Dundalk F.C.

Association football club in Ireland

football club
Dundalk Football Club ( dun-DAW(L)K ; irish : Cumann Peile Dhún Dealgan ) is a professional association football club in Dundalk, Ireland. Dundalk compete in the League of Ireland Premier Division —the top tier of football in the Republic of Ireland —and are the highest-ranked irish side in european football as measured by UEFA baseball club coefficients. They are the moment most successful cabaret in the League ‘s history ( with 14 league titles and 12 FAI Cups ), and the most successful in the Premier Division era.

The club was founded in 1903 as Dundalk G.N.R.—the works-team of the Great Northern Railway. They played in junior competitions until 1922–23 when they joined the Leinster Senior League. After four seasons in that division, they were elected to the League of Ireland for 1926–27. They became the first club from outside Dublin to win the league championship in 1932–33 and they won the FAI Cup for the first time in 1941–42. They won their most recent league style in 2019 and their most recent FAI Cup in 2020. Dundalk made their european debut in the 1963–64 european Cup as League Champions and became the foremost irish side to win an away match in Europe that season. Their best performance in the european Cup came when they reached the last 16 in 1979–80. They besides reached the last 16 in the 1981–82 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup. They have qualified doubly for the Europa League group degree and became the first team from Ireland to both succeed points and win a couple at that level of european competition in 2016–17. The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League was their twenty-fifth european campaign. The club adopted its crest and white play shirts in 1927. The crown is based on the town ‘s old corporation seal. The current team semblance of white shirts and black shorts were introduced in 1940. They moved to their salute family ground, Oriel Park, in 1936, having by and large played at the Athletic Grounds in the township center before that .

history [edit ]

Dundalk G.N.R. ( 1903–1930 ) [edit ]

Dundalk Democrat, 26 September 1903 constitution of Dundalk G.N.R. Association Club reported by, 26 September 1903 The Dundalk Great Northern Railway ( G.N.R. ) football Club was established during the 1883–84 season as a rugby football club. [ 4 ] They played their final rugby match in February 1903, and in September 1903 the cabaret switched codes to association football, [ 5 ] setting in motion their travel to become the contemporary Dundalk F.C. The raw club, known locally as “ the Railwaymen ”, adopted the Dundalk Athletic Grounds ( a facility near the town concentrate shared by several sporting codes ) as its home ground. They played challenge matches at first, then became fall through members of the first Dundalk and District League ( DDL ), formed in 1906. There are no records of the baseball club being active between 1907–08 and 1912–13, but they re-joined the local league in 1913–14 for what was the final season before the outbreak of World War I. The DDL was dormant during the war, but the G.N.R. cabaret entered both the Irish Junior Cup and Leinster Junior Cup competitions of 1913–14, 1914–15, and 1916–17. [ 8 ] After exiting the irish Junior Cup in January 1917, the golf club appears to have been inactive again for the follow two seasons. It re-formed for 1919–20, affiliated with the Leinster Football Association, and joined both the revived DDL, [ 9 ] and the Newry and District League. G.N.R. spent three seasons in the DDL, winning it doubly, and besides qualified to represent the zone in both Junior Cup competitions each season. [ 11 ] They reached their first knock-out contest final examination in 1920, the Leinster Junior Cup final, which they lost to Avonmore after two replays. [ 12 ] Looking to progress, they were elected to the Leinster Senior League for 1922–23 to replace sides that had been promoted to the nascent free State League. [ 13 ] They played four seasons in that division, before being elected to the Free State League on 15 June 1926 to replace Dublin club Pioneers as the home league looked to spread to the provinces. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 21 August 1926 they travelled to Cork to face Fordsons for their league debut, [ 16 ] finally finishing eighth in the 1926–27 season. By this degree, the team represented the G.N.R. works in list only and the cabaret ‘s management committee decided to make it independent of the company. New color of white shirts and blue shorts with a peak of the township ‘s coat of arms were adopted in December 1927. [ 17 ] They contested their foremost final as a senior club in April 1929, the Leinster Senior Cup final, which they lost after a replay. It was the last clock time that the cabaret was billed to appear as ‘Dundalk G.N.R. ‘, [ 18 ] and the diagnose of the club was formally changed to ‘Dundalk A.F.C. ‘ in the summer of 1930. [ 19 ]

The works teams [edit ]

When Dundalk G.N.R. joined the League of Ireland in 1926, it was one of four works-teams in the 10-team league—the others being Jacobs, St. James ‘s Gate and Fordsons. Another railroad track works-team— Midland Athletic of the Midland Great Western Railway —had competed for two seasons but resigned when the company went through a amalgamation. [ 20 ] By 1944–45 only Dundalk remained. Another cabaret, Transport ( sponsored by CIÉ ), joined in 1948–49, but they failed to be re-elected for 1962–63, leaving Dundalk again as the only survive club with works-team roots. The work themselves became Dundalk Engineering Works Ltd, with the death of the G.N.R. ( I ) company in 1958. [ 21 ]

First successes ( 1930–1949 ) [edit ]

With a modern director, Steve Wright, “ doing everything except selling the programmes ”, [ 22 ] Dundalk finished as runner-up in both the League and the FAI Cup in 1930–31. proof that they could compete at a national floor gave the management committee confidence to press ahead, and the club was converted to a membership-based express company— “ Dundalk A.F.C. Limited ” —on 25 January 1932. [ 23 ] They became the foremost team from away of Dublin to win a league style in 1932–33, sealing the title in Dalymount Park with their first gear victory over Bohemians. [ 25 ] The title win meant that they had become the first team from away Dublin or Belfast to win a league claim in Ireland since the origin of the original Irish League in 1890. Hoping to improve gate receipts and gross, the golf club ‘s management committee decided to move from the Athletic Grounds to a footing of their own in 1936. They secured farming on the Carrick Road owned by P.J. Casey ( a early committee extremity ), and named it ‘ Oriel Park ‘. [ 26 ] After winning the league title, they were runner-up eight times across the five main competitions ( League, Shield, FAI Cup, Dublin City Cup and Leinster Senior Cup ), before winning the 1937–38 City Cup—their first cup final examination victory. [ 27 ] They then won their first base FAI Cup—in their fourth appearance in the final—with victory over Cork United in Dalymount Park in 1942. [ 28 ] Five weeks late, they won the inaugural address Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup to become ( unofficially ) ‘Champions of All Ireland ‘. [ 29 ] The postdate September, in the new season, the City Cup was won for a moment clock. [ 30 ] During the mid-1940s the management committee relied on player sales to English clubs to bankroll the cabaret, as gate receipts alone did not meet its running costs. After missing out in both the League and the City Cup by a detail in 1947–48, the committee decided to invest the excess from its remove dealings on a player-coach, Ned Weir, and a count of professional players from Scotland, in an attack to attract larger attendances and win the trophies that had been beyond reach. [ 31 ] The investing paid off when the City Cup was won for a third base prison term at the startle of the newly season by topping its fresh league format unbeaten ; [ 32 ] while the club ‘s second FAI Cup was won with victory over Shelbourne in the 1949 final. [ 33 ] But the new team fell inadequate in both the Shield and the League, and, despite the cup double and improved gate receipts, the extra income was not adequate to cover the increase in costs. [ 34 ]

