Shay Given

**Shay Given** (born 20 April 1976) is an Irish retired football player.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|FA Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Blackburn Rovers|1994–95|Premier League|0|0|0|0|1|0|—|1|0||
|1996–97|Premier League|2|0|0|0|0|0|—|2|0||||
|Swindon Town (loan)|1995–96|Second Division|5|0|0|0|0|0|—|5|0|||
|Sunderland (loan)|1995–96|First Division|17|0|0|0|0|0|—|17|0|||
|rowspan="13"|Newcastle United|1997–98|Premier League|24|0|4|0|0|0|6|0|34|0|
|1998–99|Premier League|31|0|6|0|2|0|1|0|40|0|||
|1999–2000|Premier League|14|0|2|0|1|0|0|0|17|0|||
|2000–01|Premier League|34|0|0|0|1|0|—|35|0||||
|2001–02|Premier League|38|0|5|0|1|0|6|0|50|0|||
|2002–03|Premier League|38|0|1|0|0|0|12|0|51|0|||
|2003–04|Premier League|38|0|2|0|0|0|13|0|53|0|||
|2004–05|Premier League|36|0|3|0|1|0|12|0|52|0|||
|2005–06|Premier League|38|0|4|0|2|0|3|0|47|0|||
|2006–07|Premier League|22|0|2|0|1|0|8|0|33|0|||
|2007–08|Premier League|19|0|3|0|2|0|—|24|0||||
|2008–09|Premier League|22|0|2|0|2|0|—|26|0||||
|rowspan="4"|Manchester City|2008–09|Premier League|15|0|0|0|0|0|6|0|21|0|
|2009–10|Premier League|35|0|3|0|6|0|—|44|0||||
|2010–11|Premier League|0|0|0|0|1|0|3|0|4|0|||
|rowspan="5"|Aston Villa|2011–12|Premier League|33|0|1|0|1|0|—|35|0||
|2012–13|Premier League|2|0|2|0|5|0|—|9|0||||
|2013–14|Premier League|0|0|0|0|0|0|—|0|0||||
|2014–15|Premier League|2|0|6|0|2|0|—|10|0||||
|Middlesbrough (loan)|2013–14|Championship|16|0|0|0|0|0|—|16|0|||
|rowspan="3"|Stoke City|2015–16|Premier League|3|0|0|0|2|0|—|5|0||
|2016–17|Premier League|5|0|0|0|1|0|—|6|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="21"|Republic of Ireland|1996|8|0|
|1997|6|0|||
|1998|6|0|||
|1999|3|0|||
|2000|3|0|||
|2001|10|0|||
|2002|11|0|||
|2003|8|0|||
|2004|11|0|||
|2005|8|0|||
|2006|4|0|||
|2007|7|0|||
|2008|6|0|||
|2009|11|0|||
|2010|7|0|||
|2011|11|0|||
|2012|5|0|||
|2013|0|0|||
|2014|2|0|||
|2015|6|0|||
|2016|1|0|||

## Honours

**Sunderland**
- Football League First Division: 1995–96

**Newcastle United**
- FA Cup: runner-up 1997–98
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2006

**Manchester City**
- FA Cup: 2010–11

**Aston Villa**
- FA Cup runner-up: 2014–15

**Republic of Ireland**
- Nations Cup: 2011

**Individual**
- PFA Team of the Year: 2001–02 Premier League, 2005–06 Premier League
- North-East FWA Player of the Year: 2002, 2006
- Newcastle United Player of the Year: 2004–05, 2005–06
- FAI Senior International Player of the Year: 2005, 2006

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Shay Given
- **image**: Shay Given.jpg
- **caption**: Given playing for Manchester City F.C., Manchester City in 2010
- **fullname**: Séamus John James Given
- **birth place**: Lifford, Ireland
- **height**: 1.85 m
- **position**: Goalkeeper (association football), Goalkeeper
- **youthclubs1**: Lifford Celtic
- **youthyears2**: 1991–1994
- **youthclubs2**: Celtic F.C., Celtic
- **years1**: 1994–1997
- **clubs1**: Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers
- **caps1**: 2
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 1994
- **clubs2**: → Swindon Town F.C., Swindon Town (loan)
- **caps2**: 0
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 1996
- **clubs3**: → Swindon Town F.C., Swindon Town (loan)
- **caps3**: 5
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 1996
- **clubs4**: → Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland (loan)
- **caps4**: 17
- **goals4**: 0
- **years5**: 1997–2009
- **clubs5**: Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United
- **caps5**: 354
- **goals5**: 1
- **years6**: 2009–2011
- **clubs6**: Manchester City F.C., Manchester City
- **caps6**: 50
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2011–2015
- **clubs7**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa
- **caps7**: 37
- **goals7**: 0
- **years8**: 2013–2014
- **clubs8**: → Middlesbrough F.C., Middlesbrough (loan)
- **caps8**: 16
- **goals8**: 0
- **years9**: 2015–2017
- **clubs9**: Stoke City F.C., Stoke City
- **caps9**: 8
- **goals9**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 489
- **totalgoals**: 1
- **nationalteam1**: Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team, Republic of Ireland U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1996–2016
- **nationalteam2**: Republic of Ireland national football team, Republic of Ireland
- **nationalcaps2**: 134
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs1**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa (assistant manager)
- **manageryears2**: 2020
- **managerclubs2**: Derby County F.C., Derby County (co-interim manager)