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Liam Buckley Biography
Irish soccer manager and former player who has coached St. Patrick’s Athletic to League of Ireland, FAI Cup and Leinster Senior Cup titles, among others. As a player, he was voted Shamrock Rovers Player of the Year two straight years in 1981 and 1982.
He was born in Dublin and began his career with Shelbourne in the League of Ireland in 1978.
He was named the Soccer Writers Association of Ireland Personality of the Year for 2009 and 2013.
He married a woman named Orlaith.
He and Pat Fenlon have both been managers for the Shamrock Rovers.
Liam Buckley (born 14 April 1960 in Dublin), is an Irish former professional football. He is Sligo Rovers manager as of October 26, 2018. He made two appearances for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
Buckley began his League of Ireland career with Shelbourne and signed for Shamrock Rovers as a full-time player in the 1979 close season. He scored his first goal for the Hoops against his former club at Milltown on 21 October 1979 and he went on to score another seven league goals that season.
On 30 April 1980 he represented the League of Ireland against Argentina at the River Plate Stadium where Diego Maradona scored in a 1–0 defeat.
Following a spell with Vancouver Whitecaps in the 1981/82 season he finished as Rovers’ top scorer with 21 goals and had a trial at Hannover 96. While the following season was a disappointment he still ended up as top goalscorer at Milltown and guested for St Patrick’s Athletic in a friendly with Manchester United.
Buckley played for the Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team in 1981.
Famous wins over Odra Wodzisław saw Rovers become the first Irish side to win home and away since he himself had played and scored against Fram Reykjavik in 1982.
The 1983–84 season ended in triumph as Rovers won their first League title in twenty years. Buckley had scored 13 League goals before he broke his collar-bone against Waterford at Milltown on 26 February. However, he returned to action less than six weeks later to score the winner in the FAI Cup semi final replay against Shelbourne.
In April 1983 he played for the League of Ireland XI U21s against their Italian League counterparts who included Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli in their team.
He was transferred to Racing de Santander on loan for the 1986–87 season and made his debut at the Camp Nou on 30 August. It’s a game he fondly remembers: “Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes were making their debut for FC Barcelona and there I was making my debut for Santander. There was a crowd of around ninety thousand and the atmosphere was tremendous and although they beat us 2–0 I think that occasion is the highlight of my career”. He later moved to FC Montreux-Sports (November 1987–89) where he spent two seasons.
He came home and signed for Rovers again in 1989 but injuries prevented him from establishing a regular first team place. In his final season in the Hoops in 1991–92 he scored once in eleven appearances.
He then transferred to St. Patrick’s Athletic where he went on to win the League in 1996 as an assistant coach. After a decade at Richmond Park, manager Brian Kerr left in December 1996 to take up the position of technical director at the Football Association of Ireland. Buckley wasn’t offered the managers job at Pats and he left the club in February 1997 to move to Sligo for the rest of that season and later went on to become player-manager at Athlone Town.
After guiding St. Pat’s to the League in 1998 Pat Dolan stepped down after one game of the 1998/99 season and appointed Buckley as manager. Pats retained their league title but two bad defeats in Europe followed by indifferent domestic form saw Buckley sacked in December 1999.
Buckley guided Athlone to the FAI Cup semi final in 1998 in his first season as player-manager.
He then had another spell as Athlone’s manager before being appointed Shamrock Rovers manager in April 2002.
However Rovers form dropped alarmingly after the UEFA Intertoto Cup games and a seventh-place finish had the fans worried. In the 2004 season with practically a new team Rovers again struggled and Buckley was sacked in September 2004.
In 2008 Buckley took on the role of manager of Sporting Fingal a brand new team that were awarded a licence to play in the League of Ireland First Division. They finished a creditable 3rd in their first season in senior football. In their second season in 2009, Buckley guided Fingal to promotion through the play-offs, and capped off a superb campaign by also winning the FAI Cup.
In January 2010 he was awarded the SWAI Personality of the Year.
Buckley was appointed St.Patrick’s Athletic manager for the 2012 season on 2 December 2011. In his first season back at the club, with his side playing some of the best football the club had seen since his own playing days at the club, he guided the Saints to 3rd place in the League of Ireland (only six points off 1st place), Runners-Up in the FAI Cup and through two rounds in the UEFA Europa League to make it to the Third Qualifying Round (knocked out by German giants Hannover 96).
He took over as manager of Sligo Rovers in October 2018.
In September 2018 Liam Buckley resigned from St.Patrick’s Athletic after a 3-1 loss to Bohemians.
What's Liam Buckley Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Liam Buckley Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
