Last Irish Player To Start For Each 2016/17 Premier League Club

With the new Premier League season fast approaching, we've taken a look at the records to see who the last Irish player was to start for each club, and when this happened. Having never played a Premier League game, promoted sides Brighton and Huddersfield are omitted from the final results, leaving Swansea as the only current Premier League team to have never started an Irish player during their stay in the top flight.

Arsenal have gone the longest since starting one of the Boys in Green, Eddie McGoldrick started their final game of the 1993/94 season under George Graham away to Newcastle - none of the Scot's successors has started an Irish player in the Premier League.

Damien Delaney and Robbie Keane hold the distinction of being the last Irish player to start in the top flight for two separate clubs, Delaney for Leicester in March 2002, and also for Crystal Palace this past April, while Robbie Keane is the last Irish player to start for Liverpool in January 2009 against local rivals Everton, and also for Tottenham Hotspur in his second spell at the club in October 2010 against Manchester United.

Club	Date	Home	Score	Away	Starting Players
Arsenal	7 May 1994	Newcastle Utd	2-0	Arsenal	Eddie McGoldrick
Watford	6 May 2000	Middlesbrough	1-1	Watford	Dominic Foley
Leicester City	16 March 2002	Southampton	2-2	Leicester City	Damien Delaney
Chelsea	7 May 2006	Newcastle Utd	1-0	Chelsea	Damien Duff
Liverpool	19 January 2009	Liverpool	1-1	Everton	Robbie Keane
Manchester City	24 April 2010	Arsenal	0-0	Manchester City	Shay Given
Tottenham	30 October 2010	Manchester United	2-0	Tottenham	Robbie Keane
Manchester United	26 December 2011	Manchester United	5-0	Wigan	Darron Gibson
Newcastle Utd	20 March 2016	Newcastle Utd	1-1	Sunderland	Robert Elliot
Everton	18 March 2017	Everton	4-0	Hull City	Seamus Coleman
West Ham United	15 April 2017	Sunderland	2-2	West Ham United	Darren Randolph
Crystal Palace	29 April 2017	Crystal Palace	0-2	Burnley	Damien Delaney
Bournemouth	13 May 2017	Bournemouth	2-1	Burnley	Harry Arter
Southampton	13 May 2017	Middlesbrough	1-2	Southampton	Shane Long
Burnley	21 May 2017	Burnley	1-2	West Ham United	Stephen Ward Jeff Hendrick Kevin Long Robbie Brady
Stoke City	21 May 2017	Southampton	0-1	Stoke City	Glenn Whelan
West Bromwich Albion	21 May 2017	Swansea	2-1	West Bromwich Albion	Marc Wilson