Chris Forrester Wins SWAI/LOI Player of the Month for April 2014

St Patrick’s Athletic midfielder Chris Forrester certainly grabbed headlines in April, scoring goals like this against Drogheda United;

His performances for the month have earned him his 2nd SWAI player of the Month award coming exactly 2 years after his first award (April 2012). It is the 38th such award won by a St Patrick’s Athletic player

Season	Month	Player
1976/77	September	Sean Byrne
1978/79	February	Derek Carthy
1979/80	March	Jackie Jameson
1981/82	March	Paul McGrath
1987/88	January	Damian Byrne
1988/89	October	Mark Ennis
1989/90	September	Mark Ennis
1989/90	October	Mick Moody
1989/90	March	Damian Byrne
1989/90	April	Dave Henderson
1990/91	November	Curtis Fleming
1994/95	October	John McDonnell
1995/96	December	Eddie Gormley
1995/96	March	Ricky O’Flaherty
1995/96	April	Dave Campbell
1997/98	November	Colin Hawkins
1997/98	March	Keith Doyle
1997/98	April	Thomas Morgan
1998/99	October	Trevor Molloy
1998/99	January	Martin Ruseell
1999/2000	November	Trevor Molloy
2000/01	February	Liam Kelly
2001/02	September	C. Mbabazi Livingstone
2001/02	February	Ger McCarthy
2001/02	March	Darragh Maguire
2003	August	Chris Adamson
2007	March	Alan Kirby
2008	March	Keith Fahey
2008	August	Mark Quigley
2009	July	Declan O’Brien
2010	March	Conor Kenna
2010	July	Dave Mulcahy
2011	June	Danny North
2012	April	Chris Forrester
2012	July	Christy Fagan
2013	May	Killian Brennan
2013	September	Anto Flood
2014	April	Chris Forrester

It means that Pats have won at least one award in each of the last 8 seasons (dating back to March 2007).  Discounting this season, Sligo Rovers are on the next best “run” with at least one award from 2009 to 2013.

It leaves Pats clear in 2nd place for most awards won per club with Bohemians leading the way, even without having won an award in nearly 4 years.

LOI/SWAI POTM Breakdown by club up to April 2014

Forrester is the youngest of 11 players still playing to have multiple awards. Jason Byrne still leads the way with 6 awards

Multiple Winners – Sorted by Youth
2	Chris Forrester	21	St Patrick’s Athletic
2	Karl Sheppard	23	Galway United, Shamrock Rovers
3	Danny North	26	St Patrick’s Athletic, Sligo Rovers (2)
3	Mark Quigley	28	St Patrick’s Athletic, Dundalk, Sligo Rovers
2	Dave Mooney	29	Longford Town, Cork City
2	Killian Brennan	30	Bohemians, St Patrick’s Athletic
4	Gary Twigg	30	Shamrock Rovers (4)
2	Liam Kearney	31	Cork City (2)
2	Raffaele Cretaro	32	Sligo Rovers (2)
6	Jason Byrne	36	Bray Wanderers (3), Shelbourne (3)
2	Joseph Ndo	38	Shelbourne, Sligo Rovers

Drogheda United players who have won Player of the Month

Gary O’Neill was voted SWAI/LOI Player of the Month for march 2014.  It’s the  striker’s first such award and the 13th award won by a player from Drogheda/Drogheda United.

Here’s the full list of winners with Drogheda/Drogheda United.

Season	Month	Player
1975/76	April	Martin Donnelly
1976/77	November	Martin Donnelly
1977/78	September	Cathal Muckian
1978/79	December	Mick Leech
1982/83	February	Martin Murray
1988/89	February	Paddy Dunning
2006	March	Paul Keegan
2006	April	Jason Gavin
2007	April	Brian Shelley
2007	September	Guy Bates
2007	October	Brian Shelley
2008	July	Ollie Cahill
2013	March	Gary O’Neill

Here’s a breakdown of awards won by each League of Ireland club.

