Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 League titles, a record 13 FA Cups, 2 League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields, 1 League Centenary Trophy, 1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and 1 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club is a professional football club in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They currently play in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. The club is commonly known as West Bromwich or just West Brom.
Everton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Walton, Liverpool, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has competed in the top division for a record 116 seasons, missing the top division only four times since The Football League was created in 1888. The club has won the League Championship nine times, the FA Cup five times, and the UEFA Cup Winners Cup once.
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first team have competed in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football.
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system, having been relegated from the Championship in the 2018/19 season.
Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participates in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1862, they are the oldest professional association football club in the world, and predate The Football Association itself. The club became one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888. They are nicknamed the "Magpies" due to the black and white colour of their home strip, which inspired Italian club Juventus to adopt the colours for their kit in 1903. After playing at different home grounds during their first fifty years, including Trent Bridge, the club moved to Meadow Lane in 1910 and have remained there since. Notts County hold a local rivalry with city neighbours Nottingham Forest, as well as with other nearby clubs such as Mansfield Town.
Leyton Football Club was an English association football club based in Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The team withdrew from the Isthmian League Division One North in January 2011 and disbanded. The first team to go by the name was founded in 1868, and the last incarnation of the club, which began playing in 1997, won a High Court action in 2002 in support of its claim to be a continuation of the original team, making it at that stage the second oldest existing club in Greater London, after Cray Wanderers.
Milan Mandarić is a Serbian-American business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and association football clubs, including Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. He is currently the owner of Slovenian club NK Olimpija Ljubljana. He was born near Gospić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, on 5 September 1938, and grew up in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Oriel Park is a UEFA Category 2 football stadium located on the Carrickmacross Road in Dundalk, Ireland. The stadium is the home ground of Dundalk Football Club and is owned and operated by the club on land that has been leased from the Casey family since the mid 1930s.
James Christopher McLaughlin is a Northern Irish former footballer and was later a football manager in the League of Ireland.
Mick Lawlor is a former Irish football player who played as a forward.
Horsley Hill was a football and rugby league ground and greyhound racing track in South Shields.
The History of Dundalk Football Club (1966–present) covers the period from the takeover of the club as a public limited company in January 1966 to the end of the most recently completed season. It also includes short articles about some of the events and people that are an integral part of that period in the club's history.
Dundalk entered the 2018 season as the League Cup holders from 2017, having won that competition and finished as runners-up in both league and FAI Cup. In January the club was taken over by United States-based investors, who had identified the club's European progress as a commercial opportunity. 2018 would turn out to be Stephen Kenny's sixth and final season as manager. He resigned one month after the end of the season to accept the Republic of Ireland U-21 manager's role, and was replaced by his assistant, Vinny Perth for 2019. The 2018 season was Dundalk's 10th consecutive season in the top tier of Irish football, their 83rd in all, and their 92nd in the League of Ireland.
The 1979 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1978–79 FAI Cup, the national association football cup of the Republic of Ireland. The match took place on Sunday 22 April 1979 at Dalymount Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk, who had won the cup in 1977, and Waterford, who had not won the cup since their first victory in 1937. It was played after Dundalk had already been confirmed League of Ireland Premier Division Champions, and they were chasing their first League and Cup Double. Waterford had been defeated in their four previous appearances in the final, two of which had seen them miss out on League and Cup Doubles of their own, during a dominant period when they had won six league titles in eight seasons between 1964 and 1973.
The 1942 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1941–42 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the Football Association of Ireland. It took place on Sunday 26 April 1942 at Dalymount Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk and Cork United. Dundalk won 3–1 to win their first FAI Cup.
