben; Murray, Scott (11 March 2015). "The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Sixteen". Blizzard Media Ltd – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Daniel O'Reilly – Longford Town FC • Official Website". ltfc.ie. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Extratime.ie - Daniel O'Reilly". www.extratime.ie.
  9. ^ "Daniel O'Reilly".
  10. ^ "Daniel O'Reilly Signs For Drogheda United". 19 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Dan's the man for Accies". 1 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Kazakhstan 1 - 1 Republic of Ireland | 2012 - Under 17 | 2004890 | Football Association of Ireland". www.fai.ie.
  13. ^ "Republic of Ireland - D. O'Reilly - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
  14. ^ Blake, Ben. "UCD and Shelbourne strongly represented in PFAI First Division Team of the Year". The42.
  15. ^ "Daniel O'Reilly makes the PFAI First Division Team Of The Year – Longford Town FC • Official Website". ltfc.ie. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

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