Sandy Row F.C.

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Sandy Row
Full nameSandy Row Football Club
Founded2012
GroundBlanchflower Playing Fields
League Northern Amateur Football League

Sandy Row Football Club, simply referred to as Sandy Row, is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in Division 2C of the Northern Amateur Football League. [1] [2] The club is based in Sandy Row, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was formed in 2012. The club plays in the Irish Cup. Sandy Row are a part of the County Antrim FA. [3]

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Sandy Row play their home games at Blanchflower Playing Fields. They currently have 15 teams, ranging as young as Under-5s. The Sandy Row IIs play in the NAFL reserves league.

Colours and badge

The Sandy Row F.C. badge is based on Stoke City's badge, showing three diagonal red stripes. The club play in red.

History

Sandy Row Football Club was established in 2012, originally a non-league and youth development side, played South Belfast Youth League and Small Sided Games Development League. [4] [5] [6] Sandy Row then requested to join the NAFL.

In April 2021, the club put out a statement urging it's players, coaches and fans to remain calm and not get drawn in to what is know known as the 2021 Northern Ireland riots. [7] [8] [9] This followed multiple protests that resulted in violence, including bricks and petrol bombs thrown, and a bus being hijacked. [10] The Sandy Row Football Club said in their statement: "At Sandy Row FC we are firm believer's that politics should remain separate from football and sports in general." [11] [12]

In June 2021, St James' Swifts FC and Sandy Row FC arranged a series of friendlies in a joint-tournament to promote cross-community links following the 2021 riots. [13] [14]

In the 2023/24 season, the Under-13 girls won the Prestatyn Cup in Wales. [15]

In 2023, Jamie Bryson represented Sandy Row FC in an appeal to the Irish Football Association denying the club of joining the NAFL. The Irish Football Association Appeals Committee allowed Sandy Row FC's appeal, quashing the decision by the Northern Amateur Football League (NAFL) to deny the club's application for membership. The Committee found that the NAFL failed to properly follow its own policy for admitting new clubs, and directed the league to reconsider Sandy Row FC's application. [16]

Sandy Row FC was admitted into the NAFL in the 2023/24 season.

References

  1. ↑ "Northern Amateur Football League :: Sandy Row". www.thenafl.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  2. ↑ "fonaCAB Craig Stanfield Junior Cup | Second Round draw". IFA. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  3. ↑ "County Antrim & District Football Association". www.countyantrimfa.org. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  4. ↑ "Sandy Row II - Belfast And District Football League". www.teamstats.net. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  5. ↑ "South Antrim League round-up". NorthernIrelandWorld. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  6. ↑ "Junior Cup first round continues". IFA. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Young people in NI urge rioters 'not to throw life away'". BBC News. 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  8. ↑ Goulding, Stephen; McCroy, Amy (2022-01-27). "Propagandistic Atavism in Post-conflict Northern Ireland: On Riots As Discursive Events". Tripodos (51): 85–107. doi:10.51698/tripodos.2021.51p85-107. ISSN   2340-5007.
  9. ↑ Mitchell, David (2021-04-12). "Northern Ireland: the politics behind the riots". doi.org. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  10. ↑ Blackall, Molly (2021-04-03). "Northern Ireland's first minister joins calls for calm after Belfast riots". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  11. ↑ Fullerton, Gareth (2021-04-08). "South Belfast football club issues appeal amid civil unrest". Belfast Live. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  12. ↑ Fullerton, Gareth (2021-04-09). "Football clubs united in calls for calm amid Belfast riots". Belfast Live. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  13. ↑ Jackson, Michael. "St James' Swifts and Sandy Row build on strong cross-community links". Belfast Media Group. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  14. ↑ "West Belfast football club in a cross-community effort to end street violence". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. 2021-04-10. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  15. ↑ Belfast, Love (2024-06-13). "Sandy Row FC scores with Power NI donation". LoveBelfast. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  16. ↑ "Appeal: Sandy Row FC and Northern Amateur Football League". IFA. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
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