Daniel O'Reilly (footballer)

Daniel O'Reilly (born 11 April 1995) is an Irish professional footballer who last played for Hamilton Academical as a centre back.[1][2]

Daniel O'Reilly
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995
Place of birth Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
Cherry Orchard
2010–2014 Fulham
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Fulham 0 (0)
2014 Hereford United
2015 Bray Wanderers 14 (0)
2016 Longford Town 15 (0)
2016 Eastbourne Borough 8 (0)
2017–2018 Longford Town 52 (4)
2019 Finn Harps 33 (2)
2020 Shelbourne 9 (0)
2021 Drogheda United 36 (1)
2022–2023 Hamilton Academical 64 (6)
International career
2012 Republic of Ireland U17 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 June 2023

Early life

O'Reilly was born in Dublin.[2] He grew up in Celbridge and attended Salesian College Celbridge.[3]

Club career

O'Reilly played underage football for Cherry Orchard before being signed by Fulham Academy in November 2010 aged 15.[3] On 30 January 2014, O'Reilly was sent to Walton Casuals on a one-month loan.[4] He stayed at Fulham in four years before being released, then had a brief stay at Southern Premier League Hereford United in 2014 before the club collapsed.[5][6] He subsequently moved to Bishop's Stortford and then returned to Ireland to play with Bray Wanderers. After a brief period at Eastbourne Borough, O'Reilly returned in 2016 to the League of Ireland, playing with Longford Town and Finn Harps.[7][8]

At the end of the 2019 season he was voted Supporter's Player of the Year at Finn Harps. In November 2019 O'Reilly signed for Shelbourne.[9]

In December 2020 he moved to 2020 League of Ireland First Division Winners Drogheda United ahead of their first season back in the League of Ireland Premier Division, where he was voted Club Player of the Year in his only season at the club.[10]

On 1 January 2022, Daniel's agency (Stephen Hunt Management) announced that O'Reilly had signed for Scottish Championship side Hamilton Academical, after rejecting several offers from Ireland.[11]

International career

O'Reilly was selected as an unused sub for the Republic of Ireland U17 team in 2012, in a qualifying game against Kazakhstan.[12]

Career statistics
As of match played on 20 May 2023[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Fulham 2013–14 Premier League 000000—00
Walton Casuals (loan) 2013–14 Isthmian Division One South ———
Hereford United 2014–15 Southern Football League 00———00
Bishop's Stortford 2014–15 National League South ———
Bray Wanderers 2015 LOI Premier Division 14000101[lower-alpha 3]0160
Longford Town 2016 LOI Premier Division 8010102[lower-alpha 3]0120
Eastbourne Borough 2016–17 National League South 4040—4[lower-alpha 4]0120
Longford Town 2017 LOI First Division 25230101[lower-alpha 3]0302
2018 27221211[lower-alpha 3]0324
Total 524513120546
Finn Harps 2019 LOI Premier Division 33210102[lower-alpha 5]0372
Shelbourne 2020 LOI Premier Division 9020—1[lower-alpha 6]0120
Drogheda United 2021 LOI Premier Division 36100——361
Hamilton Academical 2021–22 Scottish Championship 171———171
2022–23 33520408[lower-alpha 7]1476
Total 506204081647
Career total 206315110120125116
  1. Includes FA Cup, FAI Cup & Scottish Cup
  2. Includes EFL Cup, League of Ireland Cup & Scottish League Cup
  3. Appearances in Leinster Senior Cup
  4. Two appearances in FA Trophy, two appearances in Sussex Senior Challenge Cup
  5. Appearances in the 2019 League of Ireland Promotion/relegation play-off
  6. Appearances in the 2020 League of Ireland Promotion/relegation play-off
  7. 4 appearances, 1 goal in Scottish Challenge Cup & 4 appearances in Scottish Championship play-offs

Honours

Club
Hamilton Academical

Individual
Longford Town
Finn Harps
  • Supporter's Player of the Year: 1 (2019)
Drogheda United
  • Supporter's Player of the Year: 1 (2021)

References
  1. Daniel O'Reilly at Soccerway
  2. "Daniel O'Reilly - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport UK.
  3. "Daniel O'Reilly". www.facebook.com.
  4. FC, Fulham. "Fulham FC". Fulham FC.
  5. "Extratime.com - Extratime.ie - Daniel O'Reilly". www.extratime.com.
  6. Wilson, Jonathan; Premachandran, Dileep; Corbett, James; Clarke, Stuart Roy; Lyttleton, Ben; Murray, Scott (11 March 2015). "The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Sixteen". Blizzard Media Ltd – via Google Books.
  7. "Daniel O'Reilly – Longford Town FC • Official Website". ltfc.ie. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  8. "Extratime.ie - Daniel O'Reilly". www.extratime.ie.
  9. "Daniel O'Reilly".
  10. "Daniel O'Reilly Signs For Drogheda United". 19 December 2020.
  11. "Dan's the man for Accies". 1 January 2022.
  12. "Kazakhstan 1 - 1 Republic of Ireland | 2012 - Under 17 | 2004890 | Football Association of Ireland". www.fai.ie.
  13. "Republic of Ireland - D. O'Reilly - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
  14. Blake, Ben. "UCD and Shelbourne strongly represented in PFAI First Division Team of the Year". The42.
  15. "Daniel O'Reilly makes the PFAI First Division Team Of The Year – Longford Town FC • Official Website". ltfc.ie. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
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