Struggles and recovery ( 1950–1964 ) [edit ]

The undertake to maintain a full-time squad had n’t paid off and the 1949 cup-winning team was broken up. A excess from transfer dealings prevented a more good fiscal crisis arise, [ 35 ] and, despite the upset in players, Dundalk finally won the Leinster Senior Cup for the beginning clock time in 1950–51 ( after five previous defeats in the final examination ) with victory over St. Patrick ‘s Athletic. [ 36 ] But the cutbacks started to have an shock, and they finished moment from bottom in the league table the following season. They went on a memorable FAI Cup carry, however, coming from 3–1 down against Waterford in a semi-final replay to win 6–4 in extra time ; [ 37 ] then defeated Cork Athletic in the 1952 FAI Cup Final ( besides in a replay ), to win the Cup for a third meter. [ 38 ] Midway through the 1952–53 season, Club Secretary Sam Prole left to take over at Drumcondra. [ 39 ] Prole, a Great Northern Railway employee, had played for Dundalk G.N.R. in junior football, and had been Secretary for 25 years. He had been responsible for the club ‘s transfer activities, and player sales tailed off after his passing. The subsequent drop in income obliged the club to focus on controlling costs, [ 41 ] and they finished last in the two seasons after he left. They continued to struggle for the rest of the decade, but, in line to their league form, they won their fourthly FAI Cup with a 1–0 victory over Shamrock Rovers in the 1958 final examination. [ 42 ] Having not challenged for the League or Shield during the 1950s, they ended the ten at the top of the league board. [ 43 ] Although they subsequently fell unretentive of winning the title, it led to optimism that the lean years were coming to an end. A second Leinster Senior Cup was won in 1960–61, [ 44 ] and a first league championship in 30 years followed in 1962–63. [ 45 ] That success meant that they entered european competition for the first fourth dimension, where they became the first irish side to win an away stage of a european affiliation, beating FC Zurich, 2–1, ( in a 4–2 aggregate kill ) in the 1963–64 european Cup. [ 46 ] Dundalk could n’t manage to retain the title that season, finishing as runner-up, and they were besides runner-up in the Shield. But they did win the season-end Top Four Cup for the first time. [ 47 ]

takeover, raise and fall ( 1964–1974 ) [edit ]

A hapless 1964–65 followed and the clubhouse ‘s management committee decided that it was time to hire a modern-style director, with sole duty for recruitment and actor selection, for the beginning meter. They appointed Gerry Doyle, who had been associated with Shelbourne for most of his career as a player and a coach. [ 48 ] The fresh season saw little improvement, however, and with losses mounting and investment in Oriel Park needed, it became clear early in the 1965–66 temper that the membership-based ownership model could not provide the fiscal support required to take the club forward. [ 49 ] A new public limited ship’s company took over in January 1966, after the voluntary elimination of the honest-to-god company. [ 50 ] The new board invested heavily in both Oriel Park and the squad ahead of the 1966–67 season, [ 51 ] and signed a new player-coach, Alan Fox, from Bradford City. [ 52 ] The pay-off was contiguous. Dundalk ultimately won their first League of Ireland Shield, [ 53 ] then charged to the league championship, winning it by seven points, [ 54 ] to seal the club ‘s only League and Shield Double. They then won that season ‘s Top Four Cup to complete the golf club ‘s first ‘treble ‘. [ 55 ] The pursue season Oriel Park hosted european football for the first clock time, under newly installed floodlights, with the visit of Vasas SC of Hungary. [ 56 ] But Fox fell out with the club ‘s board during the trip to Budapest for the render leg, and he was released the succeed March, despite his side being set to retain the title. [ 57 ] The Dublin City Cup of 1967–68 was his concluding success at the clubhouse. [ 58 ] They subsequently finished as runner-up in the League, qualifying for the 1968–69 Fairs Cup, where they won a european tie for the beginning time with victory over DOS Utrecht. [ 59 ] But fourth-place in the League that season, and another City Cup, was all that the remnants of Fox ‘s team could achieve. [ 60 ] future Ireland coach Liam Tuohy took over in the summer of 1969 and besides joined the control panel, [ 61 ] and, as a resultant role of his managerial experience, Dundalk entered the modern ten at the crown of the league board. But Tuohy was obliged to thin the team and cut the wage placard because of the scale of the debts still hanging over the club from the renovation of Oriel Park, [ 62 ] and he could not build a side able to sustain a title challenge. The 1971–72 Shield success would be the high point of his reign, [ 63 ] and he quit at the end of that temper, criticising a miss of local support in the serve. [ 64 ] His lone other trophy at the club was the 1970–71 Leinster Senior Cup. [ 65 ] Dundalk had to sell or release a number of players to survive after Tuohy left, [ 66 ] and they slid down the table—with a young, inexperienced team finishing second from bottom in 1972–73. [ 67 ] To recover the situation, a new board took over the running of the baseball club, and hired English player-manager John Smith from Walsall. [ 68 ] After renegotiating the club ‘s debts, they were able to provide Smith with funds to sign respective players. There was a fast get down to the new temper, and a Leinster Senior Cup Final acquire over Bohemians, [ 69 ] but they subsequently fell away and Smith quit two matches into the 1974–75 league schedule for a caper outside football. [ 70 ] Following his passing, the club appointed Jim McLaughlin as player-manager in November 1974. [ 71 ]

A trophy-laden era ( 1975–1995 ) [edit ]

