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{{for|the politician|Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan}}
{{for|the politician|Martin GAY'Neill, Baron GAY'Neill of Clackmannan}}
{{Football manager infobox
{{Football manager infobox
| playername = Martin O'Neill, [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| playername = Martin GAY'Neill, [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| image = [[Image:O'Neill, Martin.jpg]]
| image = [[Image:GAY'Neill, Martin.jpg]]
| fullname = Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill
| fullname = Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill
| nickname = Aston Martin, Midas
| nickname = Ass Martin, Midas
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1952|3|1}}
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1832|3|1}}
| cityofbirth = [[Kilrea]]
| cityofbirth = [[Kilrea]]
| countryofbirth = [[Northern Ireland]]
| countryofbirth = [[Northern Ireland]]
| currentclub = [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
| currentclub = [[Ass tongue Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
| position = [[Midfielder]] (retired)
| position = [[Midfielder]] (retired)
| youthyears = 1969–1971
| youthyears = 1969–1971
| youthclubs = [[Derry City F.C.|Derry City]]
| youthclubs = [[GAY City F.C.|Derry City]]
| years =
| years = 1971<br>1971&ndash;1981<br/>1981<br/>1981&ndash;1982<br/>1982&ndash;1983<br/>1983&ndash;1985
| clubs = [[Distillery F.C.]]<br />[[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]<br />[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]<br />[[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]<br />[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]<br />[[Notts County F.C.|Notts County]]<br />'''Total'''
| caps(goals) = {{0}}{{0}}? {{0}}(?)<br />285 (48)<br />{{0}}11 {{0}}(1)<br />{{0}}13 {{0}}(0)<br />{{0}}55 (11)<br />{{0}}64 {{0}}(5)<br />'''428 (65)'''
| nationalyears = 1971&ndash;1984
| nationalteam = [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]]
| nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}64 {{0}}(8)
| manageryears = 1987&ndash;1989<br />1989&ndash;1990<br />1990&ndash;1995<br />1995<br />1995&ndash;2000<br />2000&ndash;2005<br />2006&ndash;
| managerclubs = [[Grantham Town F.C.|Grantham Town]]<br>[[Shepshed Dynamo F.C.|Shepshed Charterhouse]]<br>[[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]]<br>[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]<br>[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]<br>[[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]<br>[[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
}}

'''Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]''', (born [[March 1]] [[1952]] in [[Kilrea]], [[Northern Ireland]]) is a former [[Northern Ireland national football team]] captain who has previously managed [[Wycombe Wanderers]], [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]], [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] and [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] and is currently [[coach (sport)|manager]] of [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]. O'Neill is perhaps best known for his time as Celtic manager between 2000 and 2005 when he led the club to 3 Scottish Premier League titles and the [[The Bhoys from Seville|2003 UEFA Cup Final in Seville]].

==Early life==
As well as association football, he played [[Gaelic football]] as a youth, winning the MacRory Cup in 1970 at college in [[Belfast]]. He attended [[St. Malachy's College]] with Irish chef [[Eamonn Ó Catháin]]. While at St. Malachy's, he first came to public attention as a soccer player with local side [[Distillery F.C.]]. This breached the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] prohibition on gaelic footballers' playing "foreign sports", and the resulting disputes heightened O'Neill's profile. After completing his education at [[St. Columb's College]], [[Derry]], he began a [[academic degree|degree]] in [[law]] at the [[Queen's University of Belfast]]. While at [[Distillery F.C.]], he won the [[Irish Cup]] in 1971 scoring twice in the final. He also scored against [[FC Barcelona]] in the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] in a 3-1 home defeat in September 1971. It was during this period he was spotted by a [[scout (sport)|scout]] for [[Nottingham Forest F.C.]], for whom he signed in 1971, quitting his studies.