LOI/SWAI award winners by club up to March 2014

 

Only 7 current LOI players have won 2 or more awards. Jason Byrne leads all with 6.

Multiple Winners
6	Jason Byrne	Bray Wanderers (3), Shelbourne (3)
3	Mark Quigley	St Patrick’s Athletic, Dundalk, Sligo Rovers
3	Danny North	St Patrick’s Athletic, Sligo Rovers (2)
2	Raffael Cretaro	Sligo Rovers (2)
2	Joseph Ndo	Shelbourne, Sligo Rovers
2	Karl Sheppard	Galway United, Shamrock Rovers
2	Killian Brennan	Bohemians, St Patrick’s Athletic

2013 League of Ireland awards wrap up

The final award for the 2013 League of Ireland award was handed out on Sunday with St Patrick’s Athletic’s Killian Brennan picking up the Three sponsored FAI Award for League player of the year.

It completed a clean sweep of the big 3 awards (PFAI Player OTY, SWAI Personality OTY, FAI Player OTY) for St Patrick’s Athletic, the second time they have done so since the FAI award was introduced in 1993.

In the 22 year history of the FAI award, one club has won all 3 awards half the time with 5 of those trebles as a result of the same player cleaning up all 3.

Brennan joined Pat Fenlon (1999/2000), Jason Byrne (2003) and Gary Twigg (2009) as players who won both the PFAI and FAI, but were pipped for the SWAI award.  In Fenlon and Brennan’s case they were beaten by their club manager. Byrne and Twigg were also beaten to the SWAI by managers but opposition managers in their cases (2003  – Alan Mathews (Longford), 2009 – Liam Buckley (Sporting Fingal).

It’s the 4th year in a row, and the 15th time in 22 awards that the Champions have provided the FAI winner.

Liam Buckley became the 7th man to win the SWAI Personality of the Year award at least twice. Jim McLaughlin is the only man to win the award 3 times.

SWAI Personality of the Year Multiple Winners
3	Jim McLaughlin (Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers, Derry)
2	Johnny Fulham (Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians)
2	Pat Byrne (Shamrock Rovers, Shelbourne)
2	Glen Crowe (Bohemians)
2	Pat Fenlon (Shelbourne)
2	Paul Doolin (UCD, Drogheda United)
2	Liam Buckley (Sporting Fingal, St Patrick’s Athletic)

It meant that managers have won 10 of the last 11 awards, with Bohemian’s Owen Heary in 2008 the only player to break that monopoly.

In the period were all 3 main awards have been given, Shelbourne have won most with 14 with St Pat’s next with 11. A total of 11 clubs have won one of the 3 main awards

When the PFAI awards for Young Player and First Division Player of the Year, and the SWAI Goalkeeper of the Year are added a total of 24 clubs have won awards in since the first SWAI Personality of the Year award was handed out in 1960/61.

Shamrock Rovers, as you’d expect, lead the way with 24. Derry City and Cork City are the only clubs to win all available awards. Bohemians and St Pat’s have not been eligible for the 1st Division award.

As ever if you’ve any questions, fire away

PFAI Nominations

The 2013 PFAI Awards were handed on last weekend and St Patrick’s Athletic midfielder Killian Brennan won the Players’ Player of the Year award.  It was his first win, coming from his second nomination. He was previously nominated in 2008 with Bohemians.

Since 2000/01, only 13 players have been nominated more than once for the PFAI POTY.  They are

Multiple PFAI POTY Nominations since 2000/01
4	Glen Crowe	Bohemians
4	Kevin Hunt	Bohemians
4	Jason Byrne	Shelbourne 3, Bohemians 1
4	Owen Heary	Shelbourne 3, Bohemians 1
3	Brian Shelley	Drogheda 1, Bohemians 2
3	Joe Gamble	Cork City
3	Mark Quigley	St Pats, Dundalk, Sligo Rovers
2	Brian Murphy	Bohemians
2	George O’Callaghan	Cork City
2	Gary Twigg	Shamrock Rovers
2	Tony Grant	Shamrock Rovers
2	Keith Fahey	St Patrick’s Athletic
2	Killian Brennan	Bohemians,St Patrick’s Athletic

Of those 13,  8 have won the award on at least one occasion (Crowe, Byrne, Heary, Shelley, Quigley, Twigg, Fahey, Brennan).

