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John O'Neill

Name: John Patrick O’Neill
Born: 11 March 1958, Londonderry
Height: 5.11¾ ft
Weight: 13.03 st
Position: Centre-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 39 Full Caps / 2 Goals (1980-1986), 1 Under-21 Cap (1978).
Club Honours: (with Leicester) Football League Division Two Champion 1979/80, Third (promoted) 1982/83.

Club Career:

Teams

Seasons

Signed

Fee

League

FA.Cup

FL.Cup

Europe

Other

Derry Athletic

-

Youth

-

-

-

-

-

Leicester C.

76/7-86/7

1976

N/C

313/10

19/1

13/1

-

-

Q.P.R.

87/8

Jul-87

£150k

2/ 0

-

-

-

-

Norwich

87/8

Dec-87

£-

1/ 0

-

-

-

-

TOTALS


£-

316/10

19/1

13/1

0/0

0/0


Biography:
To follow.

Football Heroes
Flown The Nest

Northern Ireland Cap Details:
26-03-80 Israel.... a 0-0 WCQ
17-05-80 Scotland.. h 1-0 BC
20-05-80 England... a 1-1 BC
23-05-80 Wales..... a 1-0 BC
11-06-80 Australia. a 2-1 FR 1 Goal
15-06-80 Australia. a 1-1 FR
18-06-80 Australia. a 2-1 FR
19-11-80 Portugal.. a 0-1 WCQ
25-03-81 Scotland.. a 1-1 WCQ
29-04-81 Portugal.. h 1-0 WCQ
19-05-81 Scotland.. a 0-2 BC
03-06-81 Sweden.... a 0-1 WCQ
14-10-81 Scotland.. h 0-0 WCQ
18-11-81 Israel.... h 1-0 WCQ
23-02-82 England... a 0-4 BC
24-03-82 France.... a 0-4 FR
28-04-82 Scotland.. h 1-1 BC
04-07-82 France.... n 1-4 WCF sub
13-10-82 Austria... a 0-2 ECQ
17-11-82 W. Germany h 1-0 ECQ
15-12-82 Albania... a 0-0 ECQ
30-03-83 Turkey.... h 2-1 ECQ
27-04-83 Albania... h 1-0 ECQ
24-05-83 Scotland.. a 0-0 HC
13-12-83 Scotland.. h 2-0 HC sub
16-10-84 Israel.... h 3-0 FR
14-11-84 Finland... h 2-1 WCQ 1 Goal
27-02-85 England... h 0-1 WCQ
27-03-85 Spain..... a 0-0 FR
01-05-85 Turkey.... h 2-0 WCQ
11-09-85 Turkey.... a 0-0 WCQ
16-10-85 Romania... a 1-0 WCQ
13-11-85 England... a 0-0 WCQ
26-02-86 France.... a 0-0 FR
26-03-86 Denmark... h 1-1 FR
23-04-86 Morocco... h 2-1 FR
03-06-86 Algeria... n 1-1 WCF
07-06-86 Spain..... n 1-2 WCF
12-06-86 Brazil.... n 0-3 WCF

Summary: 37(2)/2. Won 15, Drew 14, Lost 10.
Leicester - Brighton Match Programme 1980


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