Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nicholas Vincent Colgan | ||
Date of birth | 19 September 1973 | ||
Place of birth | Drogheda, Ireland | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Huddersfield Town (Goalkeeping Coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1991–1992 | Drogheda United | ? | (?) |
1992–1998 | Chelsea | 1 | (0) |
1993 | → Crewe Alexandra (loan) | 0 | (0) |
1994 | → Grimsby Town (loan) | 0 | (0) |
1995 | → Millwall (loan) | 0 | (0) |
1997 | → Brentford (loan) | 5 | (0) |
1998 | → Reading (loan) | 5 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Bournemouth | 0 | (0) |
1999–2004 | Hibernian | 121 | (0) |
2003–2004 | → (loan) | 15 | (0) |
2004–2008 | Barnsley | 101 | (0) |
2005 | → Dundee United (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2008 | Ipswich Town | 0 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Sunderland | 0 | (0) |
2009–2011 | Grimsby Town | 35 | (0) |
2010 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2011–2013 | Huddersfield Town | 0 | (0) |
Total | 284 | (0) | |
National team‡ | |||
2002–2007 | Republic of Ireland | 10 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 January 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC) |
Nicholas Vincent "Nick" Colgan (born 19 September 1973) is an Irish former professional footballer who works as the head goalkeeping coach for Football Championship side Huddersfield Town.
As a player, he was a goalkeeper from 1991 to 2013 and first briefly played for his hometown club Drogheda United between 1991 and 1992 before signing for Premier League side Chelsea. Whilst at Stamford Bridge he often found himself as back-up to the likes of Dmitri Kharine and Frode Grodas and spent time on loan at Crewe Alexandra, Grimsby Town, Millwall, Brentford and Reading. He joined Bournemouth permanently in 1998 where he stayed for a year before a move to Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. Colgan made over 120 appearances in the league between 1999 and 2004 and went on to earn his first full international cap for the Republic of Ireland. In 2004 following a loan spell with he joined Barnsley where he played for four years and also helping the club to promotion to the Football League Championship in 2006. In 2008, he joined Ipswich Town as an understudy to Stephen Bywater but left the club a few months later after failing to make an appearance, and with that returned to the Premier League when he joined Sunderland. A year later he returned to Grimsby Town and was the first choice keeper when the club were to lose their Football League following relegation to the Conference. Colgan lost his place in the team the following year and was loaned out to Huddersfield Town before later making the move permanent.