There have been 80 nominations in that time period spread around 14 different clubs

Noms	Club	Players	Individuals
18	Bohemians	G Crowe 4, K Hunt 4,  B Murphy 2, B Shelley 2, Bobby Ryan, Colin Hawkins, Gary Deegan, J Byrne, K Brennan, O Heary	10
10	Shelbourne	O Heary 3, J Byrne 3, Jamie Harris, Joseph Ndo, Ollie Cahill, Stuart Byrne
9	St Patrick’s Athletic	K Fahey 2, Paul Osam, Liam Kelly, M Quigley, Daryl Kavanagh, Sean O’Connor, Killian Brennan, Greg Bolger	8
8	Derry City	Ciaran Martyn, Damien Kelly, Gary Beckett, Liam Coyle, Eamon Zayed, Mark Farren, Peter Hutton, Stuart Greacen	8
7	Cork City	J Gamble 3, G O’Callaghan 2, Kevin Doyle, John O’Flynn	4
7	Shamrock Rovers	G Twigg 2, T Grant 2, Alan Mannus, Pat Sullivan, Ronan Finn	5
6	Sligo Rovers	Raf Cretaro, Richie Ryan, Podge Amond, Eoin Doyle, M Quigley, Jason McGuinness
4	Drogheda United	Fabio O’Brien, Brian Shelley, Jason Gavin, Shane Robinson	4
4	Dundalk	Chris Turner, M Quigley, Pat Hoban, Richie Towell	4
2	Longford Town	Alan Kirby, Dave Mooney	2
2	UCD	Barry Ryan, Tony McDonnell	2
1	Bray Wanderers	Colm Tresson	1
1	Dublin City	Gary O’Neill	1
1	Sporting Fingal	Shaun Williams	1

Some of those nominated were also nominated before the 2000/01 season (eg Paul Osam who won the award in 1998/99) but records of nominations are hard to come by. If you have them for all years, please get in contact. (I have asked the PFAI but didn’t receive a reply).

5 of the nominees were also nominated for Young POTY in the same year as their senior nomination;

• 2008 Mark Quigley (lost both awards)
• 2009 Gary Deegan (lost both awards)
• 2010 Shaun Williams (won YPOTY)
• 2012 Richie Towell (won YPOTY), Pat Hoban (lost both awards)

Of the 80 nominations, Barry Ryan’s in 2002/03 is the oldest for an active player. He is one of only 3 goalkeepers nominated for the award in the time frame.

Position	Nominations	Players
Defender	17	12
Forward	32	21
Goalkeeper	4	3
Midfield	27	20

No player (in the time frame) has been nominated for POTY while in the First Division. 3 of the nominees had though, been previously nominated for the First Division POTY award (Stuart Byrne in 99/00, Alan Kirby in 00/01 and Ronan Finn in 2009 – Finn was the only winner).

Up until 2012, there were 6 nominees and there have been 4 nominees in the past 2 years. There has been at least one club with multiple nominations in each season (usually from the league winners). The most nominations was 4 for Bohemians in 2008. Unfortunately for them they lost out to 1 of the 2 nominees from St Patrick’s Athletic (Keith Fahey). This season again saw only 2 clubs represented, and again the winner was from St Pats.

Season	Clubs	Champs
2000/01	5	2
2001/02	5	1
2002/03	4	3
2003	4	1
2004	4	3
2005	4	2
2006	4	2
2007	5	2
2008	2	4
2009	4	3
2010	4	2
2011	4	1
2012	3	2
2013	2	2

As above, if you can help add depth to this article by adding info for previous season, do get in touch!  You can check out some more League of Ireland award trivia here.

