At club level he played with Cashel King Cormacs and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
[1][2] Fitzelle first appeared on the inter-county scene during a two-year stint with the Tipperary minor team.
He progressed onto the Tipperary under-21 team and lined out in the 1978 All-Ireland final defeat by Galway.
By this stage Fitzelle had already been drafted onto the Tipperary senior hurling team.
He spent more than a decade with the team and won a Munster Championship title in 1987.