Wakehurst F.C.
Wakehurst| Full name |
Wakehurst Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) |
The Magpies |
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| Founded |
1969 |
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| Ground |
Mill Meadow
Castledawson |
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| Chairman |
Billy Erwin |
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| Manager |
Ian Gregg |
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| League |
NIFL Championship 2 |
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| 2013–14 |
13th |
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Wakehurst is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in NIFL Championship 2. The club, founded in 1969, hails from Ballymena, although home matches are played at Moyola Park's ground at Mill Meadow. Wakehurst formerly played at the second pitch at the Ballymena Showgrounds, home of Ballymena United, but for 2009/10 this pitch was deemed not to meet the criteria for the Championship, and home games were played at the ground of Tobermore United in Tobermore, County Londonderry, for that season; Wakehurst moved to Castledawson for 2010/11.[1][2] It is the club's intention eventually to return to Ballymena.[3]
Club colours are black, and white (home) and red and white (away). The current manager is Ian Gregg. The current captain is Douglas Stevenson.
The club played at junior level in the Ballymena & District League and Northern Amateur League until stepping up to intermediate football in 2003.[4][5]
Honours
Junior honours
- County Antrim Junior Shield: 1
References
- ↑ Ballymena Times, Wakehurst forced to play outside Ballymena next season, 15-05-2009
- ↑ Homeless Wakehurst need to find a speedy resolution, The Park, p.13, Belfast Telegraph, 30 August 2010
- ↑ Wakehurst FC appeal for Council help to end three-year ‘exile’ from Ballymena
- ↑ H. Johnstone & G. Hamilton (n.d.) A Memorable Milestone: 75 Years of the Northern Amateur Football League, p. 219
- ↑ "Waking up to Wakehurst", NI Football, Issue 13 (2009), p. 24
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