Richie Towell of Dundalk wins the LOI POTM for August 2013

Dundalk midfielder Richie Towell won his first SWAI/Airtricity League Player of the Month award for his performances during August 2013.

The award is the second consecutive award for Dundalk and their 23rd overall since the award was introduced.

Here’s the full list of POTM winners from Dundalk;

Dundalk POTM winners
1975/76	March	Seamus McDonnell
1976/77	March	Mick Lawlor
1978/79	September	Dermot Keely
1978/79	March	Paddy Dunning
1978/79	April	Sean Byrne
1979/80	October	Dermot Keely
1979/80	February	Richie Blackmore
1980/81	October	Mick Fairclough
1981/82	September	Barry Kehoe
1981/82	April	Tom McConville
1982/83	October	Leo Flanagan
1985/86	December	Joey Malone
1986/87	November	Barry Kehoe
1987/88	March	Terry Eviston
1987/88	April	Dessie Gorman
1988/89	January	Larry Wyse
1990/91	October	Peter Hanrahan
1990/91	April	Tom McNulty
1997/98	October	Brian Byrne
2006	October	Philip Hughes
2011	March	Mark Quigley
2013	July	Patrick Hoban
2013	August	Richie Towell

Dundalk’s 23 awards leaves them with the joint 6th most winners.  Here’s how it stands for all clubs;

As ever, if you’ve any questions ask me on twitter…

Jason Byrne wins record 6th LOI Player of the Month award

Bray Wanderers striker Jason Byrne was voted the Airtricity League Player of the Month for June 2013 by the SWAI panel.  The award is Byrne’s sixth monthly award, and moves him clear at the top of the list of all time wins.

Byrne’s 6 awards have been spread over more than 14 years.  His six awards have been won for performances in

• September 1998 (Bray Wanderers)
• September 2003 (Shelbourne)
• April 2004 (Shelbourne)
• October 2005 (Shelbourne)
• May 2012 (Bray Wanderers)
• June 2013 (Bray Wanderers)

21 players have won at least 3 monthly POTM awards.  The full list;

As you can see above Jason Byrne has won 3 of his awards with Bray Wanderers.  Their has been a total of 8 awards handed out to Bray players.  They are;

• January 1987 – Eugene Davis
• September 1998 – Jason Byrne
• April 2000 – Colm Tresson
• April 2008 – Paddy Kavanagh
• September 2010 – Jake Kelly
• April 2011 – Gary Dempsey
• May 2012 – Jason Byrne
• June 2013 – Jason Byrne

For the record, all of Byrne’s awards have been won while playing in the Premier Division.

Killian Brennan wins SWAI Airtricity League POTM for May 2013

Killian Brennan has been voted the Airtricity League’s Player of the Month for May 2013 by the Soccer Writers Association of Ireland.  It is his second award (he last won in May 2008 with Bohemians) and the 36th such award for St Patrick’s Athletic players.

Here’s the full list of St Patrick’s Athletic Players winning LOI POTM;

1976/77	September	Sean Byrne
1978/79	February	Derek Carthy
1979/80	March	Jackie Jameson
1981/82	March	Paul McGrath
1987/88	January	Damian Byrne
1988/89	October	Mark Ennis
1989/90	September	Mark Ennis (2)
1989/90	October	Mick Moody
1989/90	March	Damian Byrne (2)
1989/90	April	Dave Henderson
1990/91	November	Curtis Fleming
1994/95	October	John McDonnell
1995/96	December	Eddie Gormley
1995/96	March	Ricky O’Flaherty
1995/96	April	Dave Campbell
1997/98	November	Colin Hawkins
1997/98	March	Keith Doyle
1997/98	April	Thomas Morgan
1998/99	October	Trevor Molloy
1998/99	January	Martin Ruseell
1999/2000	November	Trevor Molloy (2)
2000/01	February	Liam Kelly
2001/02	September	C. Mbabazi Livingstone
2001/02	February	Ger McCarthy
2001/02	March	Darragh Maguire
2003	August	Chris Adamson
2007	March	Alan Kirby
2008	March	Keith Fahey
2008	August	Mark Quigley
2009	July	Declan O’Brien
2010	March	Conor Kenna
2010	July	Dave Mulcahy
2011	June	Danny North
2012	April	Chris Forrester
2012	July	Christy Fagan
2013	May	Killian Brennan

A St Pats player has won at least one monthly award for the past 7 seasons, the nearest ‘run’ is Sligo with the past 5 seasons.  It leaves Pats in second place on the all time list, behind Bohemians.

