Warrenpoint Town F.C.

Warrenpoint Town

Full name	Warrenpoint Town Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Point
Founded	1987
Ground	Milltown, Warrenpoint
Ground Capacity	1,450 (100 seated)
Chairman	John Bird
League	NIFL Premiership
2014–15	11th
Home colours Away colours

Warrenpoint Town Football Club is a semi-professional Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Premiership. The club's home ground is Milltown, Warrenpoint.

History

The club was formed in 1987, and for the first 23 years of its existence played at regional league level. After being crowned champions of the Mid-Ulster Football League Intermediate A division in the 2009–10 season, the club was elected to Championship 2 for the first time by the Championship Committee. During their first season, they defeated Cliftonville 3–1 on penalties at Solitude in the fifth round of the 2010–11 Irish Cup - at the time, the biggest result in the club's history. It went on to become a very successful season for the club, as they adapted to the step-up to Championship 2 emphatically, winning the division by nine points and losing only one of the 30 games in the process. This secured their second consecutive promotion, elevating them to Championship 1, the second tier of Northern Irish football.

In their first season in Championship 1 they found the next step up more difficult to adapt to but still avoided relegation, finishing in 12th place - nine points clear of the relegation zone. At the start of the 2012–13 season the demise of Newry City allowed the club to inherit some of Newry's players - strengthening their squad substantially.^[1] They eventually finished as runners-up, and qualified for the promotion play-off against Donegal Celtic, who had finished second-bottom in the Premiership. Warrenpoint won the tie on the away goals rule after it ended 2–2 on aggregate, to reach the top flight for the first time in the club's history.^[2] This rounded off a very successful few years for the club, going from the Mid Ulster Football League Intermediate A division to the Premiership in only four seasons.

In their first season in the top flight, the club played their home fixtures at Dungannon Swifts' ground, Stangmore Park, until 30 November 2013 because their home ground did not meet Premiership criteria.^[3] During this period the ground was upgraded to top flight standard.

Honours

Intermediate honours

• IFA Championship 2 (level 3): 1
  • 2010–11
• Mid-Ulster Football League: 3
  • 2000–01, 2007–08, 2009–10

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Jonathan Parr 2 DF Darren King 3 DF Nathan Murphy 4 MF Mark Clarke 5 DF Dermot McVeigh 6 MF John McGuigan 7 MF Conor McDonald 8 MF Pádraig Smith 10 FW Stephen Hughes 11 FW Stephen Murray 14 FW Jordan Dane 15 MF Matthew Rooney 16 DF Liam Bagnall 17 MF Mark Hughes

No. Position Player 18 DF Stephen Moan 19 DF Roy Kierans 20 FW Shane Dolan 21 DF John Boyle 22 MF Ruairí Devlin 24 GK Martin Marron 25 MF Sean Donnelly 27 FW Johnny Breen 28 FW Darren Forsyth 30 GK Aaron Shanahan TBA MF Martin Murray (on loan from Cliftonville) TBA FW Tiarnan Mulvenna TBA FW Johnny McMurray

References

External links

• Official Club Website
• Daily Mirror Mid-Ulster Football League Official website
• nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)

Coordinates: 54°7′4.318″N 6°15′48.186″W / 54.11786611°N 6.26338500°W / 54.11786611; -6.26338500