Home Farm F.C. - Notable Former Players

Notable Former Players

  • Steve Archibald
  • Nicky Byrne
  • Liam Brady
  • Johnny Carey
  • Terry Conroy
  • Kenny Cunningham
  • Bill Cullen
  • Ken DeMange
  • Richard Dunne
  • Paddy Farrell
  • Gareth Farrelly
  • Theo Foley
  • Johnny Fullam
  • Owen Garvan
  • Shay Gibbons
  • Tommy Godwin
  • Ian Harte
  • Joe Haverty
  • Dave Henderson
  • Gary Howlett
  • Graham Kavanagh
  • Dermot Keely
  • Gary Kelly
  • Mark Kennedy
  • Stephen Kenny
  • Noel King
  • Mark Kinsella
  • Mick Martin
  • Alan Maybury
  • Chris McCann
  • Stephen McPhail
  • Brendan Menton Sr.
  • Brian Mooney
  • Paddy Mulligan
  • Martin Murray
  • Kevin O'Flanagan
  • Mick O'Flanagan
  • Diarmuid O'Carroll
  • Darren O'Dea
  • Frank O'Neill
  • Tony O'Reilly
  • John Thompson
  • Ray Treacy
  • Vincent Ryan
  • Liam Whelan
  • Ronnie Whelan
  • Ronnie Whelan Snr.

Many players who spent the early part of their careers at Home Farm went on to enjoy success at bigger clubs, mostly in England. Liam Whelan was sold to Manchester United in 1953 and scored more than 50 goals for them, winning two league titles, before his death in the Munich air disaster in 1958.Full-back Johnny Carey had also headed to Manchester United from Home Farm in 1936, and would go on to captain the club to FA Cup and league title glory in the immediate postwar years. Ronnie Whelan junior was sold to Liverpool in 1979 and helped them win a host of major trophies during the 1980s and early 1990s.Liam Brady joined Arsenal from Home Farm as a 15-year-old in 1971 and went on to become a key part of the Arsenal side over the next decade.Defender Gary Kelly left Home Farm for Leeds United at the beginning of the 1990s and played more than 500 games for them until retiring as a player in 2007.Kelly's nephew Ian Harte, just three years his junior, followed him to Leeds from Home Farm in 1995 and remained with them for the next nine years, and as of 2012 is still playing senior football for Reading in his mid thirties.

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