Kevin Foley (footballer)

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Kevin Foley
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Foley playing for Wolves in April 2010
Personal information
Full name Kevin Patrick Foley
Date of birth (1984-11-01) 1 November 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth London, England
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Position(s) Right back / Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Ipswich Town
Youth career
1995–2002 Luton Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2007 Luton Town 151 (3)
2007–2015 Wolverhampton Wanderers 194 (5)
2014 → Blackpool (loan) 5 (0)
2014–2015 → Blackpool (loan) 4 (0)
2015 Copenhagen 4 (0)
2016 - Ipswich Town 0 (0)
International career‡
2004–2006 Republic of Ireland Under 21 8 (1)
2006 Republic of Ireland B 1 (0)
2009–2012 Republic of Ireland 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 June 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 June 2011
Foley won Wolves' Player of the Season Award in 2009.

Kevin Patrick Foley (born 1 November 1984) is an English-born Irish international footballer who currently plays for Ipswich Town F.C.

Foley, a right back also able to operate in midfield, previously spent twelve years at Luton Town before joining Wolves in 2007 with whom he won promotion to the Premier League in 2009.

Club career

Luton Town

Born in Luton, England, to Irish parents, Foley joined hometown club Luton Town at the age of nine, and progressed through the youth ranks until graduating to the first team. He finally broke into the first team squad in 2002–03, making his league debut on 19 April 2003, in a 2–2 draw with Bristol City. The following season he established himself as first choice right-back at the club and was named Luton's Young Player of the Season. He also won this award the following season. Foley won promotion with Luton to the Football League Championship in 2005, and spent two seasons at this level before the club dropped back into League One in 2007. Foley made a total of 151 appearances for Luton, scoring three times.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 14 August 2007, Foley joined Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee,[2] before making his club debut the following day in a League Cup tie against Bradford.[3] He scored his first league goal for the club on 22 September 2007 against Norwich City at Molineux.[4] He ended his first season for Wolves as a regular member of their starting XI, starting 42 games out of 48, missing only six league games.

The 2008–09 season saw him part of the Wolves team that won the Football League Championship and so returned to the Premier League. He made a total of 47 appearances (scoring once), missing only one league game. His performances won him Wolves' Player of the Season Award, voted by the club's fans,[5] as well as a new four-year deal with the club that would keep him at Wolves until at least summer 2013.[6]

Foley made his Premier League debut in the team's opening fixture against West Ham on 15 August 2009. During the 0–2 defeat though he sustained a medial knee ligament injury that kept him out for four months, meaning it was not until December 2009 that he got a sustained run in the team. When he did play it was mostly at right-midfield and central-midfield in a 4-5-1 formation, with players such as Ronald Zubar and Richard Stearman by now favoured in Foley's preferred right-back position.[7]

During the 2010–11 season, Foley scored his only Premier League goals, when he netted in consecutive home games, against Bolton then Sunderland, respectively.[8][9] He made a career-best of 33 top flight appearances during the campaign as the team narrowly avoided relegation. At the conclusion of the season he signed another contract extension, due to run until summer 2015.[10]

He began the following season but soon had to undergo surgery to treat a long-running ankle problem.[11] Having returned to fitness in January 2012, he was part of the Wolves squad that suffered relegation under Terry Connor.

After a second successive relegation, Foley was rarely used as new manager Kenny Jackett sought to rebuild a new team. In February 2014 Foley agreed a one-month loan deal with Championship side Blackpool,[12] for whom he made five appearances but was not offered the chance to remain until the end of the season.[13] In November 2014, having not featured for Wolves in the meantime, Foley was again loaned out to Blackpool in a deal that ran until January 2015.[14]

On 12 January 2015 his contract with Wolves - that had six months remaining - was cancelled.[15] In total he made 213 appearances for the club, scoring six goals.

