David Murphy (footballer)
With Birmingham City in 2011 pre-season
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Paul Murphy | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Hartlepool, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Middlesbrough | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2004 | Middlesbrough | 13 | (0) |
| 2004 | → Barnsley (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 2004–2008 | Hibernian | 107 | (4) |
| 2008–2014 | Birmingham City | 106 | (7) |
| Total | 236 | (13) | |
| National team | |||
| –2001 | England U16 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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David Paul Murphy (born 1 March 1984) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 200 appearances in the English and Scottish Leagues. Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, Murphy played as a left back.
Murphy started his professional career at Premier League side Middlesbrough in 2001, and remained at the club for three years, making sixteen appearances. During his time at Middlesbrough, he also had a loan spell with Division Two side Barnsley in 2004, where he made ten appearances. He left Middlesbrough for Scottish Premier League side Hibernian in the summer of 2004, and made 134 appearances for the club, before signing for Birmingham City in January 2008. He played 132 matches for the club in all competitions, and was an unused substitute as they won the 2011 League Cup Final, but his six-year stay was blighted by injuries, and he retired from football on medical advice in March 2014.
He played several times for England at under-16 level.
Murphy signed his first professional contract with Premier League side Middlesbrough in August 2001, having previously been part of the club's youth academy. He made his professional debut in a 3–1 victory over Northampton Town in the League Cup on 11 September 2001, a game where he also scored his first ever senior goal. He appeared in Middlesbrough's next League Cup match, a 2–1 defeat to Blackburn Rovers, before making his FA Cup debut on 16 February 2002, in a 1–0 victory over Blackburn. Three days later, he made his Premier League debut in a 2–1 victory over Fulham, coming off the substitute's bench around the hour mark to replace Robbie Mustoe. He went on to make a total of eight appearances during the 2001–02 season, scoring one goal.
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