Carrick Rangers F.C.

Carrick Rangers is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1939, hails from Carrickfergus County Antrim and plays its home matches at Taylors Avenue. Club colours are amber and black. The current caretaker manager is Michael Hughes after the sacking of Stephen Small on 13 December 2011.

Carrick Rangers have two bitter rivals, Larne and Ballyclare Comrades.

From 1983 until 2003, the club enjoyed senior status, but reverted to intermediate status when the Irish Premier League was established and the number of senior clubs was reduced from 20 to 16. The club's greatest achievement was winning the Irish Cup in 1976, when, as a B Division team they beat Linfield in the final in one of the greatest cup shocks. Having qualified for the following season's European Cup Winners Cup the club very creditably reached the last 16 before going out 9–3 on aggregate to English club Southampton.

On 2 May 2011, the club secured a return to top flight football for the first time since the 1994–95 season, after being crowned champions of the 2010–11 IFA Championship 1.

Current squad

As of 9 June 2011.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Honours

Senior honours

• Irish Cup: 1
  • 1975–76
• County Antrim Shield: 1
  • 1992–93

Intermediate honours

• Irish League B Division/IFA Championship 1: 7
  • 1961–62, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1982–83, 2010–11
• Irish Intermediate Cup: 3
  • 1975–76, 1976–77, 2010–11
• Daily Mirror Trophy: 1
  • 2003–04
• Steel & Sons Cup: 2
  • 1961–62, 1967–68
• Louis Moore Cup: 2
  • 1963–64, 1969–70
• Northern Amateur Football League: 2
  • 1948–49, 1951–52

Junior honours

• Minor League: 1
  • 1941–42
• County Antrim Junior Shield: 1
  • 1941–42

References

External links

• Carrick Rangers FC Website