Personal information | |||
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Full name | Seamus Gibbons | ||
Date of birth | 19 May 1929 | ||
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||
Date of death | 9 June 2006 | (aged 77)||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Dublin City | |||
Home Farm | |||
Bohemians | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1946–1947 | Bohemians | 2 | (0) |
1947–1950 | Whitehall Rangers | ||
1950–1957 | St Patrick's Athletic | 115 | (108) |
1957–1958 | Holyhead Town | ||
1958 | Cork Hibernians | 14 | (1) |
1958–1959 | Dundalk | 19 | (11) |
International career | |||
195x–195x | League of Ireland XI | 9 | |
1952–1955 | Republic of Ireland | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Shay Gibbons (19 May 1929 – 9 June 2006[1]) was a Republic of Ireland international footballer who played for several League of Ireland clubs in the 1950s, most notably St Patrick's Athletic. He was League of Ireland Top Scorer on three occasions in 1951–52, 1952–53 and 1955–56.