David Meyler lands Hull City under-18s assistant manager role

2014: David Meyler of Hull City celebrates scoring their fifth goal during the FA Cup semi-final. Picture: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

Cork's David Meyler has been appointed Hull City's under-18s assistant manager for the 2024/25 season.

Former Cork City, Sunderland, Hull, Reading and Coventry City midfielder Meyler will assist under-18s boss Chad Gribble for the upcoming Professional Development League campaign.

Meyler - capped 26 times by Ireland between 2012 and 2018 - first joined the Hull City academy as a casual under-15s coach in March 2023.

The 35-year-old scored 19 goals in 191 appearances during a six-year playing spell at the Tigers before retiring in 2019.

“Towards the back end of the season, I had the opportunity to work alongside Chad and now to have the role permanently is brilliant. It is a great place for me to learn and it is a great environment to be in,” said Meyler upon his appointment.

“From doing work with the under-15s and under-16s last season, I felt I had a really positive impact on the young boys who stepped up with the under-18s and have now agreed scholarships.

“The goal for us is to help young kids develop to become better people and better footballers, and we want to push them on to the first team at the time they are ready, but if we can help them day in, day out, then fingers crossed we can get through as many as we can."

Meyler continued: “A lot of people know what the club means to me. I had an incredible playing career and now that I am starting on the coaching career, I am delighted to be here. It is a fantastic group of coaches. Looking at the academy manager Richard Naylor to head of coaching Matt Hare, there is great knowledge and wisdom of coaching that will help me develop as a coach and as a person.

“If you also look at the under-21s, you have Conor Sellars and Billy Clarke, who are both brilliant coaches and in the under-18s, Chad is someone I’m really looking forward to working with. I will be spending a lot of time with him and it is just great to learn.

“After my playing career, coaching was next for me and to be at a club that has done so much for me, if I can help some of these young boys kick on and make it to the first team, then fingers crossed I can do that.”