Conor Pepper


Conor Pepper is an Irish professional association football player, who plays as a midfielder or full-back for Linfield.

Career

Born in Dublin, Pepper played youth football with Portmarnock AFC and Cherry Orchard AFC. He played for St. Patrick's Athletic Under 19s and also made one first team appearance in the Leinster Senior Cup in a Dublin derby away to Shamrock Rovers, before signing for Scottish Premier League club Inverness Caledonian Thistle in July 2012.
He made his first competitive appearance for Inverness on 18 August 2012. During this appearance he scored a late equalising goal in a 2–2 draw against Hearts at Tynecastle. He made an assist in his second match, a 4–2 loss against Celtic. Then scored his second goal for the club in his first start away at Hibernian.
Pepper has represented the Republic of Ireland at youth international levels.
Despite a promising first campaign with Inverness with Terry Butcher, Pepper failed to figure during his second season and was subsequently released by the club in May 2014 by manager John Hughes.
However, Pepper stayed in Scottish football by signing for Greenock Morton. He agreed a new deal with Morton in May 2016. Pepper was part of the team that won the Scottish league One title in his first season at Greenock Morton. Pepper featured in every game up of his second campaign until February 2016 when suffered a knee injury and didn't feature again for the first-team. After 3 seasons with Morton, Pepper left the club in May 2017 at the end of his contract.
After spending a year without playing first-team football, still recovering from injury, Pepper moved to Belfast to sign for NIFL Premiership side Glentoran where he was a starter for most of the 2018-19 season.

Honours

Morton
Linfield
2020, Signing for the current NIFL Champions *

Career statistics

Professional appearances – correct as of 10 March 2020.