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The Manager : Stephen Kenny
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Bohemian Football Club is delighted to announce that Stephen Kenny is our new manager. |
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Widely recognised as the up-and-coming manager in the League, Stephen's achievements with Longford Town have more than caught the imagination. Under Stephen Kenny, Longford Town were transformed from a rock-bottom First Division side to one that could compete with honour in Europe in just three years. Indeed their UEFA Cup opponents, Litex Lovech, have only recently exited the competition by the slimmest of margins. |
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We are confident that, given the talent and resources already here at Dalymount Park, allied to fulsome support and encouragement from us all at Bohemians, Stephen Kenny will lead Ireland's champion club through many more exciting chapters in its illustrious history. |
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Stephen Kenny's clubs as a player were Belvedere Boys, St Patrick's Athletic, Bluebell United, Home Farm, and Tallaght Town. He helped Bluebell to an FAI Intermediate Cup triumph, and won the National League Reserve Division with St Pat's. A defender, he made his National League d�but with Home Farm against Longford Town on 13 March 1994. |
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Born in Dublin on January 30th 1971 , Stephen Kenny began his coaching career with Tallaght Town, where he was player-coach and co-managed with Paddy Dempsey. Promoted three times in succession, the plan to take Tallaght Town into the National League was only hindered by a lack of financial backing. Tallaght Town were playing at the highest level in the Leinster Senior League when they were taken over by Shamrock Rovers. At this point came an invite from Pat Dolan to join the backroom staff at St Patrick's Athletic. He was reluctant at first, as the return to his former club would curtail his own playing career, but the ability to make difficult decisions has proved one of his strengths.
Stephen Kenny managed St Pat's Under 21 League-winning side in 1997/98. More importantly he also coached their first team along with Noel O'Reilly which won the National League Premier Division title that same year when he worked with two of Bohemians' current squad, Trevor Molloy and Colin Hawkins.
In the summer of '98 Stephen was appointed manager of Longford Town; they had finished tenth of the ten-team First Division with just two wins to their name. He had them challenging for promotion in his first season and they eventually finished fourth with 15 wins, all the more remarkable in that most of the players he'd brought in had little or no National League experience. They also reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup, losing on penalties away to St Pat's.
In season 1999/2000 Longford Town won promotion for the first time in their history, and last season they turned even more heads in the Premier Division before eventually finishing a very comfortable fifth. After winning replays away to Cork City and St Pat's, the Town progressed to their first FAI Cup final appearance against champions Bohemians in May 2001, thus guaranteeing their first taste of European football. |
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