Evan Niland
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| Born | 10 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Secondary School Teacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73m (5ft 8in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Corner-forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| * club appearances and scores correct as of 22:28, 06 December 2025. **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 21:42, 26 May 2026. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evan Niland (born 10 July 1998) is an Irish hurler who plays for Galway Senior Championship club Clarinbridge and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team.[1] He usually lines out as a corner-forward. His brother Aaron also plays for both teams.
Career
Niland first came to hurling prominence as a schoolboy with the Presentation College in Athenry, with whom he won three successive Connacht Colleges Championships.[2] He simultaneously lined out with the Clarinbridge club at juvenile and underage levels and was part of the senior team that lost the 2021 Galway SHC final to St Thomas's.[3] Niland first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Galway minor hurling team that beat Tipperary in the 2015 All-Ireland minor hurling final.[4] He later won a Leinster U21 Championship.[5] Niland was drafted onto the Galway senior hurling team in 2019.
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 6 December 2025.
| Team | Year | Galway SHC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | ||
| Clarinbridge | 2015 | 4 | 0-39 |
| 2016 | 5 | 1-44 | |
| 2017 | 9 | 0-70 | |
| 2018 | 7 | 0-76 | |
| 2019 | 6 | 1-58 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 0-32 | |
| 2021 | 7 | 0-75 | |
| 2022 | 8 | 0-87 | |
| 2023 | 5 | 1-54 | |
| 2024 | 6 | 2-72 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 1-43 | |
| Career total | 64 | 6-647 | |
Inter-county
- As of match played 26 May 2025.
| Team | Year | National League | Leinster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Galway Minor | 2015 | — | — | 4 | 0-31 | 4 | 0-31 | |||
| 2016 | — | — | 2 | 1-12 | 2 | 1-12 | ||||
| Total | — | — | 6 | 1-43 | 6 | 1-43 | ||||
| Galway U21 | 2017 | — | — | 1 | 0-01 | 1 | 0-01 | |||
| 2018 | — | 3 | 2-22 | 1 | 0-06 | 4 | 2-28 | |||
| Total | — | 3 | 2-22 | 2 | 0-07 | 5 | 2-29 | |||
| Galway | 2019 | Division 1B | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | — | 0 | 0-00 | |
| 2020 | Division 1A | 3 | 0-18 | 1 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-02 | 6 | 0-20 | |
| 2021 | 5 | 0-42 | 1 | 0-02 | 1 | 0-02 | 7 | 0-46 | ||
| 2022 | 3 | 1-07 | 5 | 1-03 | 2 | 0-02 | 10 | 2-12 | ||
| 2023 | 4 | 0-41 | 6 | 0-60 | 2 | 0-17 | 12 | 0-118 | ||
| 2024 | Division 1B | 5 | 0-40 | 5 | 0-32 | — | 10 | 0-72 | ||
| 2025 | 2 | 0-16 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-16 | ||
| 2026 | Division 1A | 1 | 0-01 | 2 | 0-06 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-07 | |
| Total | 23 | 1-165 | 20 | 1-104 | 7 | 0-21 | 50 | 2-290 | ||
| Career total | 23 | 1-165 | 23 | 3-126 | 15 | 1-71 | 61 | 5-362 | ||
Honours
- Presentation College, Athenry
- Connacht Colleges Senior Hurling Championship: 2014, 2015, 2016
- National University of Galway
- Fitzgibbon Cup Runners-up (2): 2022, 2023
- Clarinbridge
- Galway Minor A Hurling Championship: 2015, 2016
- Galway Under-21 A Hurling Championship: 2018
- Galway
Individual
- Fitzgibbon Cup All Star: 2019, 2022
- All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship Final Man of the Match: 2015
- Fitzgibbon CupTop Scorer 2019, 2022, 2023
References
- ↑ Dooley, Alan (12 November 2015). "Niland's free bails Clarinbridge boys out of trouble". Connacht Tribune. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ↑ "Galway All-Ireland winner Niland hits 0-12 as Athenry win Connacht senior hurling title". The 42. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ↑ Verney, Michael (5 December 2021). "Conor Cooney on song as St Thomas' outlast Clarinbridge to make it four in a row in Galway". Irish Independent. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ↑ "Jeffrey Lynskey's young Galway confound critics". Irish Examiner. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ↑ Fallon, John (4 July 2018). "Sean Bleahene claims Leinster title as Galway see off Wexford in dramatic extra time finish". Irish Independent. Retrieved 17 March 2022.