Jake Kelly (footballer, born 1990)

Jake Kelly
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-06-18) 18 June 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland[1]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
St. Patrick's CYFC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2011 Bray Wanderers 104 (26)
2012–2013 St Patrick's Athletic 42 (8)
2014 Bray Wanderers 22 (5)
2015 Dundalk 8 (2)
2015–2016 Bohemians 32 (8)
2017 Longford Town 21 (2)
2018 Bray Wanderers 15 (1)
2019 Ballybrack FC
2020– St. Patrick's CYFC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jake Kelly, (born 18 June 1990) is a footballer who plays for St. Patrick's CYFC.[2]

Club career

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Kelly made his debut for Bray Wanderers on 18 August 2008 in an FAI Cup replay against Dundalk in which he scored in a 3–1 victory. He made a further 12 appearances during the season.

In 2009, Kelly cemented his place in the team and scored 26 goals in 90 league appearances over the next three seasons before he left to join St Patrick's Athletic for the 2012 season.

Kelly signed for St Patrick's Athletic in February 2012. He was shown a straight red card in his league debut against his old club Bray Wanderers following a clash with Dane Massey. Kelly provided a wonderful assist for Christy Fagan to make it 5–1 against rivals Shamrock Rovers at Richmond Park[3]

Following his release from St. Pats, Kelly had short spells at Bray and Dundalk.

Having previously worked with Bohemians manager Keith Long at Bray Wanderers, Kelly joined Bohemians midway through the 2015 season.[4] He left Bohs at the end of 2016 before joining Longford Town for the 2017 season.

On 5 January 2018, Bray Wanderers announced the signing of Kelly.[5] On August 17 Kelly scored his first goal of his 3rd spell with Bray in a 3–1 defeat to Dundalk.

Honours

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St Patrick's Athletic
Bohemians

References

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  1. ^ Profile at Extratime, extratime.ie
  2. ^ "Player Profiles". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  3. ^ "St Patrick's Athletic 5 -1 Shamrock Rovers - Extratime.ie - League of Ireland !". Extratime.ie. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  4. ^ "JAKE KELLY SIGNS | Bohemian FC". bohemianfc.com. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  5. ^ Bray Wanderers FC (5 January 2018). "Bray Wanderers FC on Twitter". Bray Wanderers FC on Twitter. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
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