It was under McLaughlin that Dundalk recovered and reached a new charge of achiever. Despite a still-meagre play budget, he won his beginning league deed ( the golf club ‘s fourth ) in 1975–76, losing entirely one match in the serve, [ 72 ] which brought European football back to the town for the first meter since 1969. In the postdate season ‘s european Cup, they met PSV Eindhoven and were deemed unlucky to only draw the first stage at home. [ 73 ] That match started an unbeaten run in Europe in Oriel Park of eight matches over the keep up five seasons. [ 74 ] They ended the season by winning the Leinster Senior Cup, [ 75 ] and a week subsequently won the club ‘s beginning FAI Cup since 1958 when they defeated Limerick United in the 1977 final. [ 76 ] League form was shuffle for the two seasons following the title and, despite winning their first League Cup and retaining the Leinster Cup, [ 77 ] [ 78 ] a poor end to the 1977–78 season led to rumours that McLaughlin would be let go. [ 79 ] The club supported the “ reorganization ” he demanded, however, and used funds from the sale of three players to Liverpool to invest in the team and make grind improvements at Oriel. His second gear league deed followed in 1978–79, [ 80 ] [ 81 ] and they went on to defeat Waterford in the Cup concluding, thereby completing the club ‘s first League and Cup Double. [ 82 ] The Double winning slope ‘s 1979–80 european Cup run the follow season, where they narrowly missed out on qualifying for the quarter-finals ( going gloomy 3–2 on aggregate to Celtic ), [ 83 ] was the golf club ‘s best european performance until 2016. [ 84 ] They finished as runner-up in the league for the adjacent two seasons, and achieved their entirely domestic cup double in 1980–81—winning both the League Cup and the FAI Cup. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] McLaughlin ‘s third and final league title at the golf club arrived in 1981–82, [ 87 ] after an early on season 10-point gap to Bohemians was overhauled. A trophy-less 1982–83 season, which saw Dundalk skid to third gear place in the league table behind Louth rivals Drogheda United, signalled that the team was entering a transition period. But McLaughlin resigned in May 1983, saying he needed a change. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] After two seasons that ended in mid-table, former musician Turlough O’Connor was appointed ahead of the League ‘s separate into two divisions in 1985–86. [ 90 ] O’Connor promptly built a squad able of challenging for honours and, over the follow eight seasons, his sides systematically finished in the top four. They won the 1987 League Cup Final, [ 91 ] and finished as runner-up in both the League and the FAI Cup—qualifying for Europe for the beginning clock in five years. The play along season started with a chew the fat from Cup Winners ‘ Cup holders Ajax Amsterdam, [ 92 ] and ended with the club ‘s second League and Cup Double —with the deed being won on the last day of the season, [ 93 ] and the FAI Cup being won with victory over Derry City. [ 94 ] O’Connor won his second League Cup in 1989–90, [ 95 ] and another league title followed in 1990–91 in an end of temper, winner takes all match in Turner ‘s Cross against Cork City. [ 96 ] But Dundalk spurned an opportunity to progress in the european Cup, when a 1–1 draw off to Honved was followed by a 0–2 home plate kill. Attendances started to drop perceptibly during 1992–93, [ 97 ] as the newfangled English Premier League, broadcast live on BSkyB, was growing in popularity. By the end of the temper the board was facing fiscal issues that threatened the club ‘s survival—a “ healthy ” excess in 1989, [ 99 ] had become a serious deficit, with income falling due to some of the lowest gate receipts in memory. [ 100 ] The 1993–94 season started with desegregate results, with beneficial aside victories being followed by defeats at home and, after a home get the better of to Monaghan United, O’Connor resigned. [ 101 ] He was replaced by another erstwhile musician, Dermot Keely. [ 102 ] The older players were released, and a dilute team struggled—missing out on the ‘Top Six ‘ round-robin that decided the title. They played out the final one-third of the season in a meaningless ‘bottom six ‘ round-robin in presence of bantam crowd, which contributed to the worsening fiscal placement. [ 103 ] early the following season the fiscal issues came to a head, and a phone number of local businessmen formed a new interim company to take the club over, saving it from bankruptcy. [ 104 ] Despite the problems, and with a police squad calm lacking in depth, Keely led his team to a ninth league title on a dramatic final examination day. They defeated Galway United at home, then, with players and supporters waiting on the lurch to hear the results of Shelbourne ‘s and Derry City ‘s respective matches, newsworthiness filtered through that both had failed to win, confirming Dundalk as Champions. [ 105 ] [ 106 ]

decline and upheaval ( 1995–2012 ) [edit ]

The 1994–95 claim did not halt the overall worsen, and Keely did not see out the title defense, quitting midway through the 1995–96 season—reportedly frustrated at being unable to strengthen his team. [ 107 ] They sank down the table, and had to survive a promotion/relegation play-off in 1996–97. [ 108 ] The board turned to Jim McLaughlin to try to turn things around, [ 109 ] but early in the 1998–99 season it was revealed that the cabaret was in serious fiscal trouble again and the whole squad had been remove listed. [ 110 ] An end of season collapse saw the club drop from the top-tier for the first meter, with relegation confirmed 20-years to the day after they had won their first Double. [ 111 ] Plans for a supporters ‘ cooperative to take the club over led to some optimism, [ 112 ] and initial expectations were of an contiguous come back to the top-flight. But Dundalk became embroiled in a lose battle with the league ‘s hierarchy and Kilkenny City, which reached the high Court, over the latter playing an improperly registered musician. [ 113 ] The following season the cooperative invested heavily in the play squad and, under new director Martin Murray, they were promoted as 2000–01 First Division Champions. [ 114 ] Although apparently well-placed for the retort to the top-flight, they were relegated again the follow season, with the League being reduced from 12 teams to 10. [ 115 ] Despite this reverse, they won the club ‘s ninth FAI Cup a week later, with victory over Bohemians in the final examination. [ 116 ] After being relegated again, Dundalk were stuck in the lower reaches of the First Division for the next four seasons. [ 117 ] With no sign of promotion, the cooperative members agreed to the cabaret being taken back into private ownership by its CEO, Gerry Matthews. They finished second under new coach John Gill in 2006, securing a play-off tie against Waterford United. tied though they won the play-off, [ 118 ] they were still denied a rate in the 2007 Premier Division, with Galway United ( who had finished third in that season ‘s First Division ) selected by the FAI ‘s 2006 IAG Report to be promoted ahead of both Dundalk and Waterford. [ 119 ] In 2008 they won promotion back to the Premier Division, pipping Shelbourne to the top spot on the final night of the season. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] Gill was let go, despite winning the First Division entitle. [ 122 ] At first gear, Dundalk stabilised their side back in the Premier Division—qualifying for the 2010–11 Europa League, leading the league board center through the 2010 season, and reaching the 2011 Setanta Sports Cup final. But results subsequently deteriorated and, with fiscal losses mounting as the 2011 temper drew to a conclusion, Matthews decided to relinquish control of the baseball club. [ 123 ] With the club in danger of insolvency during a black 2012, it was taken over by local businessmen Andy Connolly and Paul Brown ( owners of the team ‘s official sponsors, Fastfix ), and Dundalk subsequently managed to remain in the top-flight by defeating Waterford United in the play-off. [ 124 ]

revival and dominance ( 2013–2019 ) [edit ]

