Evan Niland

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|name = Evan Niland

|irish = Eimhín Ó Nialláin

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|occupation = Student

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|7|10|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Clarinbridge,
County Galway, Ireland

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|sport = Hurling

|code = Hurling

|county = Galway

|province = Leinster

|club = Clarinbridge

|clyears = 2015-present

|clposition = corner forward

|clapps(points) = 60 (5-607)

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|colleges = University of Galway

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|colyears = 2017-present

|colapps(points) = 19 (1-224)

|counties = Galway

|icyears = 2019-present

|icposition = Full-forward

|icapps(points) = 24 (0-118)

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|nhl = 1

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|clupdate = 20:28, 06 December 2024

|icupdate = 21:42, 26 May 2024

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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.{{cite web|url=https://connachttribune.ie/63108-2-444/|title=Niland’s free bails Clarinbridge boys out of trouble|publisher=Connacht Tribune|date=12 November 2015|accessdate=13 January 2020|first=Alan|last=Dooley}} He usually lines out as a corner-forward.

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.the42.ie/athenry-gort-connacht-2615092-Feb2016/|title=Galway All-Ireland winner Niland hits 0-12 as Athenry win Connacht senior hurling title|publisher=The 42|date=20 February 2016|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=|last=}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/conor-cooney-on-song-as-st-thomas-outlast-clarinbridge-to-make-it-four-in-a-row-in-galway-41120291.html|title=Conor Cooney on song as St Thomas' outlast Clarinbridge to make it four in a row in Galway|publisher=Irish Independent|date=5 December 2021|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=Michael|last=Verney}} 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.{{cite web|url= http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/jeffrey-lynskeys-young-galway-confound-critics-352431.html|title=Jeffrey Lynskey's young Galway confound critics|date=7 September 2015|publisher=Irish Examiner|accessdate=8 September 2015}} He later won a Leinster U21 Championship.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/sean-bleahene-claims-leinster-title-as-galway-see-off-wexford-in-dramatic-extra-time-finish-37082167.html|title=Sean Bleahene claims Leinster title as Galway see off Wexford in dramatic extra time finish|publisher=Irish Independent|date=4 July 2018|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=John|last=Fallon}} Niland was drafted onto the Galway senior hurling team in 2019.

Career statistics

=Club=

rowspan="2"\|Team !rowspan="2"\|Year !colspan="2"\|Galway SHC
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Apps	Score
rowspan="10"\|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
colspan="2"\|Career total !60	5-607

=Inter-county=

rowspan="2"\|Team !rowspan="2"\|Year !colspan="3"\|National League !colspan="2"\|Leinster !colspan="2"\|All-Ireland !colspan="2"\|Total
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Division	Apps	Score	Apps	Score	Apps	Score	Apps	Score
rowspan="3"\|Galway Minor \|2015 \|colspan=3\|—	colspan=2\|—	4	0-31	4	0-31
2016 \|colspan=3\|—	colspan=2\|—	2	1-12	2	1-12
Total !colspan=3\|—	colspan=2\|—	6	1-43	6	1-43
rowspan="3"\|Galway U21 \|2017 \|colspan=3\|—	colspan=2\|—	1	0-01	1	0-01
2018 \|colspan=3\|—	3	2-22	1	0-06	4	2-28
Total !colspan=3\|—	3	2-22	2	0-07	5	2-29
rowspan="7"\|Galway \|2019 \|rowspan="1"\|Division 1B \|0	0-00	0	0-00	colspan=2\|—	0	0-00
2020 \|rowspan="4"\|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	4	0-03	2	0-00	9	1-10
2023 \|4	0-41	6	0-60	2	0-17	12	0-118
2024 \|rowspan="1"\|Division 1B \|4	0-40	5	0-32	0	0-00	9	0-72
colspan="2"\|Total !19	1-148	17	0-97	7	0-21	43	1-266
colspan="3"\|Career total !19	1-148	20	2-119	15	1-71	54	4-338