Larne F.C.

Larne

Full name	Larne Football Club
Nickname(s)	"The Larne"
Founded	1889
Ground	Inver Park, Larne County Antrim
Chairman	Archie Smith
Manager	Tiernan Lynch
League	NIFL Championship
2016–17	9th
Home colours Away colours

Larne Football Club is a professional^[1], Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Championship. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Larne and plays its home matches at Inver Park. Club colours are red and white. The current manager is Tiernan Lynch who was appointed to replace David McAlinden first team manager in 2017. From 1972 until 2008, the club enjoyed senior status, but reverted to intermediate status when it failed to gain a place in the new IFA Premiership.

They also support a ladies' team, whose colours are red, white and black. Formed by a small committee of parents and friends of the Larne Colts in November 2004, they made history by being the first ladies' team to play at Windsor Park as part of the half-time entertainment during the Irish Cup final in May 2005. The ladies also have a junior team for ages 8–14. The ladies' team has since pulled away from the men's side of the club.

The club holds the unwanted record of appearing in five finals of the Irish Cup and two finals of the Irish League Cup without ever winning either trophy. They have been runners-up of the Irish Cup on five occasions (1927–28, 1934–35, 1986–87, 1988–89 and 2004–05) and runners-up of the Irish League Cup twice (1991–92 and 2003–04). This makes it a combined seven major domestic cup finals without ever winning either competition - a record in Northern Irish football.^[2][3] The clubs greatest rival is Carrick Rangers,their matches are known as "The East Antrim Derby".

Honours

Senior honours

• Irish Cup: 2
  • 1951–52, 1987–88

Intermediate honours

• Irish League B Division: 10
  • 1954–55, 1956–57, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72
• Irish Intermediate Cup: 3
  • 1942–43†, 1958–59, 1969–70
• George Wilson Cup: 6
  • 1958–59, 1959–60, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1977–78†, 1978–79†
• Steel & Sons Cup: 11
  • 1909–10, 1941–42†, 1942–43†, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72
• Louis Moore Cup: 2
  • 1956–57 (shared with Banbridge Town), 1958–59

Junior honours

• Irish Junior Cup: 1
  • 1900–01

† Won by Larne Olympic (reserve team)

Players

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

No. Position Player GK Stephen McConnell GK Ryan Fleming DF Nordine Guendouze DF Moral N'Guessan DF David Abe DF Joseph Fornah DF Owen McKeown DF Tarek Arafa DF Dave Tumama DF Sandy McDermott DF Daniel Reynolds

No. Position Player MF Dammy Awosanya MF Jack McLaren MF Jason Breslin MF Michael Tolan DF Jonathan Wilson MF Samy Sahali FW Matthew Henry FW Dickson Chisanga FW Aidan Smith FW Chris Fromanger

Footnotes

^ BBC (4 May 2007). "Larne celebrate league reprieve". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 January 2010. 

External links

• Larne FC Website

References