Seán Hoare (born 15 March 1994) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for League of Ireland Premier Division club St Patrick's Athletic.

[2] Hoare made his first team debut on 4 June 2013 in a 2–0 AET win over Longford Town in the Leinster Senior Cup Quarter-final at Richmond Park.

[4] Hoare also played in the Leinster Senior Cup Semi-final win away to Shelbourne[5] and also in the final at Richmond Park as Pats were runners up to Shamrock Rovers.

[8] After knocking UCC in the semi-final, Hoare's Maynooth side would face NUI Galway in the final at the UCD Bowl, which was broadcast live on Setanta Sports.

[11] On 28 March 2014, as Pats were away to Derry City, Ken Oman picked up a groin injury in the 29th minute and was replaced by Hoare who was making his League of Ireland debut.

After a poor 4–1 defeat at home to Dundalk, Derek Foran was replaced by Hoare for the away trip to Bray Wanderers[12] and his performance was praised by both sets of supporters and the media after the game.

On 30 May 2014, Hoare scored his first goal for Pats in a 5–2 win over Derry City at Richmond Park, when he headed a Killian Brennan freekick into the top right corner in the 48th minute.

[16] Hoare returned to the starting eleven three days later for the trip to Athlone Town and helped his side to a clean sheet as well as scoring the second goal to secure a 2–0 win.

[18] Hoare was a part of the starting eleven that wrote themselves into St Patrick's Athletic history by beating Derry City 2–0 to end the club's hoodoo by winning the FAI Cup for the first time in 53 years, on 2 November 2014 at the Aviva Stadium in front of a crowd of just over 17,000.

[26] He also featured in all four of the Saints' Europa League qualifiers, as they knocked out Jeunesse Esch of Luxembourg, before being narrowly beaten by Dinamo Minsk of Belarus.