Home Farm F.C.
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| Full name | Home Farm Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Whitehall Stadium, Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| League | Irish Leinster Senior League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Home Farm Football Club is an amateur football club based in Whitehall, Dublin, in Ireland.
Home Farm is one of Ireland's best known and most respected underage football clubs. At schoolboy level its teams have consistently been among the best in the country and have produced many players who have gone on to play professional football both in Ireland and in England. Well known former Home Farm players include past and present Irish Internationals such as Liam Whelan, Ronnie Whelan, Gary Kelly, his nephew Ian Harte, Graham Kavanagh and Gareth Farrelly amongst others. Home Farm's youth system is supervised by veteran coach and former player Liam Touhy. Westlife member Nicky Byrne, also played for Home Farm as a boy.
From 1970 up until 1999, Home Farm also fielded a team in the League of Ireland, Ireland's senior football competition. However the club was never well supported and relied on fielding players brought through its youth system. From 1970 until 1989, Home Farm played in Tolka Park, before relocating their senior team to Whitehall, where the club's other teams were based. Their greatest triumph was winning the FAI Cup in 1975, when they beat Shelbourne F.C. 1-0 in the final at Dalymount Park. The following season they competed in the European Cup Winners Cup, playing against French side, RC Lens. They drew 1-1 at home but lost the away leg 6-0.
Home Farm briefly became known as "Home Farm Everton" in 1996–1997, in an experimental link up with English team Everton F.C.. The affiliation was discontinued after a single season. In 1999, Home Farm's League of Ireland team was taken over by Ronan Seery and changed its name to "Home Farm Fingal", severing ties with the rest of the club. This team later changed its name to Dublin City FC, before going out of business in 2006.
Home Farm's senior team now plays in the amateur Leinster Senior League. Their schoolboy teams compete in the Dublin and District Schoolboy's League as well as competing in the Milk Cup underage competition in Northern Ireland.
[edit] Honours
FAI Cup Winners: 1
- 1975
