Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
20??– | Cill Chartha | ||
Club titles | |||
Donegal titles | 1 | ||
Colleges(s) | |||
Years | College | ||
IT Sligo | |||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2020– | Donegal | ||
Ulster titles | 1 |
Andrew McClean is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Cill Chartha and the Donegal county team.
With his club Cill Chartha, McClean won the 2012 Donegal Minor Football Championship.[1]
McClean won the 2017 Donegal Senior Football Championship. It was the first time his club had won the title in 24 years.[2]
He was man of the match in his club's 2019 Donegal Senior Football Championship quarter-final win, scoring a goal and a point from a defensive position.[3] The game was televised live on RTÉ Television.[4]
McClean played Sigerson Cup football for IT Sligo.[5] He received a sports scholarship for the 2020–21 academic year.[6]
McClean started the 2014 Ulster Minor Football Championship final; however he did not feature in the final of the 2014 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship.[7][8]
First featuring for his county at senior level under the management of Declan Bonner, McClean was called into the team ahead of the 2020 season.[9][10] He made a substitute appearance in Donegal's first fixture of the 2020 National Football League against Mayo, during which he scored a point.[11] Further substitute appearances followed in the games against Meath and Galway.[12][13] He did not feature against Dublin.[14] In the next game, against Monaghan, McClean made another substitute appearance.[15] Then the COVID-19 pandemic brought play to a halt. Play resumed behind closed doors on 18 October with a home game against Tyrone; McClean made a substitute appearance in that game and scored a point.[16] He made his first league start in the last game of the campaign, away to Kerry.[17]
McClean made his first championship start against Tyrone in the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final.[18] He also appeared as a substitute in the semi-final victory against Armagh and the final against Cavan, in what proved to be the season's concluding game for his team.[19][20]
Of Donegal's four fixtures of the 2021 National Football League, against Tyrone, Monaghan, Armagh and Dublin respectively, McClean made a substitute appearance only in the first, against Tyrone.[21][22][23][24] He was not part of the panel for the 2022 season.[25]