| Evan Niland | |
| Irish: | Eimhín Ó Nialláin |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Clarinbridge, County Galway, Ireland |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Galway |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Clarinbridge |
| Clyears: | 2015-present |
| Clposition: | corner forward |
| Clapps(Points): | 54 (3-535) |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | University of Galway |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Colyears: | 2017-present |
| Colapps(Points): | 19 (1-224) |
| Counties: | Galway |
| Icyears: | 2019-present |
| Icposition: | Full-forward |
| Icapps(Points): | 24 (0-118) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Clupdate: | 22:28, 06 December 2023 |
| Icupdate: | 21:42, 26 May 2024 |
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.
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.
| 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 | ||
| Career total | 54 | 3-535 | ||
| 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 | 4 | 0-03 | 2 | 0-00 | 9 | 1-10 | |||
| 2023 | 4 | 0-41 | 6 | 0-60 | 2 | 0-17 | 12 | 0-118 | |||
| 2024 | Division 1B | 4 | 0-40 | 5 | 0-32 | 0 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-72 | ||
| Total | 19 | 1-148 | 17 | 0-97 | 7 | 0-21 | 43 | 1-266 | |||
| Career total | 19 | 1-148 | 20 | 2-119 | 15 | 1-71 | 54 | 4-338 | |||
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