Here’s the awards per clubs;

As ever if you have any questions, ask away on twitter

Derry City and the SWAI Player of The Month Award

Derry City’s midfielder Barry McNamee was named the League of Ireland’s Player of the Month for April 2013 by the SWAI.  It is the 23rd time a Derry City player has won the award.

Full List of SWAI POTM awards won by Derry City players

Season	Month	Player
1986/87	February	Alex Kristic
1988/89	March	Liam Coyle
1988/89	November	Paul Doolin
1989/90	November	Felix Healy
1989/90	December	Paul Doolin
1991/92	October	Dermot O’Neill
1993/94	April	Dermot O’Neill
1993/94	December	Peter Hutton
1994/95	April	Liam Coyle
1994/95	February	Paul Curran
1994/95	August	Paul Doolin
1996/97	December	Gary Beckett
1996/97	March	Paul Curren
1996/97	April	Peter Hutton
2001/02	October	Darren Kelly
2002/03	October	Eamonn Doherty
2005	July	Mark Farren
2005	September	Peter Hutton
2006	September	Darren Kelly
2006	August	Kevin Deery
2006	May	Pat McCourt
2012	November	Rory Patterson
2013	April	Barry McNamee

Both Paul Doolin and Peter Hutton won 3 monthly awards while playing with the Candystripes.  McNamee’s award gives Derry 2 of the last 3 awards with FAI cup winning goal scorer Rory Patterson having won the November 2012 award.

Here’s the running totals for each of the clubs who have won an award.

If you’ve any POTM questions, ask away on twitter

More LOI awards. This time the FAI “International” awards

I’ve already posted about the PFAI Player of the Year and the SWAI Personality of the Year. So of course I had to post about the 3rd national award handed out to League of Ireland players, the “National League Player of the Year” award handed out during the FAI International awards.

The youngest of the 3 awards the first FAI award was handed out following the 1992/93 season. The awards ‘celebration night’ date has changed a few times so the years below relate to the footballing season that was honoured, not the year that the award was handed out.  The last two winners moved clubs between the season’s end and the awards being handed out. I’m ‘crediting’ the team that he played with when he ‘earned’ the award.

Full list of winners:

1992/93	Pat Morley	Cork City
1993/94	Stephen Geoghegan	Shamrock Rovers
1994/95	Liam Coyle	Derry City
1995/96	Tony Sheridan	Shelbourne
1996/97	Peter Hutton	Derry City
1997/98	Colin Hawkins	St Patrick’s Athletic
1998/99	Paul Osam	St Patrick’s Athletic
1999/2000	Pat Fenlon	Shelbourne
2000/01	Glen Crowe	Bohemians
2001/02	Glen Crowe	Bohemians
2002/03	Kevin Hunt	Bohemians
2003	Jason Byrne	Shelbourne
2004	Owen Heary	Shelbourne
2005	George O’Callaghan	Cork City
2006	Ollie Cahill	Shelbourne
2007	Dave Mooney	Longford Town
2008	Brian Murphy	Bohemians
2009	Gary Twigg	Shamrock Rovers
2010	Gary Twigg	Shamrock Rovers
2011	Pat Sullivan	Shamrock Rovers
2012	Jason McGuinness	Sligo Rovers

