East Belfast F.C.

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East Belfast
Full nameEast Belfast Football Club
Founded1929
GroundEast Park, Belfast
ManagerScott Harvey
League NAFL Premier Division
2023-24 NAFL Premier Division, 1st (champions)

East Belfast 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 East Belfast. Long-standing members of the Amateur League, they have been champions of that league ten times, also winning the league's two main knockout tournaments; the Clarence Cup (seven times) and the Border Regiment Cup (three times).

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