The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Ireland
84 notable people
Trending Soccer Players from Ireland This Week
The top 10 Soccer Players from Ireland trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Robbie Keane
b. 1980
Trending in Hungarian (#49) Wikipedia (205 views, on Jul 9).
- #2
Roy Keane
b. 1971
Trending in Spanish (#73), Portuguese (#114), English (#128), Dutch (#130), Italian (#173), Japanese (#182), French (#278), and German...
- #3
Pico Lopes
b. 1992
Trending in Portuguese (#246) Wikipedia (409 views, on Jul 8).
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 83 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 56th most number of Soccer Players behind Ecuador and Finland.
Top 10 Irish Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Irish Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Irish Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Irish Soccer Players.
- #1
Roy Keane
b. 1971
HPI 61.2153 langsIrish footballer
- #2
Arthur Johnson
1879 - 1920
HPI 60.6018 langsIrish footballer (1879–1929)
- #3
Patrick O'Connell
1887 - 1959
HPI 60.2117 langsIrish association footballer (1887-1959)
- #4
Robbie Keane
b. 1980
HPI 59.1359 langsIrish footballer
- #5
Willoughby Hamilton
1864 - 1943
HPI 56.0120 langsIrish tennis and badminton player
- #6
Brian Kerr
b. 1953
HPI 54.6317 langsIrish footballer and manager
- #7
Kevin Doyle
b. 1983
HPI 54.4735 langsIrish former professional footballer
- #8
Liam Brady
b. 1956
HPI 53.9428 langsIrish footballer and manager
- #9
Caoimhín Kelleher
b. 1998
HPI 53.8032 langsIrish footballer (born 1998)
- #10
John O'Shea
b. 1981
HPI 53.6955 langsIrish footballer and coach
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Irish Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(15)
1980s(33)
1970s(11)
1930s(1)
1920s(1)
1910s(1)
1880s(1)
1870s(1)
1860s(1)
1850s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.
