Paddy Coad
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Patrick Coad | ||
| Date of birth | 4 April 1920 | ||
| Place of birth | Waterford, Ireland | ||
| Date of death | 8 March 1992 (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Waterford, Ireland | ||
| Playing position | Inside Left / Inside Right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1936 | Corinthians | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1937–1939 | Waterford United | ? | (8) |
| 1939 | Glenavon | ? | (?) |
| 1939–1942 | Waterford United | ? | (13) |
| 1942–1959 | Shamrock Rovers | 274 | (104) |
| 1959–1961 | Waterford United | 27 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 1943–1955 | League of Ireland XI | 26 | (2) |
| 1946–1952 | Ireland | 11 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1949–1960 | Shamrock Rovers | ||
| 1960–1963 | Waterford United | ||
| 1964–1967 | Waterford United | ||
| 1967–1968 | Limerick F.C. | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Paddy Coad (4 April 1920 – 8 March 1992) is a former Irish football player and manager. He played as a forward for Waterford United, Glenavon, Shamrock Rovers and Ireland. Although known, primarily, as a maker of goals, Coad scored 126 goals in the League of Ireland and a further 41 in the FAI Cup. In 1946–47 he was top goalscorer in the League of Ireland. As a player manager he also guided Rovers to three League of Ireland titles and two FAI Cups, before he returned to Waterford and guided them to their first league title in 1966. He was appointed manager of Limerick F.C. in September 1967.
Coad was educated at De La Salle school in Stephen Street in Waterford and first distinguished himself as a sportsman playing hurling and table tennis. He was even Munster champion at the latter sport. He also began to play football with Corinthians, a local junior club based in Lower Yellow Road area of Waterford. He was soon spotted by Waterford United, making his League of Ireland debut in 1937 while still only 17. He then moved to Irish Football League club Glenavon but returned to Waterford after the start of the Second World War. He was a member of the Waterford United that finished as a runners up to Cork United in both the League of Ireland and the FAI Cup. Waterford could have won the league title, but their players refused to turn up for a play-off game against Cork after a dispute over bonus payments.
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