Jimmy McGeough

Who is Jimmy McGeough?

Jimmy McGeough is a former Northern Irish football player and manager.

His clubs included Derry City, Lincoln and Waterford United.

Joining Derry in July 1963 he was part of the only Derry City side ever to win the Irish League and was an Irish Cup winner too with the Candystripes. He scored in the European Cup. McGeough played his last game for Derry at Coleraine on 9 October 1965 bringing an end to a remarkable sequence of never having missed a single match for Derry since his arrival in July 1963.

Derry withdrew from the Irish League in 1973 due to civil unrest.

He signed for Waterford from Derry in December 1965 for £3,000 and was part of the great Waterford side of the 1960s and 1970s. He left for Lincoln City at the end of the 1971/72 season but moved back to the Blues in November 1974.

He was capped at Inter-League level by the Irish League and the League of Ireland.

Jimmy was appointed the first player-manager of Thurles Town in June 1977.

However, he departed for New York Apollo six months later. In 1980, the Apollo came under new ownership which renamed the team the New York United. In 1981, he was the American Soccer League Coach of the Year.