Raheny United
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| Full name | Raheny United Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1994 | |
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St. Anne's Park, Raheny and Morton Stadium, Santry | |
| Capacity | 4,000 (800 seated) | |
| Chairman | Peter McGonigle | |
| League | AUL, AFL, DDSL, NDSL, Women's National League | |
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Raheny United (Irish: Cumann Peile Ráth Éanna Aontaithe) is an Irish football club, based in Dublin. Raheny United was founded in 1994 following an amalgamation between Raheny Boys and Dunseedy United. The club won two national championships in 2013 and 2014 and three national cups in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
History
We currently cater for four senior men teams, fifteen schoolboy/girl teams and 5 ladies/girls teams which makes us one of the largest junior soccer teams in Ireland. Our senior men teams compete in the AUL League whilst our over 35s team compete in the AFL. Our schoolboy/girls teams compete in both the DDSL and the NDSL Leagues. Our ladies teams compete in the Continental Tyres Women's National League, the Leinster Football League Major Division 1 and the DWSL.
The Club role of honour for the men's senior sides includes, winners of the Leinster Junior Shield, runners up in the Cullen Cup, winners of the AUL Div 3 Sun league and for our ladies sides, winners of the All Ireland cup, the Leinster cup, the Dublin cup, the FAI Women's Cup and the Women's National League. The schoolboy/girl sections have also won numerous leagues and cups.
On completion of a major undertaking in November 2003 we opened our new Clubhouse complete with six dressing rooms, referees room, showers for sixteen, a players lounge and function room which is available for hire. Raheny United's facilities are second to none in Junior Football. On the ground floor we have 6 top class dressing rooms, a referees room with its own shower and a shower room that caters for 16 people at any given time. Upstairs we have a Players Lounge which caters for 100 people and a Function Room that can cater for 150 people with full Bar facilities.
In August 2011 the FAI announced Raheny United as one of seven founding teams in a Women's National League.[1] In their first season (2011-2012) they finished second to Peamount United, but in the next two seasons (2012-2013 and 2013-2014) they won the championship with Peamount as runners-up.[2][3] They have also won the FAI Women's Cup for the past 3 years, in 2012, 2013 [4] and 2014 .[5] In their first UEFA Champions League campaign, they finished third in the qualifying group 2013/14. In 2014/15 they became the first Irish team to qualify from their group stage with a 100% record, having beaten Olimpia Cluj (Romania), NSA Sofia (Bulgaria) and Hibernians (Malta). They eventually lost to Bristol Academy in the last 32.
Titles
- Women's National League
- Champions: 2012/13, 2013/14
- Runners-up: 2011/12
- FAI Women's Cup
- Champions: 2012, 2013, 2014
- WNL League Cup
- Champions: 2015
References
- ↑ RTÉ Sport (2011-08-03). "FAI announce new Women's League". Retrieved 2011-08-06.
- ↑ "Raheny United claim Women's National League title (2012-2013)". rte.ie. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ↑ "Raheny United claim Women's National League title (2013-2014)". rte.ie. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ↑ "Raheny triumph in Women’s FAI Cup final report". irishtimes.com. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ↑ "Killeen grabs extra-time winner as Raheny win Cup". rte.ie. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.