{{Short description|Irish footballer and manager}} {{for|the English cricketer|Martin Bayley}} {{use Hiberno-English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Martin Bayly | image = | caption = | fullname = Martin Joseph Bayly | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|9|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | height = | position = Midfielder | youthyears1 = 1982–1984 | youthclubs1 = Wolverhampton Wanderers | years1 = 1984–1985 | clubs1 = Wolverhampton Wanderers | caps1 = 10 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1985 | clubs2 = Coventry City | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 1985–1988 | clubs3 = Sligo Rovers | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1988 | clubs4 = Derry City | caps4 = | goals4 = | years5 = 1988–1989 | clubs5 = UE Figueres | caps5 = 16 | goals5 = 2 | years6 = 1989–1990 | clubs6 = St Patrick's Athletic | caps6 = | goals6 = | years7 = 1990 | clubs7 = Derry City | caps7 = | goals7 = | years8 = 1990 | clubs8 = St James's Gate | caps8 = 3 | goals8 = 0 | years9 = 1990–1991 | clubs9 = Athlone Town | caps9 = 7 | goals9 = 3 | years10 = 1991–1992 | clubs10 = Monaghan United | caps10 = 24 | goals10 = 3 | years11 = 1992–1993 | clubs11 = Shamrock Rovers | caps11 = 9 | goals11 = 0 | years12 = 1993 | clubs12 = Home Farm | caps12 = 2 | goals12 = 0 | years13 = 1993 | clubs13 = Linfield | caps13 = 11 | goals13 = 0 | years14 = 1993–1996 | clubs14 = Home Farm | caps14 = | goals14 = | totalcaps = | totalgoals = | nationalyears1 = 1987 | nationalteam1 = Republic of Ireland U21 | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | manageryears1 = 1994–1996 | managerclubs1 = Home Farm }} '''Martin Joseph Bayly''' (born 14 September 1966) is an Irish former professional footballer and manager.
His older brother Ritchie Bayly and nephew Robert Bayly were also footballers.
==Club career== Born in Dublin, Bayly began his professional career as a youth player with local side Little Bray and English team Wolverhampton Wanderers. Bayly made his senior debut on 21 April 1984 in a 3–0 loss to Ipswich Town in the First Division, the first of seven consecutive appearances. He won the club's ''Young Player of the Year Award'' for the season, but made just three further appearances in the 1984–85 season before being released in the summer.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tony Matthews|title=The Wolves Who's Who|year=2001|publisher=Britespot|location=West Midlands|isbn=1-904103-01-4}}</ref> In total, Bayly made a total of ten appearances in the Football League for Wolves.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/wolves/wolves.html|title=WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS : 1946/47 – 2008/09|accessdate=29 October 2009|publisher=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database}}</ref>
Bayly was then briefly on the books at Coventry City before returning to his native Ireland to join Sligo Rovers. Bayly won the PFAI Young Player of the Year Award in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ierpoy.html|title=Ireland – Player of the Year and Other Awards|accessdate=29 October 2009|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}</ref>
While at Sligo, Bayly played in the last ever game at Glenmalure Park in April 1987. Bayly then guested for Shamrock Rovers in a tournament in South Korea in June 1987, before moving to Derry City in 1988. After a year in Spain with UE Figueres, Bayly returned to Ireland to play with a number of clubs including St Patrick's Athletic, Derry City, St James's Gate, Athlone Town and Monaghan United, before signing with Shamrock Rovers in May 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1992/0507/Pg015.html#Ar01507:33A7A03747B534374A36D7A236F7493D67A03827A03A57B534E7F937180E|title=News Archive – May 1992|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> Bayly was released by Shamrock Rovers in January 1993,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1993/0108/Pg019.html#Ar01900:0EA3B610E3D010E3B71143CF1153B51263CF08528A0CC3130CC28817B31023F40726A41E12D3B515D3CF1044DC11F4F31214DB12F4F30D454D0FE5650EB61E11563606E7000977180D777310178B|title=News Archive – January 1993|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>
==International career== Bayly appeared for Ireland in the 1984 UEFA European Under-18 Championship and the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=193001/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105072350/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=193001/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|title=Martin BAYLY|accessdate=29 October 2009|publisher=FIFA}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{PFAI Players' Young Player of the Year}}
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