Having saved the club, the new owners turned to Stephen Kenny —out of work since being sacked by Shamrock Rovers—to become the newfangled coach. [ 125 ] They mounted an unexpected title challenge in his first season, finally finishing as runners-up—a kill to eventual champions St. Patrick ‘s Athletic ultimately costing them the title. [ 126 ] But Kenny kept the nucleus of the modern english together for the come season, and went on to guide the club to its first league deed since 1994–95. [ 127 ] They besides won that season ‘s League Cup, [ 128 ] the club ‘s first League and League Cup Double. The 2015 season saw them dominate, winning the club ‘s third League and FAI Cup Double —with the claim being won by 11-points and the Cup with victory over Cork City in the final. [ 129 ] They besides won the Leinster Senior Cup—the club ‘s first ‘treble ‘ since 1966–67. A third league title in a row was sealed with two games to spare in 2016. [ 130 ] 2016 besides saw the club qualify for the Champions League play-off round, after they first defeated FH of Iceland, [ 131 ] then came from a goal down in the tie to defeat BATE Borisov 3–1 on aggregate. [ 132 ] They drew Legia Warsaw for the play-off, with the first leg played in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in front of a herd of 30,417. [ 133 ] They suffered a 2–0 frustration in the home stage, but shocked Legia in the return leg by taking a 1–0 tip. With Dundalk pushing for the counterweight that would have taken the bind to extra-time, Legia scored on the break, and won the tie 3–1 on aggregate. [ 134 ] As a result, Dundalk qualified for the group phase of the Europa League. A trace with AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands, [ 135 ] followed by a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv in Tallaght Stadium, were the first points earned by an irish club in the group degree of european contest. [ 136 ] In 2017, after the european scat, they won the League Cup again. [ 137 ] But the deviation of some key players, [ 138 ] and a slowly begin, think of they slipped to runner-up spots in both league and FAI Cup. The clubhouse ‘s european form had attracted concern from overseas and a consortium of american investors led by Peak6 Investments LLC completed a coup d’etat in January 2018. [ 139 ] Kenny ‘s side reasserted itself in 2018, winning another League and Cup Double—the second under Kenny and fourth in the club ‘s history—breaking points-total and goals scored-total records in the action. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] In the consequence, Kenny resigned in order to accept the Republic of Ireland U-21 director ‘s character. [ 142 ]
Hoping to achieve continuity, the newfangled owners replaced Kenny with his Assistant Manager, Vinny Perth, as Head Coach, with John Gill returning as First Team Coach. [ 143 ] Despite falling 13-points behind early 2019 leaders Shamrock Rovers in April, which saw Rovers being called “ title-winners in waiting ”, [ 144 ] they overhauled the deficit within weeks, [ 145 ] and subsequently won the club ‘s 14th league title with four games to spare. [ 146 ] They besides won the League Cup by defeating Derry City on penalties in the final examination, to secure a second League and League Cup Double. [ 147 ] They were denied a first domestic Treble of League, FAI Cup and League Cup, however, when they were beaten in a penalty shoot-out in the FAI Cup Final. [ 148 ] But they ended the season with a comprehensive 7–1 aggregate victory over Northern Irish champions, Linfield, in the inaugural Champions Cup. [ 149 ]

transition ( 2020–present ) [edit ]

early the follow season, a finish scored by Jordan Flores went viral and was subsequently nominated for the FIFA Puskás Award. [ 150 ] soon after, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the cessation of football in line with other european countries. The season resumed with a shrink schedule of 18 matches in sum and matches being played behind closed doors. [ 151 ] Manager Vinny Perth was dismissed following Dundalk ‘s exit from Europe in the first qualifying circle of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League. He was replaced by italian Filippo Giovagnoli. [ 152 ] Dundalk subsequently qualified for the group stage of the 2020–21 Europa League after victories over Inter Club d’Escaldes, Sheriff Tiraspol and KÍ Klaksvik in the qualify rounds. [ 153 ] Dundalk were drawn in Group B alongside Arsenal, Rapid Wien, and Molde. They failed to pick up any points and finished bottom of the group. [ 154 ] In the FAI Cup, they had an 11–0 semi-final victory over Athlone Town —setting a new record for the biggest gain in the rival ‘s history, which was besides a new clubhouse record victory. [ 155 ] They followed that with a 4–2 extra-time victory over the holders, Shamrock Rovers, with David McMillan scoring a hat-trick, to win the Cup for the twelfth time and qualify for Europe for the twenty-fifth time. [ 156 ] The 2021 season saw Shane Keegan named first-team director with Giovagnoli reverting to the put of ‘coach ‘ because the latter had been unable to secure a stead on a UEFA Pro Licence course, the qualification being a prerequisite for the director of a team competing in european rival. [ 157 ] The season began with a victory in the President ‘s Cup, [ 158 ] but after a run of defeats at the begin of the league crusade, both Keegan and Giovagnoli left the cabaret. [ 159 ] After a period where new Sporting Director Jim Magilton took accusation, Vinny Perth returned to the club as director in June. [ 160 ] Dundalk struggled for the remainder of the domestic temper with their lowest league end since 2012 and went out to Vitesse Arnhem, 4–3 on aggregate, in the third qualifying round of the inaugural address Europa Conference League. [ 161 ] Before the season ended, the club was returned to local ownership when a consortium led by former co-owner Andy Connolly and sports engineering tauten STATSports agreed a takeover with Peak6. [ 162 ]

Colours and crest [edit ]