==Playing career==
O'Neill progressed slowly as a player until the legendary [[Brian Clough]] arrived at the City Ground as manager in 1975 and made him a key part of his [[midfield]]. O'Neill went on to play an integral role in Forest's golden era, in which they gained promotion to the top flight, then won the [[Football League First Division|League]] and [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] in 1978, followed by further League Cup success a year later and the first of two [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] triumphs.
O'Neill was a regular for his country, captaining the [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]] side at a memorable [[1982 FIFA World Cup]] in [[Spain]], which included defeating [[Spain national football team|the host nation]] in [[Valencia (city in Spain)|Valencia]]. He played 62 times for Northern Ireland. At club level he also played for [[Norwich City F.C.]], [[Manchester City F.C.]] and [[Notts County F.C.]] before retiring.

==Managerial career==
After his playing career, O'Neill began a sensational career in football management, initially at [[Grantham Town F.C.|Grantham Town]] in 1987. After a brief spell at the helm of Shepshed Charterhouse, he managed non-league [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]], and took them into the [[Football League]] as [[Football Conference|Conference]] champions in 1993. They had narrowly missed out on promotion [[1992|the previous year]] after a two-horse race with [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=844&id=525612003|publisher=scotsman|title=Martin}}</ref>. He became manager of [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] in the summer of 1995, but left the club in December of that year due to differences with club chairman Robert Chase.

===Leicester City===
He joined [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] immediately after leaving Norwich. After a difficult start he achieved great success at the club, gaining promotion via the play-offs to the Premiership in the same season as joining the club. Leicester finished in the top half of the [[FA Premier League|Premiership]] in every season O'Neill was manager. They also won the [[Football League Cup]] under O'Neill in 1997 and 2000, as well as reaching the 1999 final of the competition. They finished ninth in 1997, tenth in 1998 and 1999, and eighth in 2000. The two League Cup triumphs saw them qualify for the [[UEFA Cup]] each time, though both campaigns were short-lived.

During his time at Leicester, O'Neill held talks to become manager of [[Leeds United A.F.C.|Leeds United]] but declined the job after thousands of supporters held up placards saying "Don't go Martin!" in an effort to make him stay.

===Celtic===
O'Neill did eventually leave Leicester on [[1 June]] [[2000]], taking over from the team of [[John Barnes (football player)|John Barnes]] and [[Kenny Dalglish]] to become manager of [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]. It was at Celtic that O'Neill gained his nicknames "Martin the Magnificent" and "the Blessed Martin". O'Neill's first [[Old Firm]] game ended in a dramatic 6-2 victory for Celtic over Rangers and did much to overturn the psychological advantage previously held by Rangers. In that first season O'Neill's Celtic won the domestic treble. He was also the first Celtic manager to take the team into the revamped Champions League (a feat he managed three times). In the first season in the CL Celtic were eliminated in spite of having 9 points. Perhaps his greatest achievement was to guide Celtic to the [[2003 UEFA Cup Final]] held in [[Seville]]. Celtic lost 3-2 in extra time, to a [[F.C. Porto|Porto]] side coached by [[Jose Mourinho]]. In his five seasons at Celtic Park, O'Neill won three League titles, three Scottish Cups, and a League Cup. He also oversaw a record 7 consecutive victories in Old Firm derbies, and in season 2003-04 Celtic created a British record of 25 consecutive victories. During this time, O'Neill's name was linked with a number of high-profile jobs in England.

On [[25 May]] [[2005]], Celtic announced that O'Neill was resigning as manager at the end of the 2004/05 season to care for his wife Geraldine, who has [[lymphoma]].

O'Neill's last competitive game in charge of [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] was the Scottish Cup final 1 &ndash; 0 victory over [[Dundee United F.C.|Dundee United]] on [[28 May]] [[2005]], decided by an eleventh minute goal by [[Alan Thompson (footballer)|Alan Thompson]]. Celtic had an impressive record under O'Neill, playing 282 games and winning 213, drawing 29 and losing 40.