So Jason McGuinness’s win was the first win by a Sligo Rovers player.  It completed a club treble of the main 3 LOI awards with Mark Quigley winning the PFAI award and manager Ian BaraClough winning the SWAI Personality of the Year.  In fact only St Patrick’s Athletic’s Chris Forrester winning PFAI Young Player of the Year stopped Sligo winning all 5 LOI awards as Gary Rogers won the SWAI Goalkeeper of the Year award too. No club has won all 5

Only twice before has a club won all 3 awards with seperate individuals;

• 2004 – Shelbourne – PFAI; Jason Byrne, SWAI; Pat Fenlon, FAI; Owen Heary
• 2006 – Shelbourne – PFAI; Joseph Ndo, SWAI; Pat Fenlon, FAI; Ollie Cahill

Only 8 clubs have won the FAI award in its 21 years;

• 5 – Shelbourne
• 4 – Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers
• 2 – Cork City, Derry City, St Patrick’s Athletic
• 1 – Longford Town, Sligo Rovers

Trivia

1. Bohs Brian Murphy in 2008 is the only goalkeeper to win any of the 3 main LOI awards.
2. Dave Mooney is the only player to win one of the main awards in a team that was relegated.
3. Gary Twigg and Glen Crowe are the only players to win this award twice
4. Crowe is the all time leader of league awards won with 6.

Only 3 players have won more than 3 awards;

• 6 – Glen Crowe (2000/01 – all 3, 2001/02 – FAI, 2002/03 – PFAI, SWAI)
• 5 – Pat Fenlon (1991/92 – PFAI, 1999/2000 – PFAI, FAI, 2004 – SWAI, 2006 – SWAI)
• 4 – Paul Doolin(1985/86 – PFAI, 1988/89 – PFAI, 2001/02 – SWAI, 2007 – SWAI)

• All Crowe’s awards as a player, and all with Bohs.
• Fenlon’s last 2 awards were as manager. All but his first award (with Bohs) were won with Shels
• Doolin’s 4 awards were won with different clubs; Rovers, Derry, UCD & Drogheda. The last 2 as manager

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As ever, feel free to ask any questions.  Twitter is your best bet

SWAI awards miscellany

The Soccer Writers Association of Ireland was the first body to start handing out awards for Irish football in 1961, 20 years before the PFAI and 32 years before the FAI.  Unlike, those awards, the SWAI Personality of the Year isn’t limited to players, and recently it’s become harder and harder for players to win. When Sligo Rovers manager Ian Baraclough won over the weekend he became the 9^th manager to win the award in the last 10 years.

However, players still lead the overall breakdown of winners;

SWAI POTY Awards won by;

• Players                                 29
• Managers                            18
• Player/Managers             5
• Admin Staff                        1

*The 5 player/managers are not included in the individual numbers for players & managers

Baraclough became only the 3^rd non-Irishman (north or south) to win the award following Paul Cook (Sligo Rovers) in 2010 and Dave Bacuzzi (Cork Hibs) in 1972. All 3 are English. English born Peter Thomas also won the award but he represented Republic of Ireland in goal.

It’s also only the second award for Sligo Rovers after Cook’s win 2 years ago.

Breakdown by club* wins;

• 11           Shamrock Rovers
• 7              Bohemians
• 4              St Patrick’s Athletic, Dundalk, Shelbourne
• 3              Derry City
• 2              Athlone, Cork City, Drogheda, Limerick, Waterford, Sligo Rovers,
• 1              Cork Celtic, Cork Hibs, Drumcondra. Finn Harps, Longford Town, Sporting Fingal, UCD, FAI*

You might have noticed that Admin staff and the FAI have a win.  That’s because in 1964 the Soccer Writers voted for FAI secretary Joe Wickham. He was the first non player to win, and he’s the only non LOI club personnel to win the award.

Liam Buckley’s win in 2009 is the only time a player or manager has won the award following a season in the First Division (Sporting Fingal won the FAI Cup that year).

