# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-donnelly
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:24.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-donnelly"
name: "James Donnelly"
slug: "james-donnelly"
description: "James Elliot Donnelly was an Irish professional football player and manager. As a player, he played as a full back in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers, Accrington Stanley, Southend United, Brentford and Thames. After his retirement as a player, Donnelly became a manager and coach and as part of an FA coaching programme, he was sent abroad and managed Građanski Zagreb, Turkey and Amsterdamsche FC. He also held coaching roles at Thames, in Belgium and at AS Ambrosiana-Inter."
tagline: "Irish association football player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Donnelly%2C_Brentford_FC_footballer%2C_1926.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1899-12-18"
deathDate: "1959-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.73
  momentum:             0.5747126436781609
  historical:           5.673290666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donnelly"
    title: "James Donnelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس دونيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس دونيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donnelly"
    title: "James Donnelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donnelly_(footballer)"
    title: "James Donnelly (footballer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donnelly_(football)"
    title: "James Donnelly (football)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6132727"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump