fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place position article_title name
thomas kelly 1966-1967 1967 -- 1968 1968-1969 1969-1982 bohemian shamrock rovers st patrick 's athletic f.c. bohemian ? 8 12 ? 3 0 0 18 dublin , republic of ireland midfielder tommy kelly -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 tommy kelly
tommy kelly -lrb- footballer -rrb-

tommy kelly was an irish soccer player during the 1960s , 1970s and 1980s .
a dynamic midfielder , he is quite simply a bohemian f.c. legend , his career at dalymount park spanning 3 different decades .
he appeared in a club record 19 games in european competition and won 2 league of ireland titles .
he joined bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the `` b '' team .
he made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over drogheda on april 10 , 1966 .
he began next season as left back until bobby wade returned from injury , whereby kelly moved into the centre of midfield .
it is here where he would remain for the majority of his career .
he won the first of his 3 amateur international caps against wales in october 1966 .
bohs finished the 66/67 season as league runners-up and because of their strictly amateur status , they began to lose some of their key players to their professional rivals .
kelly was among the defectors as he moved to shamrock rovers .
however , he did n't stay long at glenmalure park , as he joined seán thomas in america midway through the 1967/68 season .
he made one appearance in european competition in his time at milltown .
tommy signed for st patricks athletic 2 months into the 1968/69 season .
tommy would soon return to his spiritual home of dalymount park , signing again for the `` gypsies '' in time for the 1969/70 season .
tommy won the man of the match as bohs beat sligo to win the 1970 fai cup final .
that cup victory meant that bohs entered european competition for the first time and kelly would go on to appear in 19 out of bohs ' first 20 games in europe .
more success followed and he was ever-present in bohs ' league winning campaign of 1974/75 .
he added another fai cup winners medal in 1976 and a 2nd league title was won in 1977/78 .
kelly was still going strong as bohs narrowly missed out on winning the title the following season .
with his 39th birthday looming , tommy hung his boots at the end of the 1981/82 season - his last match was the fai cup final defeat by limerick .
tommy kelly made 575 competitive appearances for bohemian f.c. , scoring 31 goals .
he also won league of ireland xi representative honours .
his son ian kelly also played for rovers and bohs .