===Leeds contract===
Revelations in [[Peter Ridsdale]]'s book 'United We Fall', later confirmed by O'Neill,<ref name=BBCLeeds>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7076789.stm |title=O'Neill admits to Leeds agreement |publisher=BBC |date=2007-11-03 |accessdate=2007-11-04}}</ref> have shown that he signed a conditional agreement with Ridsdale in January 2003, to leave Celtic and become [[Leeds United AFC]] manager. This deal subsequently fell through on the departure of Ridsdale from Leeds, one of the conditions for the deal, and the failure of Ridsdale to remove [[Terry Venables]] as manager. O'Neill has since hit out at Ridsdale, describing the agreement as 'full of conditions that hadn't been true' and blaming Celtic's failure to offer a new contact as his reason for the deal.<ref name=BBCLeeds/>

===Aston Villa===
[[Image:MON.jpg|thumb|Giving a speech at Columbus Crew, during a Villa tour.]]
O'Neill was introduced as the [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] manager at a press conference on [[August 4]], [[2006]]. At the press conference he stated "It's absolutely fantastic to be back and with a club such as this. This is a fantastic challenge. I am well aware of the history of this football club. Trying to restore it to its days of former glory seems a long way away - but why not try? It is nearly 25&nbsp;years since they won the [[European Cup]] but that is the dream."

Villa's form improved substantially following O'Neill's appointment. They had the longest unbeaten start of any Premiership side in 2006-07 (9 games), not losing a league game until [[28 October]].

Villa suffered a mid-season slump but recovered late in the season, winning their three away games in April under O'Neill's guidance, to end the season how it began with a run of 9 unbeaten fixtures. For this O'Neill scooped the Barclays Manager of the Month for April.

In October 2007 O'Neill was linked to the England manager position after England lost in the [[Euro 2008]] qualifiers.<ref name="linktoengland">{{cite news |url=http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19102007/58/euro-2008-villa-free-o-neill-england.html |title=Villa free O'Neill for England |publisher=Eurosport |accessdate=2007-11-04}}</ref> [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]'s owner [[Randy Lerner]] said that he would not stop O'Neill from leaving Villa if offered the job, because he respects that the title of England manager is a very prestigious position.<ref name="linktoengland"/> O'Neill later dismissed the reports, calling them "unfair speculation".<ref name"negativeresponse">{{cite news |url=http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19102007/58/premier-league-o-neill-unfair-speculation.html |title=O'Neill dismisses "unfair speculation" |publisher=Eurosport |accessdate=2007-11-04}}</ref>

==Outside football==

Despite never completing his degree, O'Neill remains an avid follower of [[criminology]] and has attended some of Britain's most infamous trials, including those of the [[Yorkshire Ripper]] and [[Rosemary West]]. His fascination began with the [[A6 murder|James Hanratty]] case of 1961.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Kehoe |title=Bhoy wonder |url=http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/05/30/story549886948.asp |publisher=The Sunday Business Post |date=[[2004-05-30]] |accessdate=2007-08-20}}</ref>

Martin O'Neill was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] for services to sport in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/3357679.stm|publisher=BBC|title=Martin's OBE}}</ref> In 2002, Norwich supporters voted him into the club's [[Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]].

==Playing honours==

====={{flagicon|Northern Ireland}} [[Northern Ireland national football team]]=====
*'''Winners'''
**[[British Home Championship]] &ndash; 1980, 1984
====={{flagicon|Northern Ireland}} Distillery=====
*'''Winners'''
**[[Irish FA]] [[Irish Cup|Cup]]&ndash; 1971
====={{flagicon|England}} Nottingham Forest F.C. 1971&ndash;1981=====
*'''Winners'''
**European Super Cup &ndash; 1980
**European Cup &ndash; 1979, 1980
**Football League Championship &ndash; 1977/78
**League Cup &ndash; 1978, 1979

*'''Runners-Up
**European Super Cup &ndash; 1981
**Football League Championship &ndash; 1978/79

==Managerial honours==
====={{flagicon|England}} Wycombe Wanderers F.C. 1990&ndash;1995=====
*'''Winners'''
**Football Conference &ndash; 1993
**FA Trophy &ndash; 1991, 1993
**Division 3 Play&ndash;Off Winners &ndash; 1994

====={{flagicon|England}} Leicester City F.C. 1995&ndash;2000=====
*'''Winners'''
**Promotion to Premier League &ndash; 1995/96
**League Cup;(2) 1997,2000

