Derek O'Connor

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Derek O'Connor
Personal information
Full name	Derek O'Connor
Date of birth	March 9, 1978 (1978-03-09) (age 30)
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1995 1995-1998	Crumlin United Huddersfield Town	?(?) 1(0)
National team2
1998	Ireland U-21
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 2, 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of April 2, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Derek O'Connor is an Irish professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.

He is most noted for playing for Huddersfield Town in a match against Nottingham Forest in 1997. The then manager of Town, Brian Horton, had mysteriously dropped first choice keeper Steve Francis, and put in O'Connor, who had only played 50 minutes of first-team football before the game. Town lost the match 2-0, Horton was sacked straight afterwards. After leaving Huddersfield, he then had a spell at non league Bradford Park Avenue.

He has also played for the Ireland U-21 team.