Ballyclare Comrades F.C.
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Full name | Ballyclare Comrades Football Club |
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Nickname(s) | Comrades | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | February, 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Dixon Park, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim |
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Capacity | 4000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chairman | Trevor McCann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manager | Jamesy Kirk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | Irish Second Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ballyclare Comrades is a Northern Ireland football club playing in the Irish Second Division. The club, founded in 1919, hails from Ballyclare, County Antrim and plays its home matches at Dixon Park. Club colours are red and white. The current manager is Jamesy Kirk.
In 2006, Ballyclare Comrades took part in a six week Irish Football Association sponsored coaching course for P5 pupils at Carnmoney Primary School, as part of Newtownabbey Borough Council's LEAN (Leisure, Education and Arts in Newtownabbey) Project.
[edit] Honours
- Ulster Cup: 1997/98
- Irish League 'B' Division: 1960/61, 1962/63, 1973/74, 1977/78, 1979/80, 1988/89
- IFA Intermediate Cup: 1925/26, 1949/50, 1950/51, 1953/54, 1959/60, 1960/61, 1962/63, 1989/90
- Steel & Sons Cup: 1943/44, 1960/61, 1974/75, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1986/87
- George Wilson Cup: 1956/57, 1961/62, 1963/64, 1993/94
- 'B' Division Knockout Cup: 1983/84, 1988/89