Albert Foundry Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club from Belfast playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. Its home ground Paisley Park on the West Circular Road. As well as the first team, there is a second team playing in the NAFL Division 3A and an under-18's team playing in the North Down Youth League.
Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in several areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".
Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland. It is the second-largest city on the island of Ireland, after Dublin. It had a population of 333,871 as of 2015.
The Northern Amateur Football League, also known as the Northern Amateur League and often simply as the Amateur League, is an association football league in Northern Ireland. It contains 13 divisions. These comprise four intermediate sections: the Premier Division, Division 1A, Division 1B and Division 1C; three junior sections: Division 2A, Division 2B and Division 2C; and six reserve sections.
The club was formed as Albert Foundry Colts and elected to the Amateur League in 1981. It soon changed its name to Mountainview Social Club, before becoming West Belfast Rangers in 1988. Another name change to 1st Shankill Northern Ireland Supporters' Club came in 1991, before finally settling on Albert Foundry in 1998.[1][2]
The Foundry name evokes a former club of the same name, which folded in 1978, having played in the Amateur League since its foundation in 1923, winning the championship in 1960-61.
The club finished runners up in the final of the 2015-2016 Steel and Sons Cup final vs Harland and Wolff Welders
PSNI Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Championship. The club is associated with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and its home ground is Newforge Lane in Belfast.
Malachy Martin "Mal" Donaghy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Luton Town and Manchester United.
George O'Boyle is a Northern Irish former professional footballer and is joint manager of NIFL Premier Intermediate League side Lisburn Distillery
Comber Recreation Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club based in Comber, playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club was founded in 1950 as Comber Youth Club. Its home ground is located at Parkway in Comber. The team is managed by Phil Mcdonagh. In addition to its first XI, Comber also fields two reserve teams and four youth teams. The 2nd XI currently play in the Amateur League Division 3A while the 3rd XI are in the 3rd Division of the Newcastle and District Football League having joined it in the season 2015/16. At the end of their first season, they gained promotion to Division 2. In 2005, Comber's youth teams started playing in the East Antrim Youth League and then in 2012 the under-14 team moved to the lisburn youth league while the under-15 and 17 teams moved to the South Belfast Youth League.
Islandmagee Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club from Islandmagee, County Antrim, and playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club plays at Wilbourne Park, Islandmagee. The home strip is red shirts, blue shorts, red socks, while the away strip is royal blue shirts, navy shorts and socks.
Knockbreda Football Club is a Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Championship. They hail from Belfast and play their home matches at Breda Park, on the Upper Braniel Road located in the east of the city. The club was formed after the Second World War, c. 1948. and played in the Irish Churches' League before joining the Northern Amateur Football League in 1989. Intermediate status was achieved on promotion to Division 1B in 1997. In 2009, the club was admitted to the IFA Championship
Newington Football Club is an intermediate-level Northern Irish football club playing in NIFL Premier Intermediate League. The club originates in the Newington area of Belfast, although owing to the lack of facilities for junior and intermediate clubs in north Belfast they have played home matches at Muckamore Park in Antrim, Brantwood FC on Skegoneill Avenue, Richardson Park in Dunmurry and The Cliff in Larne. In 2008, the club became involved in a partnership with IFA Premiership club Crusaders, with a view to securing funding for a new, shared ground in north Belfast. As part of the arrangement, Newington used Crusaders’ current ground Seaview for home matches in 2008–09, marking a return to home matches in the club's native north Belfast. For the 2013–14 season, the club's first season in NIFL Championship 2, Seaview will be the home venue once again.
Nortel Football Club are a Northern Irish football club, based in Monkstown, Newtownabbey and playing latterly in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League (NAFL). The club withdrew from the league in 2016 but returned to Division 2C for the following season.
Crumlin United Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club is based in Crumlin, County Antrim, was founded in 1968 and played in the Lisburn League, Ballymena Premier League and Dunmurry League before joining the Amateur League in 1986. In 1990, intermediate status was achieved.
Watching and playing sports is an important part of culture in Belfast, Northern Ireland where almost six out of ten (59%) of the adult population regularly participate in one or more sports. Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports including football, rugby, traditional Irish Gaelic games, and North American sports such as American football and ice hockey. The Belfast Marathon is run annually on May Day, and attracted 14,300 participants in 2007.
Shankill United Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League. They play their home matches at the Hammer pitch on Agnes Street in the Shankill area of Belfast although for the 2012–13 season they relocated to the Inverary Park ground in the east of the city. The club was founded in 1971 as Harland & Wolff Rec., changing its name to Harland & Wolff Sports in 1984. In 2007, it adopted its present name.
Grove United Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club hails from north Belfast and began life as the 40thOld Boys, and was also known as Jennymount, changing its name in 1985. The club has enjoyed intermediate status since 1997. They are based at the Shore Road playing fields in the Greencastle suburb, a ground they share with Malachians.
Sirocco Works Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. Established in 1924, the club is the longest existing club in all the intermediate and junior divisions in Northern Ireland. The club currently play matches at Dixon Park in East Belfast. Darren Frame is the current first team manager, assisted by Lee Ashe & Leigh Cassidy. The club also fields a second team in Division 3A of the Amateur League as well as several youth teams.
Belfast Celtic Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the Ballymena & Provincial Intermediate League. The club hails from Belfast and plays its home games at Glen Road Heights, which is in the west of the city. It was founded as Sport & Leisure Swifts in 1978 and played in the County Down Premier League and the Dunmurry League, before joining the Northern Amateur League in 1990. The club in 2019 changed its name to Belfast Celtic.
Crewe United Football Club is an intermediate-level football club playing in the Intermediate A division of the Mid-Ulster Football League in Northern Ireland. The club hails from Glenavy in County Antrim. The club was formed as Sparta in 1961 and played in the West Belfast League before joining the Northern Amateur League in 1968. In 1971, the club switched to the Lisburn League, and during its time there it change its name to Crewe United. In 1978, Crewe returned to the Amateur League, and gained intermediate status following a Junior Cup win in 1983.
Immaculata Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Ireland association football club based in west Belfast and playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club plays in sky blue and plays home games at Grosvenor Recreation Centre on the Grosvenor Road in West Belfast close to the Westlink. Immaculata FC is currently managed by Tony Heagney.
The 2013–14 Irish Cup was the 134th edition of the premier knock-out cup competition in Northern Irish football since its introduction in 1881. The competition began on 7 September 2013 with the first round and ended on 3 May 2014 with the final. The competition ran without a principal sponsor, but for the second successive season the final was known as the Marie Curie Irish Cup final, after the IFA once again awarded the naming rights for the final to the charity Marie Curie Cancer Care.
The Northern Ireland Football League, known historically, and still colloquially, as the Irish League, is the national football league of Northern Ireland. The Irish League was originally formed in 1890, with the league in its current format created in 2013 to assume independent collective management of the top three levels of the Northern Ireland football league system; namely the Premiership, Championship and Premier Intermediate League.
Aquinas Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club from Belfast playing in Division 1B of the Northern Amateur Football League. Its home ground is Rathmore Grammar School.
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