Copenhagen

On 12 January 2015, within hours of confirmation that he had left Wolves, Foley signed a six-months contract with the Danish club F.C. Copenhagen, where he reunited with his former Wolves manager Ståle Solbakken.[16]

In November 2015, after a two week trial with Shrewsbury Town, Foley began training with Reading F.C. with the view to a short-term contract.[17] Foley left Reading without earning a contract.

Ipswich Town

After starting a game for Ipswich Town's U21's in January 2016. Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy recalled Foley impressing him for the Hatters against his Wolves team: “He played against us for Luton at Wolves and at the time had some good wide players, Matt Jarvis and Michael Kightly, and he saw them all off. I signed him on the back of that and he was different class for me. He’s a great bloke, he’d fit in fabulously with the lads, if he’s all right, if he’s fully fit, but he looks it. He’s trained with us and he looks the part at the moment, so hopefully he’ll get through the game today. He was out playing in Denmark [with FC Copenhagen], he hurt his shoulder and he had to have an operation in the summer. That doesn’t bother me too much. If it was his legs it might be bothering me, but it was his shoulder.He’s a gentleman, he’s a lovely fella, he’d fit in perfectly with the rest of the lads. I hope he proves that he’s worth it.” [18]

On 12th January 2016, Kevin Foley signed for Championship side Ipswich Town for a deal extending to the rest of the 2015-2016 season to replace the outgoing left back Johnathan Parr.

International career

Born and raised in England, Foley qualified to play for Ireland as his parents are from County Kerry. He made his debut for Republic of Ireland's under-21 team in May 2004 against Scotland. In 2005 he was named as the FAI Under-21 Player of the Year.

On 29 May 2009, Foley made his senior debut for Ireland against Nigeria in an international friendly.[19] On 26 March 2011, he made his first competitive start for Ireland against Macedonia at right-back playing the full 90 minutes.[20] He played two full games during Ireland's success at the 2011 Nations Cup.[21]

Having been part of the team that achieved Ireland's first qualification for a major tournament since 2002, Foley was initially named in Giovanni Trapattoni's 23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2012.[22] However, he suffered problems with a hamstring during pre-tournament preparations and then did not make the final list.[23] Foley said he "felt betrayed" by Trapattoni's decision to exclude him on the morning of the squad submission.[24][25] His replacement, Paul McShane, did not play a game at the tournament. Foley has not yet returned.[26]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 7 June 2015[27]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Luton Town 2002–03 Second Division 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 0 4 0
2003–04 33 0 3 0 2 0 - - 38 0
2004-05 League One 39 3 2 0 0 0 - - 41 0
2005-06 Championship 38 0 1 0 0 0 - - 39 0
2006-07 39 0 2 0 3 0 - - 44 0
Total 151 3 8 0 5 0 - - 2 0 166 3
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2007–08 Championship 44 1 3 0 2 0 - - 49 1
2008–09 45 0 0 0 2 0 - - 47 0
2009–10 Premier League 25 0 3 0 1 0 - - 29 0
2010–11 33 2 0 0 3 1 - - 36 1
2011–12 16 0 1 0 1 0 - - 18 0
2012–13 Championship 26 0 1 0 0 0 - - 27 0
2013–14 League One 5 0 0 0 1 0 - 1 0 7 0
2014–15 Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 0
Total 194 3 8 0 10 1 - - 1 0 213 4
Blackpool (loan) 2013–14 Championship 5 0 0 0 0 0 – – 5 0
Blackpool (loan) 2014–15 Championship 4 0 0 0 0 0 – – 4 0
F.C. Copenhagen 2014–15 Danish Superliga 4 0 0 0 – – – 4 0
Career total 358 6 16 0 15 1 - - 3 0 392 7

International

Republic of Ireland
Year Apps Goals
2009 1 0
2010 2 0
2011 5 0
Total 8 0

Statistics accurate as of match played 7 June 2011[28]

Honours

Club

Luton Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Copenhagen

International

Republic of Ireland

Individual

  • Luton Town Young Player of the Season: 2002-2003, 2003–04, 2004–05
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers Player of the Season: 2008–09
  • FAI Under-21 Player of the Year: 2005

References

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