Kit history [edit ]

Dundalk ‘s colours have been white shirts with black shorts and black or white socks since the get down of the 1940–41 season. It is known that the Dundalk G.N.R. club wore blue shirts when it started in 1903. [ 163 ] and were reported to be wearing “ jaundiced and black ” in 1906, [ 164 ] but there is no far evidence of define club color in the pre-World War I years. When the cabaret was revived for the 1919–20 season, the colours adopted were black and amber-striped shirts with blank shorts. In advance of dropping the ‘G.N.R. ‘ nickname and becoming ‘Dundalk A.F.C. ‘, the club changed to a strip of egg white shirts with the coat of arms of the town ( the previous Dundalk Corporation seal ) as its cap and navy-blue shorts. The new colours were first worn on St Stephen ‘s Day 1927 in the opening peer of the 1927–28 League of Ireland Shield. [ 17 ] This combination was worn until 1939 but came to be seen as doomed due to the issue of cup final examination defeats Dundalk had in the 1930s. Hoping a change would bring more luck, the club introduced a sky blue and maroon quartered shirt with white shorts and maroon socks in 1939–40. [ 166 ] But they promptly lost to non-league opposition in the first cycle of that season ‘s FAI Cup, [ 167 ] and they returned to ashen shirts for the follow temper, this clock paired with black shorts. possibly by coincidence, when the clubs of the town amalgamated to form the first Dundalk Association Football Club in 1904, the colours chosen were “ white shirt, bearing the Dundalk coat of arms, and black pants ”. [ 168 ] [ 169 ] The ‘home ‘ colours have remained basically unchanged, although red trims have besides been incorporated occasionally since the 1990s. An all-white kit out was introduced for the first time in the 1965–66 season. [ 170 ] All-white was besides used in 1973–74 and 2003. All-white kits are still worn occasionally when required to avoid kit clashes. [ 171 ]

Dundalk G.N.R. colours 1919–1927

Dundalk A.F.C. colours 1927–1939

Dundalk A.F.C. colours 1939–40

‘Home ‘ colours
since 1940

Away colours

The earliest photographic commemorate of the team in ‘away ‘ colours comes from the 1928–29 season. For their first visit to play Fordsons after adopting white shirts, Dundalk were obliged to wear borrowed shirts with their own united states navy blue shorts and black socks, as the home side besides wore white shirts. [ 172 ] From then until the end of the follow temper ( when the Cork cabaret changed its color ) Dundalk wore their old black and amber-striped shirts with their fresh navy blue shorts and black socks for away matches in Cork. [ 173 ] For most of the adjacent 60 years, aside colours were not required. If change colours were needed crimson shirts were used, and for the Cup Winners ‘ Cup ties away to Hajduk Split in 1977, and Tottenham Hotspur in 1981, all-red kits were worn. An all-red away kit was introduced in the 1990–91 season, and away kits have typically been variants on loss or black since. Alternative color combinations have been used since 2012, although black remains the most common base away color. [ 175 ] The club has twice introduced away colours that pay court to its G.N.R. roots—in 2016 and again in 2021. [ 176 ] anterior to 2019, ad hoc third gear colours had only been worn by the team when both home and aside kits clashed with an opponent ‘s colors. A formal commercially available third base kit out was introduced that temper for the beginning time—an all-lilac deprive with flannel and black trim. It was designed by then kit supplier CX+ Sport, as separate of a fundraising partnership between the club and Temple Street Children ‘s University Hospital. The logo of the jacob’s ladder replaced that of the official presenter Fyffes on the thorax of the shirt. [ 177 ] This kit out was worn in all rounds of the 2019 League Cup, and the early rounds of the FAI Cup. [ 147 ]

traditional ‘Away ‘ colours – discrepancy 1

traditional ‘Away ‘ colours – discrepancy 2

traditional ‘Away ‘ colours – form 3

‘Away ‘ kit
2012–2014
‘Away ‘ kit out
2016–2017
‘Third ‘ kit
2019
‘Away ‘ kit out
2021

Kit suppliers [edit ]

The club ‘s kit supplier is Umbro, who signed a three-year manage beginning with the 2020 season. [ 178 ] Umbro had previously been the supplier between 2007 and 2015. They replaced Dundalk-based CX+ Sport ( a Horseware Ireland company ), who were the suppliers for four seasons between 2016 and 2019. Another Dundalk party, Eros Sportswear, supplied kits between 1985 and 1988. O ’ Neills ( 1976–1984 ; 1990–2004 ) have besides been a long-run supplier. Erreà ( 2005 ) and Diadora ( 2006 ) have each been suppliers for one season ; while Adidas Teamwear was used temporarily during 1982–83. A cork -based company, Union Sport, supplied kits for two seasons ( 1988–89 and 1989–90 ). Their products were noteworthy in that the party used a confederate flag ( the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia ) as its logo, which featured prominently on team shirts and other dress. [ 180 ]

Crest history [edit ]

[181] Dundalk Corporation Seal in 1837 Ahead of severing its links with the Great Northern Railway, the football club adopted the then coat of arms of the township of Dundalk ( “ three martlets proper on a blue field ” ) in December 1927 and incorporated the crest on the baseball club ‘s newfangled white play shirts. [ 17 ] This coat of arms had been adopted by the town in 1673 when it was granted a charter under Charles II of England. [ 182 ] It appears as the ‘Corporation Seal ‘ in a town plan dated 1675. [ 183 ] The peak disappeared from the play shirts in 1930, however, after the urban zone council proposed to remove the “ three blacken crows ” from the seal of the town. [ 184 ] A modified crest was reintroduced to the shirt for the 1952 FAI Cup Final, consisting of three black martlets on a white shield bearing the club name. After a number of minor redesigns in the succeed years, the white shield became a crimson shield with white martlets in 1997, and in 2015 this cap was modified to incorporate a gold leading, to commemorate Dundalk ‘s tenth League of Ireland style .

