Robbie Gaffney is a former Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 footballer

Football (soccer)

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He signed for Shamrock Rovers

Shamrock Rovers F.C.

Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...

 under Seán Thomas

Seán Thomas

Seán Thomas was a former Irish football manager who died on 24 June 1999.-Club Management:One of the very first coaches to study for coaching badges Thomas had short spells as coach at Sligo Rovers and Home Farm F.C. before moving to Shamrock Rovers in 1961 for Rovers' tour in the International...

 at the tail end of the 1975/76 season. He made his League of Ireland

League of Ireland

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 debut for Shamrock Rovers at Flower Lodge against Albert Rovers on 5 October 1976. He won the League of Ireland Cup and made 4 appearances in European competition

UEFA

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 while at Glenmalure Park

Glenmalure Park

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On the 12th of September 1979, he played for Republic of Ireland U21

Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team

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 against Poland.

That season he was the first recipient of the Shamrock Rovers Player of the Year award Shamrock Rovers F.C.#Player of the Year Award recipients

He signed for University College Dublin

University College Dublin

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 in August 1983 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1983/0825/Pg004.html#Ar00405:203A5A22AA6D152A67181A7A
He won the FAI Cup in a shock win over his previous club in May 1984 and played in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup against Everton. After a spell at Shelbourne he joined Pats where under Brian Kerr he won the League Championship in 1990 as well as playing in the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 and UEFA Cup

UEFA Cup

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 while at Richmond Park

Richmond Park

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At the 2006 Shamrock Rovers Player of the Year award Robbie was inducted into the Rovers Hall of Fame http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/newsarchive.php

A life-long fan and club member of Shamrock Rovers FC, he has maintained his ties with the club attending games on a weekly basis.

Team

League of Ireland

League of Ireland

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• St Patrick's Athletic FC - 1989/90

FAI Cup

FAI Cup

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• UCD - 1984

League of Ireland Cup: 1

• Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...
  
   - 1976/77
• Leinster Senior Cup
  Leinster Senior Cup (football)
  The Leinster Senior Cup is an association football cup competition organised by the Leinster Football Association. It contested by the top League of Ireland sides based in the province in Leinster along with four Leinster Senior League sides and the two Leinster Junior Cup finalists. The Cup was...
  
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• Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...
  
   - 1982

Personal

• Player of the Year: 1
• Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers F.C.
  Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...
  
   - 1979/80

Sources

• The Hoops by Paul Doolan and Robert Goggins (ISBN 0-7171-2121-6)