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Ray Treacy
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D.O.B. :18/06/1946
Place of Birth :Dublin
D.O.D. :10/04/2015
He played 42 times (scoring 5 goals) for the Republic of Ireland national football team between 1966 and 1980. Treacy played 3 times scoring twice whilst at Milltown.

He made his international debut on 4 May 1966 in a 4–0 defeat against West Germany, his last was against Czechoslovakia in 1980. He played in the first ever Republic of Ireland U23 game in 1966.

As a youth Treacy played with Home Farm F.C.. He made 5 first team appearances for West Bromwich Albion, scoring one goal, before joining Charlton Athletic in February 1968. Later moving to join Swindon Town, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic (on loan) before returning to West Bromwich Albion in August 1976 where he finished his English career. In 290 league appearances he scored 78 goals.

He then joined the Shamrock Rovers in 1977 under Johnny Giles and in three seasons at Milltown he scored 35 league goals from the 71 games he played in. He made 3 appearances in European competitions, but was most prominently remembered by Rovers fans when his penalty against Sligo helped win the FAI Cup in 1978.

Treacy almost scored a hat trick for the Republic of Ireland national football team against Turkey in April 1978. The two goals he scored (along with the games opening goal by Johnny Giles) represent the last occasion that a home-based player has scored for the senior Irish national team.

Treacy represented the League of Ireland in a friendly against Argentina in the Boca Junior Stadium in April 1978. In all he earned two Inter League caps during his spell at Milltown. In April 1979 Treacy was sent off after coming on as a substitute for the League of Ireland XI against Italian League B.

Management career

He was player/manager at Drogheda United for two seasons from 1980 scoring 11 goals resigning on 19 December 1982. He then managed Home Farm.

He was granted a testimonial against the full national side in May 1989. Controversially he was one of the backers behind the baffling move to install "Dublin City" into the Scottish Second Division in January 1990 despite managing in the League of Ireland at the same time. He resigned from the Farm in September 1990.

He returned to Rovers as manager in January 1992 and won the title in the 1993–94 season. In his 4 years at the RDS Arena his overall record was

169 66 42 61,222,186

However he also brought one of the worst prepared Rovers teams in history into European competition where they were hammered 7–0 by Górnik Zabrze.

In October 2009 he retired from his travel business and he died on 10 April 2015 aged 68.




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Ray Treacy's playing record
Season Openin. Subst. Goals Yellows Reds
1966 2 0 0 0 0
1967 2 0 1 0 0
1968 2 0 0 0 0
1969 4 1 0 0 0
1970 3 3 0 0 0
1971 1 0 0 0 0
1972 6 0 1 0 0
1973 5 0 0 1 0
1974 2 0 0 0 0
1975 4 0 1 0 0
1976 0 2 0 0 0
1977 2 0 0 0 0
1978 2 0 2 0 0
1979 0 1 0 0 0
Total 35 7 5 1 0
By season | In opening squad | Substituted in | Goals | Yellow cards | Red cards



Ray Treacy's full debut
04.05.1966 at 20:00 Friendly / Prog H Germany 0 - 4


Last 10 games where Ray Treacy started | Show All
12.04.1978 at 00:00 Friendly A Poland 0 - 3
05.04.1978 at 00:00 Friendly / Prog H Turkey 4 - 2
24.04.1977 at 00:00 Friendly / Prog H Poland 0 - 0
30.03.1977 at 00:00 World Cup Qualifier / Prog H France 1 - 0
29.10.1975 at 00:00 European Cup Qualifier / Prog H Turkey 4 - 0
21.05.1975 at 00:00 European Cup Qualifier / Prog A Switzerland 0 - 1
10.05.1975 at 00:00 European Cup Qualifier / Prog H Switzerland 2 - 1
11.03.1975 at 00:00 Friendly / Prog H West Germany "B" 1 - 0
30.10.1974 at 19:30 European Cup Qualifier / PROG* H Soviet Union 3 - 0
05.05.1974 at 00:00 Friendly A Brazil 1 - 2


Last 10 games in which Ray Treacy scored.
05.04.1978 at 00:00 Friendly / Prog H Turkey 4 - 2
10.05.1975 at 00:00 European Cup Qualifier / Prog H Switzerland 2 - 1
15.11.1972 at 00:00 World Cup Qualifier / Prog H France 2 - 1
22.11.1967 at 00:00 European Cup Qualifier / Prog A Czechoslovakia 2 - 1


Games in which Ray Treacy was a Substitute.
26.09.1979 Friendly / Prog A Czechoslovakia 1 - 4
26.05.1976 Friendly A Poland 2 - 0
24.03.1976 Friendly / PROG H Norway 3 - 0
14.10.1970 European Cup Qualifier / PROG H Sweden 1 - 1
09.05.1970 Friendly / PROG A Germany 1 - 2
06.05.1970 Friendly A Poland 1 - 2
05.11.1969 World Cup Qualifier A Hungary 0 - 4
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