Neil Kilkenny
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| Full name | Neil Martin Kilkenny | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 December 1985 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Enfield, England | |||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Melbourne City | |||||||||||
| Number | 8 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Arsenal | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Birmingham City | 26 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004–2005 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 27 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 20 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2008 | → Leeds United (loan) | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Leeds United | 122 | (8) | |||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Bristol City | 68 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2013–2014 | → Preston North End (loan) | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Preston North End | 68 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Melbourne City | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | England U-18 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Republic of Ireland U-19 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004–2005 | England U-20 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Australia U-23 | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006– | Australia | 14 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:53, 8 October 2016 (UTC). |
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Neil Martin Kilkenny (born 19 December 1985) is a football player who plays for Melbourne City. A midfielder, he began his career in the youth system at Arsenal, and went on to play league football for Oldham Athletic, Birmingham City, Leeds United, Bristol City and Preston North End before joining Melbourne City in 2016.
He has 14 caps for Australia, and competed for that country at the 2008 Olympics.
Born in Enfield, Middlesex, Kilkenny moved to Australia with his family at the age of four, and grew up in Brisbane. A promising schoolboy footballer, he captained the Queensland schools' representative team. When Kilkenny was eleven, the family returned to England to maximise his chances of making a career in the game. At twelve, he was invited to join Arsenal's youth development scheme, and while a student at Ravenscroft School, Barnet, he played for Middlesex Schools and appeared for Arsenal's under-17 team. In July 2002 he began a two-year scholarship programme in Arsenal's Academy.
By the 2003–04 season, he had graduated to Arsenal's under-19 team and once been an unused substitute for the reserves, and had played international football for Republic of Ireland under-19s, qualifying via Irish paternal grandparents, and for England under-18s. However, he became unhappy at Arsenal, chose to leave the club, and after trials with clubs including Aston Villa, Manchester City and Leicester City, he joined Birmingham City on a free transfer in January 2004.
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