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| Dublin City |
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| Full name |
Dublin City Football Club |
| Nickname(s) |
Dubs and Vikings |
| Founded |
2001 |
| Ground |
Dalymount Park, Dublin |
| Capacity |
8,200 |
| Chairman |
Ronan Seery |
| Manager |
Dermot Keely |
| League |
N/A |
| 2005 |
2nd in First Division (Promoted) |
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Dublin City F.C. was an Irish football club playing in the Football League of Ireland. Until 2001 it was known as Home Farm Fingal and before that as Home Farm Everton (as English club Everton had a stake in the club) and before that as Home Farm F.C.
Home Farm is one of the biggest junior football clubs in Ireland and their senior team ,from 1970 up to the late 1990s, played in the League of Ireland. However, the link between Home Farm and the senior team was severed in the late 1990s. The senior side was briefly known as Home Farm Fingal in an effort to identify it with the north Dublin area. In 1999 Home Farm Fingal CEO Ronan Seery took over the club and renamed it "Dublin City". The club was based in Dublin and in 2006, its final year of operation, played its home matches at Dalymount Park. The last manager was Dermot Keely.
Their owner Ronan Seery spent a lot of money on players and managed to get the club promoted twice to the premier division, but the club failed to cultivate a significant fan-base. Galway United director Nial O'Reilly claimed to have seen "52 spectators at the match" when his club played away to Dublin City [1]. In addition to its small following, the club had no permanent home ground, playing at various times in Tolka Park, Dalymount Park, Morton Stadium, Richmond Park and Whitehall Stadium. As of July 19, 2006, eight months after again winning promotion to the Premier Division with a 3-2 aggregate play-off victory over Shamrock Rovers, Dublin City FC ceased trading and resigned from the Eircom League, and the results of all their games to that point in the season have been expunged from the record.
Ronan Seery issued a statement saying, "Due to ongoing difficulties, our continued existence within the eircom League simply became untenable and while extremely difficult to make, it is the most prudent and honourable decision and course of action to take"[2]. However, the club was heavily criticised by Damien Richardson for failing to complete their league fixtures [3]. Roddy Collins, whose feud with Ronan Seery dates back to a tempestuous and unsuccessful stint at the club in 2004 [4], called the club's actions "disgraceful" [5].
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