Stephen Kelly

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Stephen Kelly
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Michael Kelly
Date of birth	September 6, 1983 (1983-09-06) (age 25)
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Full back
Club information
Current club	Birmingham City
Number	2
Youth clubs
	Belvedere FC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000–2006 2003 2003 2003 2006–	Tottenham Hotspur → Southend United (loan) → Queens Park Rangers (loan) → Watford (loan) Birmingham City	37 (2) 10 (0) 07 (0) 13 (0) 78 (0)
National team2
2003–2005 2006–	Republic of Ireland U21 Republic of Ireland	17 (0) 12 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 19:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Stephen Michael Kelly (Irish name: Stiofán Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh) (born September 6, 1983 in Finglas, Dublin) is an Irish professional footballer who plays at full back (usually right full back) for Birmingham City. He is a full international for the Republic of Ireland.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Tottenham Hotspur 1.2 Birmingham City 2 International career 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Club career

[edit] Tottenham Hotspur

Kelly joined Tottenham Hotspur through their youth programme. He was something of an understudy to Stephen Carr (who was subsequently transferred to Newcastle United) and then to Paul Stalteri. He made his Spurs first team debut in 2003 and then went on to make nearly fifty Premiership appearances and scoring two league goals.

[edit] Birmingham City

Birmingham City were believed to be winning the race to sign the defender in January 2006 only for Tottenham to pull the plug on the deal because they had an injury crisis in defence. Kelly did join Birmingham, however, on 28 June 2006 for an initial fee of £750,000 although it could rise to £1.25 million depending on his success with Birmingham City.^[1]

Stephen Kelly was the only outfield player in the 2007–08 Premier League season to have played every minute of every game for his club.^[2]

[edit] International career

Kelly has won Irish caps at junior levels and is now a member in the Irish full team squad making his debut versus Chile. He represented Republic of Ireland Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Stephen Kelly career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Birmingham City F.C. – current squad 1 Maik Taylor • 2 Kelly • 3 Murphy • 4 Hunt • 5 Martin Taylor • 6 Ridgewell • 7 Larsson • 8 O'Connor • 9 Phillips • 10 Jerome • 11 McSheffrey • 12 Nafti • 13 Doyle • 14 Agustien • 15 Jaïdi • 16 McFadden • 17 Mutch • 18 Quashie • 19 Quincy • 20 Queudrue • 21 Parnaby • 22 Johnson • 23 Bent • 24 Aydilek • 25 Wilson • 26 Carsley • Manager: McLeish