Full name | Mid-Ulster Ladies Football Club |
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Short name | Mid-Ulster Ladies |
Founded | 2000 |
Ground | Mid Ulster Sports Arena, Cookstown |
League | Women's Premiership |
2023 | 9th (of 10) |
Website | Club website |
Mid-Ulster Ladies Football Club is a women's association football club based in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 2000 and currently plays in the Women's Premiership [1] and at the Mid Ulster Sports Arena. [2]
Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. came about after a number of players were moving away from Cookstown to nearby Dungannon Athletic Ladies to play football despite Dungannon Athletic using Cookstown for training. Future Northern Ireland Women's Football Association chairwoman Elaine Junk, who was playing for Dungannon Athletic in 2000 decided to found Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. as a way for Cookstown ladies to play football locally in their hometown. [1] By 2002, they had made their way up to NIWFA Division 2. [3] Following a reorganisation of women's football in Northern Ireland, in 2004 Mid-Ulster Ladies were placed into the Mid Ulster League. [4] In 2005, they were promoted into the national League below the Women's Premier League. [5]
In 2008, Mid-Ulster Ladies were promoted into the Women's Premier League. [6] In 2013 Mid-Ulster Ladies finished in the promotion-relegation playoff place, where they would compete against NIWFA Division 2 runner-up Cliftonville Ladies however they managed to win and retain their Women's Premier League status before making the final of the Premier Cup, where they were defeated 2-0 by Glentoran Belfast United. [7] In 2015 they also took part in the promotion-relegation playoff against Lisburn Distillery Ladies. Mid-Ulster Ladies retained their Women's Premier League place again by winning 8-3 on aggregate. [8]
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Cookstown is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 12,546 in the 2021 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.
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