Northern Ireland players @ NASL Jerseys

Ronnie Blair (23) in action
for Colorado Caribous

The excellent NASL Jerseys website is a wonderful resource for anyone with an interest in the NASL, but also for the other professional "soccer" leagues that dotted the USA and Canada from the late-1960s through to the beginning of the MLS in 1996. If your fancy is so tickled, you can also drop in on the history of the rival leagues founded across the more traditional US sports through the 1970s and 1980s.

Not only does the site include a comprehensive look at the ground-breaking "uniforms" worn during the halcyon days of US soccer, it is also lavishly illustrated with player images and statistics from throughout their careers.

As touched on elsewhere on NIFG, many players from Northern Ireland, or who played our own local leagues (the whole Detroit Cougars squad from the 1967 season is included) have plied their trade across the pond. Below is a list of these players as featured on NASL Jerseys with links to their bios if featured on NIFG.

Player	League(s)	Caps	Born/Citizen	Other Links
Armstrong, Tom	NASL	IL	NIR	Wiki
Averell, Bobby	NASL	Am	NIR	Ballymena
Bell, Tony	ASL	-	NIR	-
Best, George	NASL/ASL	37	NIR	ManUtd
Blair, Ronnie	NASL	5	NIR	Wiki
Borne, Roy	USA	-	NIR	-
Bradley, Brendan	NASL	-	NIR	Wiki
Brown, Barry	NASL	-	NIR	-
Bruce, Walter	USA/NASL	2	NIR	Glentoran
Campbell, Bobby	NASL	2	NIR	Bradford
Carlyle, Hilary	NASL	-	NIR	Dundalk
Caskey, Billy	NASL/MISL	7	NIR	Wiki
Cavanagh, Tony	NASL	-	NIR	Dundalk
Clements, Dave	NASL	48	NIR (USA)	Wolves
Colrain, John	USA	-	SCO	Celtic
Conroy, Terry	NASL	-	IRL	Wiki
Creighton, Harry	USA	IL	NIR	-
Davey, Conleth	NASL	Am	NIR	Dundalk
Donnelly, Martin	NASL/MISL	Am	NIR	Wiki
Dougan, Derek	USA	43	NIR	Wolves
Ervine, Glenn	AISA	-	NIR	-
Finlay, Albert	USA	Am	NIR	Wiki (Ita)
Gibson, Jim	NASL	-	NIR	-
Hagan, Jim	NASL	rep	NIR	Larne
Hall, Gerry	ASL	-	NIR	-
Harkin, Terry	NASL	5	NIR	Crewe
Harvey, Martin	USA	34	NIR	Sunderland
Houston, David	NASL	-	NIR/CAN	-
Irwin, Bill	NASL/MISL	Am	NIR	Wiki
Jackson, Tommy	USA	35	NIR	Glens 1 2
Johnston, Johnny	USA	u23	NIR	Wiki
Kelly, Jimmy	NASL	-	NIR	-
Kennedy, John	USA	Am	NIR	Celtic
Kydd, Sammy	USA	-	NIR	-
Lemon, Jim	NASL/MISL/ASL	-	NIR	-
Lemon, Noel	NPSL/ASL	-	NIR	-
Lunn, Sammy	USA	IL	NIR	-
McCoy, Martin	MISL	-	NIR	-
McCreery, David	NASL	67	NIR	Hearts
McCullough, Billy	USA	Am	NIR	Glentoran
McCurdy, Colin	NASL	1	NIR	Linfield
McDonald, Alan	independent	52	NIR	QPR
McGeough, Jimmy (1)	ASL	-	NIR	Wiki
McGeough, Jimmy (2)	ASL/MISL	-	NIR	Wiki
McGrath, Chris	NASL	21	NIR	ManUtd
McKeag, Billy	USA	2	NIR	Wiki
McNeill, Alan	USA	u23	NIR	Wiki
McParland, Peter	NPSL/NASL	34	NIR	Dundalk
Millen, Billy	ASL	c/u	NIR	Linfield
Moore, Terry	NASL	IL	CAN	Glentoran
Moreland, Victor	NASL/MISL/ASL	6	NIR	DT92
Morrow, Tom	USA	u23	NIR	Wiki (It)
Mulholland, Wesley	ASL	-	NIR	StatsCrew
Napier, John	NASL	1	NIR	SoccerSchool
Nicholl, Jimmy	NASL	73	CAN/NIR	Dunfermline
Nicholl, Terry	MISL	-	ENG	Wiki
O'Kane, Gerry	NASL/ASL/MISL	-	NIR	UPI
O'Neill, Michael	USL	31	NIR	Timbers
Parke, John	USA	14	NIR	StatCat
Paterson, Alan	ASL	Am	NIR	Glentoran
Quinn, Brian	NASL/MISL	rep	NIR/USA	Wiki
Rainey, Jerry	NASL	-	NIR	-
Ross, Eric	USA	1	NIR	Newcastle
Sinclair, Billy	USA	-	SCO	BBC
Stewart, Arthur	USA/ASL	7	NIR	Ballymena
Thompson, Jim	ASL	-	NIR	StatsCrew
Thompson, Trevor	USA	IL	NIR	Wiki
Todd, Sammy	NASL	11	NIR	Burnley
Trainor, Danny	USA	1	NIR	Wiki
Weatherup, Jim	USA	Am	NIR	Glentoran
Wood, Doug	USA	IL	SCO	Wiki
Wright, Maurice	USA	-	NIR	-

 

KEY:

• Leagues: USA - United Soccer Association (1967); NPSL - National Professional Soccer League (1967); NASL - North American Soccer League (1968-1984); MISL - Major Indoor Soccer League (1978-1992); ASL - American Soccer League (1933-1983 and 1988-1989); AISA - American Indoor Soccer Association (1984-1990); USL - United Soccer League(s) (1986-date)
• Caps (highest level listed): number - full NI caps; u23 - Under-23 NI caps; Am - Amateur NI caps; rep - other IFA/NI representatitive; c/u - full NI squad call-up; IL - Irish League representative