Irish players to appear in European Finals

[Real ale Madrid]

Always wondered - so looked it up over Christmas:

Any missing? please add!

Irish Players to appear in European Finals							
							
European Cup Winners Cup							
							
Year	Players	        Team	        Opponent	 Venue        Result		
1971	John Dempsey	Chelsea v	Real Madrid	Athens	2-1	Replay after 1-1 Draw	
	Paddy Mulligan						
							
1980	David O'Leary	Arsenal v	Valencia	Brussels 0-0 	Lost 6-5 on pens	
	Liam Brady						
	Frank Stapelton						
							
1984	Mickey Walsh	FC Porto v 	Juventus	Basel	               1-2		
							
1985	Kevin Sheedy	Everton v 	Rapid Vienna	Rotterdam	3-1		
							
1991	Denis Iwirn	Manchester United v 	Barcelona	Rotterdam	2-1		
							
1994	Eddie McGoldrick	Arsenal v  	Parma	Copenhagen	1-0		
							
UEFA Cup / Europa League							
1972	Joe Kinnear	Tottenham v 	Wolves		       2-3	on agg	
							
1973	Steve Highway	Liverpool v 	Br. Moenchengladbach	3-2	on agg	
							
1976	Steve Highway	Liverpool v 	Club Brugge		4-3	on agg	
							
1984	Chris Hughton	Tottenham Hotspur v 	Anderlecht		2-2	on agg 4-3 on pens	
	Tony Galvin						
							
2010	Damien Duff	Fulham v 	Athletico Madrid	Hamburg 	1-2		
							
European Cup / Champions League							
1968	Shay Brennan	Manchester United v 	Benfica	London 4-1		
	Tony Dunne						
							
1975	Johnny Giles	Leeds United v 	Bayern Munich	Paris	0-2		
							
1977	Steve Heighway	Liverpool v 	Br. Moenchengladbach	Rome  3-1		
							
1978	Steve Heighway	Liverpool  v	Club Brugge	London	1-0		
							
1984	Mark Lawrensen	Liverpool v 	AS Roma	Rome	 1-1	won 4-3 on pens	
	Ronnie Whelan						
	Michael Robinson						
							
1985	Jim Beglin	Liverpool v 	Juventus	Brussels	         0-1		
	Mark Lawrensen						
	Ronnie Whelan						
							
1999	Denis Iwirn	Manchester United v 	Bayern Munich	Barcelona	2-1		
							
2005	Steve Finnan	Liverpool v 	AC Milan	Istanbul	 3-3	won 3-1 on pens	
							
2007	Steve Finnan	Liverpool v 	AC Milan	Athens	 1-2		
							
2009	John O'Shea	Manchester United v 	Barcelona	Rome  0-2

[Real ale Madrid]

For the record : John Dempsey Chelsea v Madrid 71' CWC final replay and Kevin Sheedy Everton v Vienna 85' CWC Final are the 2 Irish players to score in Major European Finals.

[The Donie Forde]

Noel Cantwell, then of West Ham United, played in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

01.05.1958 Barcelona 6-0 London XI (first leg was 2-2 at Stamford Bridge).

Best I can tell, Cantwell was the first Irish-born player to feature in a European club final.

[The Donie Forde]

Noel Cantwell, then of West Ham United, played in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

01.05.1958 Barcelona 6-0 London XI (first leg was 2-2 at Stamford Bridge).

Best I can tell, Cantwell was the first Irish-born player to feature in a European club final.
Think Giles played in the 67-68 and 70-71 Fairs Cup finals also?

[Real ale Madrid]

Noel Cantwell, then of West Ham United, played in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

01.05.1958 Barcelona 6-0 London XI (first leg was 2-2 at Stamford Bridge).

Best I can tell, Cantwell was the first Irish-born player to feature in a European club final.
Think Giles played in the 67-68 and 70-71 Fairs Cup finals also?

Thanks Donie. I only checked the UEFA cup post 71-72 when it was taken over by UEFA. Giles played in the 66-67 Fairs cup final also. He had some career.

[OwlsFan]

Mickey Walsh is interesting as the only Irish player to play in a final not representing an English side.

[seand]

I assume you're not counting the Intertoto, the Super Cup or Northern Ireland as part of Ireland! ;-)

Giles also played in the bizarre Fairs Cup winner-gets-to-keep-the-trophy playoff v Barcelona in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-...rophy_Play-Off

I see we had an Irish player in each of the three finals in 1984, and four players in the three finals in 1984 and 1985.

[Real ale Madrid]

I assume you're not counting the Intertoto, the Super Cup or Northern Ireland as part of Ireland! ;-)

No, No and No! On No.3 - I just meant Republic of Ireland capped players I guess.

Giles also played in the bizarre Fairs Cup winner-gets-to-keep-the-trophy playoff v Barcelona in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-...rophy_Play-Off

Great bit of trivia that is.

Another good one I stumbled across when researching this : The first Republic of Ireland player to play in a group stage of a major European Competition?

I see we had an Irish player in each of the three finals in 1984, and four players in the three finals in 1984 and 1985.

The Glory days indeed.

[seand]

Great bit of trivia that is.

Another good one I stumbled across when researching this : The first Republic of Ireland player to play in a group stage of a major European Competition?

Charlie Hurley for London, Fairs Cup 56-8

[DannyInvincible]

He doesn't quite make the list, but an interesting name and story all the same; Glasgow-born Charlie Gallagher, who was our first Scotland-born international, was part of Celtic's 1966-67 squad that lifted the European Cup, although he didn't actually play in the game itself. Teams were limited to just a substitute goalkeeper then.

[Real ale Madrid]

Charlie Hurley for London, Fairs Cup 56-8

Correct!

[OwlsFan]

Off topic, but it a European Final (albeit an English FA Cup Final), I wonder is Mick McGrath the only Irish man ever to score an OG in an FA Cup Final https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_FA_Cup_Final