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Alan Kelly (born 9 April 1975) is a FIFA Referee from the Republic of Ireland. He officiates primarily in the League of Ireland and has been on the FIFA list since 2002. He has been regarded as Ireland’s top referee for the last number of years. In 2013, he joined the MLS as a referee. ==Career== Kelly took up refereeing in 1994 and joined the Cork Branch of the Irish Soccer Referees Society (ISRS). He refereed in local leagues including the Munster Senior League. He joined the League of Ireland Referees Panel in 1999 while participating in the first FAI Referee’s School of Excellence. Since then he has refereed at over 350 matches in the top flight of Irish football. In 2000 he was selected to referee the League of Ireland Cup Final between Derry City and Limerick City the first of 4 Senior Domestic Cup Finals he has been appointed to, to date. He refereed his first FAI Cup Final in 2003 when Longford Town beat St Patricks Athletic in Lansdowne Road and became one of only a few Irish referees to referee multiple FAI Cup Finals when he took charge of the game between Sporting Fingal and Sligo Rovers in 2009 at Tallaght Stadium. In 2011 he refereed the final of the Setanta Sports Cup in Tallaght Stadium between Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk. Kelly has been ranked as Ireland’s Number 1 referee for several years and was the inaugural winner of the Players Football Association of Ireland’s (PFAI) Referee of the Year Award in 2006. He has gone on to win the award on four further occasions since. His final appearance as a referee in the League of Ireland was on 25 October 2013, when his former club Cork City FC defeated St Patricks Athletic 4-2 in Turners Cross. It was also the final game of the 2013 League of Ireland season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Kelly (referee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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