Home grounds [edit ]

acrobatic Grounds [edit ]

between 1903 and 1936 Dundalk by and large played at the Athletic Grounds near the town center, paying a anchor tip per game. During the club ‘s junior football and Leinster Senior League years, it sometimes played at the grounds of the Dundalk Educational Institution ( immediately Dundalk Grammar School ) and St Mary ‘s College. The acrobatic Grounds were owned and rented out by the Dundalk Young Ireland ‘s Athletic Grounds Company for cricket, Gaelic games, and athletics arsenic well as football. Matches were normally played on Sundays, enabling a big Northern Irish contingent of spectators ( inconvenienced by Sunday Observance laws ) to attend games. then, if matches had to be moved to Saturdays due to the ground being unavailable, the club suffered financially from lower gate receipts. [ 186 ] In by and by years prior to the travel to Oriel Park, matches would normally move to the Carroll ‘s Recreation Ground on weekends when the Athletic Grounds were unavailable altogether. The athletic Grounds were sold as kingdom for a factory development in 1959. [ 187 ]

Oriel Park [edit ]

In 1936 the club moved permanently to land made available by erstwhile committee extremity P.J. Casey on the Carrick Road, on a long-run estate lease, naming the new background “ Oriel Park “. [ 26 ] Almost 10 years to the day after Dundalk G.N.R. played their first free State League meet away to Fordsons, the like club ( as Cork F.C. ) were the first base visitors to the new ground, with the family team winning 2–1. [ 188 ] Oriel Park ‘s attendance criminal record is an estimate 18,000, set in 1982 for Dundalk ‘s european Cup Winners ‘ Cup second rung bind against Tottenham Hotspur F.C. [ a ] [ 190 ] On occasions when Oriel has been unavailable due to works, matches have been moved to United Park in Drogheda or Gortakeegan in Monaghan. The ground has had an artificial acting surface since 2005. [ 191 ]

Home grounds for European matches

Dundalk played their first home European peer, against F.C. Zurich in the 1963–64 european Cup, in Dalymount Park in Dublin—as Oriel Park did not have floodlights. [ 192 ] Floodlighting was installed in 1967 to allow matches to be played there—the first being the sojourn of Vasas SC of Hungary in the 1967–68 european Cup. [ 56 ] The 1995–96 UEFA Cup tie against Malmö was moved to United Park in Drogheda, due to the Oriel pitch being re-laid that summer, and the 2002–03 UEFA Cup tie against Varteks was moved to Tolka Park in Dublin because Oriel did not meet UEFA ‘s upgrade standards for football stadiums at that prison term. [ 193 ] Oriel has since been upgraded to a Category 2 Stadium, able to accommodate 3,100 seat spectators for european matches. [ 194 ] Matches requiring a crunch to have Category 3 status have been played in Tallaght Stadium ( owned by South Dublin County Council ) and matches requiring a ground meeting Category 4 status have been played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. [ 195 ]

Supporters [edit ]

The Supporters Club is called ‘The 1903 ‘ in respect of the football cabaret ‘s year of formation. [ 196 ] There is besides a Ladies Supporters Club, the ‘Lilywhite Ladies ‘. [ 197 ] The Dundalk G.N.R. club ‘s members formed its first Supporters Club during the 1928–29 season. [ 198 ] The Supporters Clubs have raised vital funds in support of the baseball club through the decades, money that was often required to keep the cabaret viable. [ 99 ] Dundalk fans have nicknamed the team ‘the Lilywhites ‘ because of the team ‘s white shirts, and supporters besides use ‘the Town ‘ as shorthand for the club. Both nicknames have been in use since at least the 1950s. [ 1 ] The hashtag #CmonTheTown is used by fans on social media. [ 199 ] From when the club was first gear formed until its change of colours in 1927–28, the team ‘s nickname was ‘the Railwaymen ‘. [ 2 ] Later, the team was known as ‘the Northerners ”, [ 200 ] or ‘the Bordermen ‘ ( due to the town ‘s location close to the margin with Northern Ireland ). [ 201 ] The current generation of fans—who followed the club out of the First Division, through the possession crisis of 2012, and into the successful 2013–2019 period—style themselves the “ Shedside Army ”. They are responsible for Oriel ‘s ‘ tifo ‘ displays. One such display—the flying of palestinian flags in Oriel Park during a Europa League tie—resulted in a UEFA fine for Dundalk of €18,000. [ 202 ] Supporters have two mottoes : “ We See Things They’ll Never See “ owing to the roller-coaster of highs and lows the club has experienced ; [ 203 ] and “ Dundalk Will Never Die But You Will “, [ 204 ] a riff on a Mogwai album title. The club hymn has become Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers ( both for the intension with the cap, and the sentiments expressed in the lyrics ). [ 205 ]

Support base and attendances [edit ]

Town of Dundalk and geographic area of Dundalk F.C. support root The club ‘s confirm root extends beyond the township of Dundalk itself in a radius of approximately 30 km. It takes in the Dundalk Municipal District in north Louth, which comprises the towns of Dundalk, Carlingford and Blackrock ; the Ardee Municipal District in mid-Louth, which comprises the towns of Ardee and Dunleer ; the east Monaghan zone of Castleblaney – Carrickmacross ; and the south Armagh contribution of the Newry and Mourne district. [ 206 ] The entire population of this area is good over 100,000. [ 207 ] The average Friday night home league attendances have been coherent at approximately 3,000 in the 2015–2019 time period, [ 208 ] with attendances at ‘bigger ‘ matches of approximately 4,000. [ 209 ] [ 210 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

The Louth Derby is contested between Dundalk and Drogheda United, who entered the League of Ireland in 1963. The clubs played an annual friendly from 1966 to 1984—the Donegan Cup, [ 211 ] presented by erstwhile Louth TD Paddy Donegan. apart from one undertake to revive the contest in 1990, [ 212 ] it was dropped as the two clubs could not find suitable dates for it during the season after the split of the League of Ireland into two divisions. The friendly was reintroduced as a pre-season match in 1997 with a raw trophy—the Jim Malone Cup, in honor of three-time chair of the board, the belated Jim Malone. [ 213 ] While there is a sibling competition between the two towns, [ 214 ] league derbies are not normally fractious due to the clubs rarely competing for top honor simultaneously, although the two clubs did meet in the final of the 1971–72 League of Ireland Shield, with Dundalk winning 5–0. [ 63 ] Many of Dundalk ‘s most successful periods have corresponded with Drogheda being at the lower end of the league table, or in the First Division, while Drogheda ‘s most successful period ( between 2004 and 2008 ) was achieved while Dundalk were in the lower grade. Nonetheless, FAI Cup ties between the sides—there have been seven in all—have much been stormy affairs in presence of big crowd, [ 215 ] with three going to replays. In addition to the Louth Derby, Dundalk fans would see Shamrock Rovers as their biggest rivals, as Rovers hold the read for the most league titles and the read for the most FAI Cups, with Dundalk next in the honours tilt for both competitions. [ 216 ]

possession and finances [edit ]

