william billy woods born 24 october 1973 in cork is an irish former professional football player he is now the first team coach with cork citywoods played all his schoolboy football with midleton before spending two and a half years at coventry city he joined cork city in 1993 and made his debut in october playing under manager damien richardson during his first stint as manager when city played in bishopstownhe joined tranmere rovers in july 1995 1 after plying his trade there he returned to ireland and signed for portadown fc for one season in 1997woods signed for shamrock rovers in 1998 in time to make his debut away to altay sk in the uefa intertotocup on 21 june he made two appearances for the hoops in europea few weeks later he won a fai super cup medalin the 199900 season he was the clubs jointtop goalscorer and even appeared in goal on one occasion2 woods scored a very memorable goal in the fai cup quarter final replay in 2001 3 his last game for the club was against galway united on 31 march 2002after richardson left the club at the end of the 2002 season woods rejoined his hometown clubwoods won the league of ireland championship in november 2005 cork city beat derry city 20 on 18 november 2005 to secure the title in the last game of the season although woods did not play in that game he had been an integral part of the squad through the yearafter the departure of liam kearney to shelbourne in the 2006 season woods filled the gap left by kearney at left wingwoods scored cork citys winning goal in the uefa champions league qualifier in july 2006 against cypriot champions apollon limasoll 4 woods was a key player in citys run to the second qualifying round in which cork city were beaten by serbian and former european and world club champions red star belgrade 40 on aggregatewoods agreed to stay with cork city for another year in february 2007 once again he signed a parttime contract with the club so as to dovetail his job as car salesman with training and playing for cityin february 2008 he signed a new contract to remain at cork city but retired in october 20085in june 2010 billy returned to play for cork city he made 14 appearances for city that season and was appointed as first team coach in december 2010 he is currently doing the uefa b licence and will be enrolling on the course to do his a licence in the coming year6woods scored in the final qualifier for the 1992 uefa european under18 football championship against northern ireland in october 1991