Glen Crowe

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Crowe began his career with local Irish side St Mochta's, joining the youth setup at the age of 7. Stella Maris showed an interest in Crowe for several years and he eventually signed for the club and played in the Dublin & District Schoolboy League. At the age of 17, Crowe spent time on trial with Division One side Wolverhampton Wanderers, attending three separate trials with the club before being offered a one-year YTS contract. He spent the majority of his first season at Molineux in the youth team but was handed his professional debut on 30 April 1996 as a substitute during a 3–0 defeat to Reading. In the following match, the final game of the 1995–96 season, Crowe started his first match for Wolves against Charlton Athletic in May 1996 and scored his side's only goal during a 1–1 draw. He had loan spells at Cardiff City, Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle.

Bohemians and Shelbourne

Crowe returned to Dublin to join Bohemians, managed by Roddy Collins, in pre-season 1999. After scoring on his League of Ireland debut on 19 September 1999 in a 3–1 loss to Shamrock Rovers [1], Crowe ended up as top scorer for Bohemians in his first season with 9 league goals. The following season (2000/01), Glen formed a potent partnership with new-signing Trevor Molloy and broke the League goal-scoring record by hitting 25 league goals (35 in all competitions) as Bohemians won their first league title since 1978 and their first league and FAI Cup double…

Crowe played for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 football team in the 1996 UEFA European Under-18 Championship finals in Luxembourg and was part of the squad for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship in Malaysia. Due to the extreme humidity that they would encounter, Crowe and the squad trained in raincoats for a week at the University of Limerick to prepare for the tournament. Ireland finished in third place after winning a third place play-off match against Ghana. In November 2002, as a Bohemians player, Crowe became the first League of Ireland player to be capped by Ireland for 16 years (the last being Pat Byrne of Shamrock Rovers) when Don Givens selected him in a friendly international against Greece which finished 0-0. He won his second cap for Ireland in April 2003, coming on as a late substitute in a 1-0 friendly international win against Norway at Lansdowne Road.

Glen Crowe's grandad is Liam Crowe, who played football for the Irish Army, including a match against the Republic of Ireland national football team on 23 April 1944. Liam Crowe also played for Shamrock Rovers and won the FAI Cup in 1944. He also played for Shelbourne, St Patrick's Athletic, Dundalk and St James's Gate.

Club

Individual PFAI Players' Player of the Year 2000–01, 2002–03: 2 SWAI Personality of the Year: 2000–01, 2002–03: 2 League of Ireland Player of the Year: 2000–01, 2001–02: 2 League of Ireland Premier Division Top Scorer 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03: 3 Bohemians League of Ireland Premier Division: 2000–01, 2002–03, 2008, 2009: 4 FAI Cup: 2001, 2008: 2 League of Ireland Cup: 2009: 1 Shelbourne League of Ireland Premier Division: 2006 Republic of Ireland FIFA World Youth Championship: Third Place: 1997