The clubhouse is presently owned by a private company deal as ‘Dundalk Town FC Limited ‘. The trading company is owned by a consortium of investors led by Andy Connolly and sports technology firm STATSports. [ 162 ]

Ownership history [edit ]

As an association football baseball club for the employees of the Great Northern Railway works in the town, it was ‘owned ‘ by the company and run by a management committee elected by the members. The cabaret was converted to a membership-based limited company— “ Dundalk Association Football Club Limited ” —on 25 January 1932, [ 23 ] bringing it under the ownership of its supporters, who elected a management committee every two years. This possession social organization survived until the end of 1965 but by that stage, the club ‘s liabilities had grown while Oriel Park was in want of investment. The membership-based model, which saw the cabaret break even on an annual footing at best, could not provide the command finance and the caller was voluntarily liquidated and taken over by a public limited company— “ Dundalk Football Club Limited ” —in January 1966. [ 50 ] The fiscal issues that occurred in belated 1994, which saw the club become efficaciously bankrupt, forced the elimination of the 1966 company, and it was taken over by “ Dundalk AFC Interim Limited ”, made up of former and current directors under chair Enda McGuill. [ 104 ] But the solvency issues that had faced the baseball club through most of the 1990s rebel again in 1998, [ 110 ] resulting in delegating for the first base time in the club ‘s history that temper. It was finally taken over by the ‘Dundalk F.C. Co-operative ‘ in 2000, [ 112 ] returning it to a membership-based, supporter-owned model. But the cooperative was unable to make the kind of investment in either the team or Oriel Park required to bring the baseball club back to the Premier Division, [ 217 ] and they decided to sell the prepare land, Hiney Park, in ordain to service debts and pay for work at Oriel. [ 218 ] [ 219 ] The serviceman who purchased Hiney Park, Gerry Matthews, was subsequently invited to join the board as CEO in 2006. [ 220 ] He then took the club back into secret ownership as ‘Dundalk FC Limited ‘ when it was accepted that the cooperative could not continue to support it. Under the possession of Matthews, it was returned to a reasonably upstanding footing but his decision to end his fiscal support in 2012 lead to another solvency issue. [ 123 ] With the aid of the Dundalk FC Supporters Trust, the club was rescued by the owners of its official sponsors, Fastfix — Paul Brown and Andy Connolly. They formed a modern deal company ‘Dundalk Town FC Limited ‘ and completed a coup d’etat in time for the 2013 season. Brown and Connolly then sold their interest to the stream owners in 2018. [ 139 ] At the end of the 2021 season, the club was returned to local anesthetic possession when a consortium led by the returning Connolly and sports technology firm STATSports agreed a coup d’etat softwood with Peak6. [ 162 ]
With the introduction of shirt sponsorship in 1980, Dundalk ‘s beginning shirt sponsor became National Aluminium, [ 221 ] whose sword remained on team shirts until 1984. From 1987 until 2002 the official patron was Harp Lager ( the mark being synonymous with the town, and the Great Northern Brewery being merely 800 metres from Oriel Park ). subsequently, the club had a number of official sponsors, including a sponsorship batch with Fyffes, which ran from 2012 until 2020. [ 222 ] For the 2021 season, the team playing shirt ‘s thorax logo is that of official sponsors Bet Regal. The shirt ‘s sleeve presenter is Nissan John McCabe Motors and the back of the shirt ‘s patronize is Statsport. The shorts are sponsored by DkIT Sport. The full tilt of sponsors for 2021 are :

• Bet Regal (Official Sponsor)
• Nissan John McCabe Motors
• Statsports
• Umbro (Official kit supplier)
• Deluxe Bathrooms (Sponsors of the Dundalk FC App)
• Sportsfile

The club besides has several commercial partners, which for 2021 are :

• Permanent TSB (Official Banking Partner)
• UHY Farrelly Dawe Whyte (Official Payroll Partner)
• Intact Software (Official Technology Partner)
• CTI Business Solutions (Official Office Equipment Partner)
• Clarity Sports (Official European Travel Supplier)
• TrainMyAthlete (Official Athlete Management Partner)
• SiSú (Official Wellness Partner)
• Gardiner Family Apothecary (Official Skincare Partner)
• Rocksalt (Official ‘Good Food’ Partner)
• Classic Mineral Water Company (Official Water Partner)
• XXI Ice (Official Premium Hand Rolled Ice Cream Partner)
• Irishify (Official Diaspora Partner)

There are respective early sponsorship arrangements, such as sponsorship of person players, [ 224 ] and sponsorship of individual family matches. The golf club ‘s Lotto is managed in partnership with Clubforce. [ 225 ] There is a merchandise patronize at Oriel Park and an on-line storehouse on the official web site. [ 226 ] In addition to sponsorship, Oriel Park is made available for junior and schools football, and is besides available for rent to private groups and clubs in other sporting codes. [ 227 ] The ground ‘s populace cake, ‘The Lilywhite Lounge ‘, is available for social events, as is the members ‘ bar—the ‘Enda McGuill Suite ‘. [ 228 ] The club introduced a membership scheme for supporters in 2020. The scheme is run on a monthly subscription basis via Patreon. [ 229 ]

player transfers [edit ]

Players in the League of Ireland are typically signed on single season contracts, meaning they become free agents at the end of each temper. [ 230 ] Contracts of biennial duration are less distinctive ; while players and clubs rarely sign deals of a longer duration. [ 231 ] As a resultant role, the transfer-fee inflation seen throughout european club football has not been a feature of the game in Ireland, and Dundalk have not benefited financially from player transfers since the Bosman rule came into consequence. indeed, the PFAI Players ‘ Player of the class for 2015 ( Richie Towell ), and 2016 ( Daryl Horgan ), both left for EFL Championship clubs at the end of their respective award-winning seasons on rid transfers, due to contract termination. [ 232 ] transfer fees both paid and received have broadly remained undisclosed. The record transmit fee received ( when all clauses were finally triggered and paid ) was approximately £80,000 ( equivalent to €200,000 in 2019 ) [ 233 ] for Steve Staunton, who was signed by Liverpool in August 1986 for an initial fee of £20,000. Dundalk subsequently received a farther estimated £70,000 ( equivalent to €150,000 in 2019 ) [ 233 ] when Staunton was transferred by Liverpool to Aston Villa in 1991. [ 234 ]

