Cherry Orchard F.C.

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Cherry Orchard Football Club is a Football club in Ireland. It began in 1957 as a team out of Dublin which catered to adults. However, in 1970 it entered schoolboy football and has gone on to become one of the leading developers of talent within Ireland. Several of their players have gone on to represent Ireland at Senior International level. These include Dave Langan, Gareth Farrelly,Alan Lee, Andy Reid, David Savage footballer, Alan Quinn & Wayne Henderson. While Graham Coughlan has yet to get senior international caps, he is also notable as he moved to professional football from the senior (adult) Cherry Orchard teams, first joining Bray Wanderers and then moving to Blackburn Rovers.

Cherry Orchard currently have schoolboy teams in the Dublin & District Schoolboy League and senior (adult) teams in the Leinster Senior League

Their principle home ground is Le Fanu Park (known locally as The Lawns) in Ballyfermot.