Rathcoole F.C.

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Rathcoole
Full nameRathcoole Football Club
Founded2012
League Ballymena & Provincial Football League First Division
2015–16 Ballymena & Provincial Football League Premier Division, 9th

Rathcoole Football Club are a junior-level football club playing in the first division of the Ballymena & Provincial League in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 2012. [1] The club is based in Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, playing their home games at the Diamond, a two pitch facility that they share with Rathfern Rangers. They gained intermediate status in 2013 [2] and competed in the Irish Cup for the first time in 2015–16, reaching the second round. [3] However the club returned to the junior ranks for the 2016-17 season by dropping down a division. Rathcoole then folded in July 2017 and rebuilt the team and registered themselves again for the 2017-2018 season. [4]

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