He was part of the Laois Under 21 side that won the Leinster title in 1998 and was unfortunate to lose out on a Leinster Minor Football Championship medal in 1995 when it took three games to separate the O'Moore County and eventual All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winners Westmeath.
Fitzgerald won Laois Senior Football Championship medals with Portlaoise in 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2011.
Fitzgerald retired from the game in 2006 at the young age of 29 in order to concentrate on his career as a dentist.
He briefly returned to club football with Portlaoise in 2011 winning a fourth Laois SFC medal that year.
Stephen Attride became the first Laois captain since Fitzgerald to raise a trophy aloft in the Hogan Stand of Croke Park when John Sugrue led Laois to the 2018 National Football League Division 4 title.