Paddy Moore

Paddy Moore
Personal information
Full name Patrick Moore
Date of birth (1909-08-04)4 August 1909
Place of birth Ballybough, County Dublin, Ireland
Date of death 24 July 1951(1951-07-24) (aged 41)
Place of death Dublin
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Cloncliffe Celtic
Bendigo
192x–1928 Richmond Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1929 Shamrock Rovers
1929 Cardiff City 1 (0)
1930 Merthyr Town 5 (0)
1930 Tranmere Rovers 4 (0)
1930–1932 Shamrock Rovers ? (25)
1932–1935 Aberdeen 66 (45)
1935–1937 Shamrock Rovers (6)
Shelbourne
1937–1938 Brideville
1938–19xx Shamrock Rovers
International career
1931–1936 Irish Free State 9 (7)
1932 Ireland (IFA) 1 (0)
1932 League of Ireland XI 1 (2)
Managerial career
1940s Stella Maris
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paddy Moore (4 August 1909 – 24 July 1951) was an Irish professional footballer who played for, among others, Shamrock Rovers and Aberdeen. Moore was a dual internationalist and played for both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI.

In February 1934 Moore scored four goals for the FAI XI in a World Cup qualifier against Belgium. As a result, he became the first player ever to score four goals in a World Cup game. However injury and alcoholism combined to blight both his career and life and he was only 41 when he died. In September 2006 Moore was posthumously honoured by Shamrock Rovers at their Legends Ball.[1]

In October 2015 the Shamrock Rovers Heritage Trust unveiled a new gravestone for Moore and his family at Glasnevin Cemetery[2]

  1. ^ "Shamrock Rovers F.C. -". Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
  2. ^ <https://dublininquirer.com/2022/06/08/one-man-works-to-mark-the-graves-of-great-shamrock-rovers-players-long-passed/