You can see a list of players who’ve won this award and the PFAI award in the same season here https://statsthatarepointless.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/pfai-player-of-the-year/

Here’s the full list of winners;

1961	Dan McCaffrey	Drumcondra	player
1962	Tommy Hamilton	Shamrock Rovers	player
1963	Willie Browne	Bohemians	player
1964	Joe Wickham	FAI	secretary
1965	Sean Thomas	Bohemians	manager
1966	Liam Tuohy	Shamrock Rovers	player/manager
1967	Al Finucane	Limerick	player
1968	Johnny Fullam	Shamrock Rovers	player
1969	Mick Leech	Shamrock Rovers	player
1970	Peter Thomas	Waterford	player
1971	Mick Meagan	Drogheda	player
1972	Dave Bacuzzi	Cork Hibernians	player/manager
1973	Alfie Hale	Waterford	player
1974	Paul O’Donovan	Cork Celtic	player
1975	Johnny Fullam	Bohemians	player
1976	Brendan Bradley	Finn Harps	player
1977	Mick Smyth	Bohemians	player
1978	Johnny Giles	Shamrock Rovers	player/manager
1979	Jim McLaughlin	Dundalk	manager
1980	Eoin Hand	Limerick Utd	player/manager
1981	Turlough O’Connor	Athlone Town	player/manager
1982	Tommy McConville	Dundalk	player
1983	Noel Larkin	Athlone Town	player
1984	Jim McLaughlin	Shamrock Rovers	manager
1985	Pat Byrne	Shamrock Rovers	player
1986	Liam O’Brien	Shamrock Rovers	player
1987	Mick Byrne	Shamrock Rovers	player
1988	Terry Eviston	Dundalk	player
1989	Jim McLaughlin	Derry City	manager
1990	Damien Byrne	St Patrick’s Athletic	player
1991	Peter Hanrahan	Dundalk	player
1992	Pat Byrne	Shelbourne	manager
1993	Pat Morley	Cork City	player
1994	Stephen Geoghegan	Shamrock Rovers	player
1995	Liam Coyle	Derry City	player
1996	Brian Kerr	St Patrick’s Athletic	manager
1997	Peter Hutton	Derry City	player
1998	Pat Dolan	St Patrick’s Athletic	manager
1999	Paul Osam	St Patrick’s Athletic	player
2000	Dermot Keely	Shelbourne	manager
2001	Glen Crowe	Bohemians	player
2002	Paul Doolin	UCD	manager
2002/03	Glen Crowe	Bohemians	player
2003	Alan Matthews	Longford Town	manager
2004	Pat Fenlon	Shelbourne	manager
2005	Damien Richardson	Cork City	manager
2006	Pat Fenlon	Shelbourne	manager
2007	Paul Doolin	Drogheda Utd	manager
2008	Owen Heary	Bohemians	player
2009	Liam Buckley	Sporting Fingal	manager
2010	Paul Cook	Sligo Rovers	manager
2011	Michael O’Neill	Shamrock Rovers	manager
2012	Ian Baraclough	Sligo Rovers	manager

 

Following the 2002/03 season (the last winter season), the SWAI introduced a Goalkeeper of the Year Award. Sligo’s Gary Rogers became the 8^th winner of the award

2002-03	Barry Ryan	UCD
2003	Steve Williams	Shelbourne
2004	Steve Williams	Shelbourne
2005	Michael Devine	Cork City
2006	David Forde	Derry City
2007	Brian Murphy	Bohemians
2008	Brian Murphy	Bohemians
2009	Brian Murphy	Bohemians
2010	Alan Mannus	Shamrock Rovers
2011	Ger Doherty	Derry City
2012	Gary Rogers	Sligo Rovers

 

Interestingly (or not), the SWAI award has exactly mirrored who the PFAI voted onto their Team of Year for goalkeeper. No goalkeeper from Dublin has won the award and there have only been 3 Dublin keepers nominated in the last ten years (Barry Murphy 2005, Darren Quigley 2009, Brendan Clarke 2011)

As ever, any questions ask away and if any SWAI want to share their own info (eg list of old nominees), please get in touch