*'''Runners-up
**League Cup &ndash; 1999

====={{flagicon|Scotland}} Celtic F.C. 2000&ndash;2005=====
*'''Winners'''
**SPL Championship (3) &ndash; 2000/01, 2001/02, 2003/04
**[[Scottish Cup]] (3) &ndash; 2001, 2004, 2005
**[[Scottish League Cup]] (1) &ndash; 2000/01

*'''Runners-up
**[[UEFA Cup 2002-03#Final|UEFA Cup Runner-Up]] &ndash; 2002/03
**[[Scottish Cup]] &ndash; 2001/02
**[[Scottish League Cup]] &ndash; 2002/03
**SPL Championship &ndash; 2002/03 , 2004/05

===Manager Awards===
*O'Neill has won the [[FA Premier League Manager of the Month]] award 5 times.
*O'Neill has won the SPL Manager of the Month award 9 times.
*O'Neill has won the [[Scottish Football Writers' Association|Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager Of The Year]] award 3 times.

==Managerial stats==

* Last updated [[1 March]] [[2008]]:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|+ '''<big>Managerial Record</big>'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Martin O'Neils' managerial career |url=http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=932|publisher=www.soccerbase.com |date=[[2008-02-28]] |accessdate=2008-02-28}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
!rowspan="2"|Notes
|-
!G!!W!!D!!L!!Win %
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|England}}[[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]]
|align=left|[[February 7]] [[1990]]
|align=left|[[June 13]] [[1995]]
||112||52||32||28||46.42
|<small>Conference Title, 2 FA Trophies, (2 Promotions)</small>
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|England}}[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]
|align=left|[[June 13]] [[1995]]
|align=left|[[November 17]] [[1995]]
||20||9||7||4||45.00
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|England}}[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]
|align=left|[[December 21]] [[1995]]
|align=left|[[June 1]] [[2000]]
||223||85||68||70||38.11
|<small>2 League Cups, (Promotion)</small>
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|Scotland}}[[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]
|align=left|[[June 1]] [[2000]]
|align=left|[[May 31]] [[2005]]
||282||213||29||40||75.53
|<small>3 League Titles, 3 Domestic Cups, League Cup</small>
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|England}}[[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
|align=left|[[August 5]] [[2006]]
|align=left|''Present''
||73||27||26||20||36.98
|-
|align=left|'''''Total'''''
|align=left|[[February 7]] [[1990]]
|align=left|''Present''
||701||385||158||160||54.92
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{soccerbase (manager)|id=932|name=Martin O'Neill}}
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/tv_radio_coverage/newsid_1987000/1987736.stm BBC biography]
*[http://www.thegingerbreads.co.uk/gtfcstats/player.php?id=1678 Grantham Town profile]
*[http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/oneill.htm Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk]

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| title = [[Scottish Football Writers' Association]]<br> Manager of The Year
| years = 2001, 2002
| after = [[Alex McLeish]]
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| before = [[Alex McLeish]]
| title = [[Scottish Football Writers' Association]]<br> Manager of The Year
| years = 2004
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| before = ''Unknown''
| title = [[Grantham Town F.C.|Grantham Town]] manager
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| after = [[John Neilson Robertson|John Robertson]]
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| title = [[Shepshed Dynamo F.C.|Shepshed Charterhouse]] manager
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| after = ''Unknown''
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| before = [[Jim Kelman]]
| title = [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]] manager
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| after = [[Alan Smith (manager)|Alan Smith]]
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| before = [[John Deehan]]
| title = [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] manager
| years = 1995
| after = [[Gary Megson]]
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| before = [[Mark McGhee]]
| title = [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] manager
| years = 1995-2000
| after = [[Peter Taylor (footballer born 1953)|Peter Taylor]]
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{{succession box
| before = [[Kenny Dalglish]]
| title = [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] manager
| years = 2000-2005
| after = [[Gordon Strachan]]
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{{succession box
| before = [[David O'Leary]]
| title = [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] manager
| years = 2006-
| after = ''Incumbent''
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Revision as of 10:44, 11 March 2008

For the politician, see Martin GAY'Neill, Baron GAY'Neill of Clackmannan.

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