Stephen Kelly (footballer)

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Stephen Kelly
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During a "welcome ceremony" for the Irish squad in Sopot before Euro 2012
Personal information
Full name Stephen Michael David Kelly[1]
Date of birth (1983-09-06) 6 September 1983 (age 40)[1]
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
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Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Rotherham United
Number 12
Youth career
– Belvedere
000?–2000 Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2006 Tottenham Hotspur 37 (2)
2003 → Southend United (loan) 10 (0)
2003 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 7 (0)
2003 → Watford (loan) 13 (0)
2006–2009 Birmingham City 79 (0)
2009 → Stoke City (loan) 6 (0)
2009–2013 Fulham 44 (0)
2013–2015 Reading 45 (1)
2015– Rotherham United 0 (0)
International career‡
1999–2000 Republic of Ireland U16 12 (1)
2002–2003 Republic of Ireland U20
2003–2005 Republic of Ireland U21 17 (0)
2006– Republic of Ireland 38 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:11, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Stephen Michael David Kelly (born 6 September 1983) is an Irish footballer who plays for Rotherham United in the Championship. He plays as a defender, primarily at right back. He was part of the team that secured the Republic of Ireland's qualification for UEFA Euro 2012.

Kelly began his professional career at Tottenham Hotspur and also played for Southend United, Queens Park Rangers, Watford, Birmingham City, Stoke City and Fulham before joining Reading in 2013.

Club career

Tottenham Hotspur

Kelly was born in Dublin, where he played football for Belvedere before joining Tottenham Hotspur through their youth programme.[1][3] He was something of an understudy to Stephen Carr (who was subsequently transferred to Newcastle United) and then to Paul Stalteri. He made his Spurs first team debut in 2003 and then went on to make 37 Premier League appearances, scoring two league goals, against Birmingham City[4] and Aston Villa.[5]

Birmingham City

Birmingham City were believed to be winning the race to sign the defender in January 2006 only for Tottenham to pull the plug on the deal because they had an injury crisis in defence. Kelly did join Birmingham, however, on 28 June 2006 for an initial fee of £750,000, possibly rising to £1.25 million depending on his success with the club.[6]

Kelly was the only outfield player in the 2007–08 Premier League season to play every minute of every game for his club.[7]

Stoke City (loan)

On 4 February 2009, Kelly joined Stoke City on loan from Birmingham City until the end of the 2008–09 season. Stoke City had to wait for 36 hours after the January transfer window shut for confirmation of the deal.[8] Kelly made his Stoke debut in their next game, a 2–0 defeat to Sunderland,[9] but picked up a hamstring injury while on international duty which kept him out of Stoke's next fixture.[10]

Fulham

On 16 June 2009, Kelly signed a three-year contract with Fulham, making him the club's first signing of the 2009 summer window. Kelly said he was delighted to join the Cottagers and was looking forward to representing the club in both the Premier League and Europa League.[11]

Reading

Kelly joined Reading on 11 January 2013 signing a two-and-a-half year contract.[12] He made his début on 19 January in Reading's 2–1 away win over Newcastle United at St James' Park, made his home début a week later against Sheffield United in a 4–0 FA Cup win, and soon afterwards, stated that "regardless of what happens now and for the rest of the season, coming here is the best decision I've made in football".[13] Kelly started every game in what remained of the season, and the team were relegated to the Championship.

He was allocated squad number 3 for the 2013–14 season.[14] Kelly scored his first goal for Reading on 1 January 2014, a 95th-minute header from Royston Drenthe's free kick that gave his side a draw at home to Nottingham Forest.[15]

Kelly left Reading at the end of the 2014-15 season, despite being offered a new contract by the club.[16]

Rotherham United

On 19 November 2015, Kelly joined Championship club Rotherham United on a deal until the end of the 2015–16 season. He was assigned the number 12 shirt.[17]

International career

Kelly won Irish caps at junior levels and is now a first team member of the Irish national squad, making his debut versus Chile. He represented the Republic of Ireland Under-16 team at the 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship and the Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

On 29 March 2011, Kelly was named as Ireland captain for the friendly against Uruguay at the Aviva Stadium.[18]

He was a squad member at UEFA Euro 2012 but saw no game time. Then, despite injuries to Richard Dunne and Sean St Ledger, manager Giovanni Trapattoni left him on the bench for the 6-1 home defeat to Germany in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C. Days later, Kelly had a training ground row with assistant manager Marco Tardelli, and was left so upset by the incident that he did not want to board the plane for the game against the Faroe Islands.[19]

Career statistics

Club

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Kelly with Fulham in 2009
As of match played 25 March 2014
Club statistics
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Tottenham Hotspur 2002–03[20] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2003–04[21] Premier League 11 0 0 0 — — 11 0
2004–05[22] Premier League 17 2 5 0 1 0 — 23 2
2005–06[23] Premier League 9 0 1 0 0 0 — 10 0
Tottenham Hotspur total 37 2 6 0 1 0 — 44 2
Southend United (loan) 2002–03[20] Division Three 10 0 — — — 10 0
Queens Park Rangers (loan) 2002–03[20] Division Two 7 0 — — 2[lower-alpha 1] 0 9 0
Watford (loan) 2003–04[21] Division One 13 0 — — — 13 0
Birmingham City 2006–07[24] Championship 36 0 1 0 4 0 — 41 0
2007–08[25] Premier League 38 0 1 0 1 0 — 40 0
2008–09[26] Championship 5 0 1 0 1 0 — 7 0
Birmingham City total 79 0 3 0 6 0 — 88 0
Stoke City (loan) 2008–09[26] Premier League 6 0 — — — 6 0
Fulham 2009–10[27] Premier League 8 0 3 0 1 0 10[lower-alpha 2] 0 22 0
2010–11[28] Premier League 10 0 0 0 2 0 — 12 0
2011–12[29] Premier League 24 0 2 0 1 0 7[lower-alpha 2] 0 34 0
2012–13[30] Premier League 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Fulham total 44 0 5 0 5 0 17 0 71 0
Reading 2012–13[30] Premier League 16 0 2 0 — — 18 0
2013–14[31] Championship 14 1 1 0 0 0 — 15 1
2014–15[32] Championship 15 0 3 0 0 0 — 18 0
Reading total 45 1 6 0 0 0 — 51 1
Rotherham United 2015–16 Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
Rotherham United total 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
Career total 241 3 20 0 12 0 19 0 292 3
  1. ↑ Appearances in Football League play-offs
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 19 November 2013.[33]
Republic of Ireland national team
Year Apps Goals
2006 3 0
2007 6 0
2008 3 0
2009 3 0
2010 5 0
2011 9 0
2012 3 0
2013 5 0
Total 37 0

Honours

Birmingham City

Fulham

International

References

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