List of Derry City F.C. players

This article deals with past and present players of Derry City Football Club.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gerard Doherty 2 DF Niclas Vemmelund 3 DF Dean Jarvis 4 MF Aaron McEneff 5 DF Ryan McBride (captain) 6 MF Conor McCormack 7 MF Barry McNamee 8 MF Harry Monaghan 9 FW Jordan Allan 10 MF Keith Ward 11 FW Rory Patterson 12 MF Joshua Daniels 14 MF Gareth McGlynn 15 DF Shay Dunlop 16 FW Nathan Boyle

No. Position Player 20 GK Shaun Patton 22 DF Patrick McClean 23 DF Gareth McFadden 24 MF Dean Brown 25 MF Conor McDermott 26 FW Ryan Doherty 27 FW Ronan Curtis 28 FW Rory Holden 29 MF Lukas Schubert 30 DF Aaron Barry 31 GK Conor Brady 32 DF Ronan Wilson 38 FW Jack Blake - GK Mark McElhinney - DF Cristian Castells

Notable former players

Reserve and youth squads

Derry City currently has an academy team as well as an under-21 reserve team who play in the Under 21 League of Ireland. These teams have also competed in international youth tournaments, including the Foyle Cup and the Umbro Galway Cup. In 2006, the academy team was victorious in the Umbro Galway Cup. Although many youth players come from the local youth league, the Derry and District League, Derry have branched out their scouting network and have since promoted players from all around Ireland.

Derry's under-21 side finished 3rd in the 2006 Dr. Tony O'Neill League Northern Section and therefore qualified for the knock-out stages, contested between qualifiers from the four provincial sections. In the second round, the side met Shelbourne F.C.'s under-21 team and knocked them out, winning 3-1. However, the side was then beaten in the quarter-final by the under-21 team of Sligo Rovers F.C.

Dream teams

All-time XI chosen by Radio Foyle

In the early 1990s, local radio station, BBC Radio Foyle chose an all-time dream-team of eleven players. The team was as follows:

• Fred Stallard
• Eunan Blake
• Gerry Brenan
• Matt Doherty
• Barney Travers
• Doug Wood
• Jimmy Delaney
• Jobby Crossan
• Johnny McKenzie
• Fay Coyle
• Jimmy Kelly

Published in Derry City FC: City Till I Die

At the start of the 2007 season, a supporter publication, Derry City FC: City Till I Die, designated the task of revealing their dream teams to lifelong Derry City fans, Mick McBride and Davy Doherty. Both men decided to choose only players that they had witnessed first hand playing for Derry City, thus limiting the pool to only players to have appeared since the 1950s. Subsequently, the likes of goal-scoring legend, Jimmy Kelly, remained absent. Players were chosen from both Derry's Irish League and League of Ireland eras. While distinguishing players on the basis of ability and consistency, consideration was also given to the amount of time contributed toward the club by individual players. While recognised greats such as Alan Sunderland, Denis Tueart and Neil McNab all played with Derry City, they all played with the club during the twilight stages of their careers and did not manage to accumulate more than a handful of appearances each. Hence, players of such ilk were omitted.

Mick McBride's team

Davy Doherty's team

Record appearances in the League of Ireland

As of 16 July 2007:

Senior international players to have played for Derry City

References