Media [edit ]

television and radio [edit ]

Ireland ‘s State-owned public service broadcaster, RTÉ, has broadcast rights for League of Ireland and FAI Cup matches as part of a software from the FAI that includes international matches. however, there is little or no income derived from these rights for clubs. [ 235 ] indeed, the network refused to pay the tip asked to broadcast the home stage of Dundalk ‘s Champions League victory against BATE Borisov in 2016, [ 236 ] [ 132 ] alone a few months after they were named RTÉ ‘s “ team of the year ” for 2015. [ 237 ] RTÉ had besides previously offered the FAI €4 million to avoid having to televise any League of Ireland matches on its channels at all. [ 236 ] commercial broadcaster Eir Sport televises a count of be league and european matches during the temper. Again, clubs receive little or no fiscal dividend as the matches are considered a marketing opportunity for the League and not a commercial sake for the network. [ 235 ] Eir Sport besides broadcast the majority of League of Ireland clubs ‘ european matches. [ 238 ] bouncy comment of matches is broadcast on Dundalk FM ( a residential district radio receiver station ) and LMFM. The radio broadcasts do not have license restrictions and can be accessed on-line in Ireland and globally from the stations ‘ websites. [ 239 ]

on-line [edit ]

historically, live on-line pour of domestic games was limited to pilot program programs and streams run by on-line gambling companies. [ 240 ] As a resultant role of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 season, which resulted in matches being played behind close doors, the WatchLOI service was introduced by the FAI and RTÉ. The overhaul made all games not already due to be broadcast on television receiver available for streaming global on a subscription basis. [ 241 ] The WatchLOI service was discontinued in June 2021 and replaced by a LOITV, with clubs being responsible for producing their own alive match coverage. [ 242 ]

social media [edit ]

The club maintains a presence on all major social media platforms, including Patreon, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and SoundCloud .

Club publications [edit ]

A matchday program is produced for all home matches—the “ DFC Magazine “. This program was voted ‘Programme of the Year ‘ for 10 of the 12 seasons between 2008 and 2019 by the Irish Football Programme Club. [ 243 ] In 2017 the Louth County Museum celebrated the achievements of the club with a new exhibition entitled “ One team, One dream ”, which ran for over a year. [ 244 ] In 2018 a inadequate documentary entitled “ Chasing Doubles ” was published on YouTube by Dundalk Sport and Lightstorm Media. The piece was nominated by the FAI for a “ Best Digital Initiative Award ”, as share of the association ‘s “ Communications Awards ” in July 2019. [ 245 ] In accession, the following books have been published :

• 2003: The History of Dundalk F.C. — The First 100 Years, by Jim Murphy
• 2013: C’mon The Town! A Dundalk FC Miscellany, by Jim Murphy
• 2014: CHAMP10NS, by Gavin McLaughlin
• 2015: The Double, by Gavin McLaughlin
• 2016: Making History, by Gavin McLaughlin
• 2018: Taking Back the Throne, by Gavin McLaughlin
• 2019: We See Things They’ll Never See, by Gavin McLaughlin
• 2020: Dundalk Football Club: In Black And White, by Daniel Sexton

Players [edit ]

First-team squad [edit ]

As of 20 November 2021. [ 246 ] [ 247 ] [ 248 ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

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

young person teams [edit ]

Dundalk Football Club maintains an academy with youth teams in the U-14, U-15, U-17, and U-19 age brackets of the League of Ireland, [ 249 ] in partnership with Malahide United of the Leinster Senior League. [ 250 ]

Women ‘s teams [edit ]

Dundalk do not presently have a women ‘s team in the Women ‘s National League ( Ireland ) formed in 2011. The aged women ‘s team competes in the North East Football League North Division. [ 251 ] anterior to the constitution of the WNLI, a loosely consort baseball club, Dundalk City L.F.C., experienced success in the Dublin Women ‘s Soccer League during the 2000–2005 time period, culminating in victory in the 2005 Women ‘s FAI Cup Final. [ 252 ] [ bel ] The clubhouse late split over a proposed wax amalgamation with Dundalk F.C. and subsequently, both Dundalk City and Dundalk W.F.C. became defunct. Dundalk F.C. besides maintains a female child team at Under 15 level. [ 253 ]

Scholarships [edit ]

A sports scholarship, run by Dundalk Institute of Technology ( DkIT ) in partnership with the baseball club, “ is aimed at those candidates who wish to pursue a full-time third floor education whilst simultaneously pursuing a professional soccer playing career with League of Ireland Champions Dundalk FC ”. [ 254 ]

early players [edit ]

International players [edit ]

Personnel [edit ]

technical staff [edit ]

As of 28 September 2021.

Position

Staff

Head Coach
Vacant

Goalkeeping Coach
Graham Byas

Strength and Conditioning Coach
Vacant

Physiotherapist
Sean Tiernan

Doctor
Vacant

Sports Scientist
Lorcan Mason

Video Analyst
Dominic Corrigan

Kit Manager
Noel Walsh

Academy Manager
Vacant

Academy Sports Scientist
Andrew Morrissey

Academy Strength & Conditioning
James Shields, Coran Lindsay

reference : [ 255 ]

cabaret officials [edit ]

Name

Role

Des Casey

Honorary Club President

Sean O’Connor

Chairman

Andy Connolly, Sean O’Connor, Alan Clarke

Board Members

Colm Murphy

Club Secretary

Gavin McLaughlin

Media Officer

Darren Crawley

Press Officer

Simon Blackmore

Club Licensing Officer

Elaine Duffy

Finance Officer

Ailish Kelly

Office Manager

Karen Travers

Office administration

Paul Brown, Andy Connolly, Padraig McGowan

Club Ambassadors

Liam Burns

Community Officer

Jane McDermott

Disability Access Officer

Stephen Todd

Supporter Liaison Officer

Ronan Shields

Commercial Manager

Paddy Casey

Marketing Consultant

Regina O’Hare

Event Controller

Kevin Carthy

Bar Manager

John Moore, Jimmy Fisher, Cyril Moore, Stephen Fisher, David Caldwell

Ground staff

Sportsfile, Ciarán Culligan

Photography

Michael Duffy

PA Announcer

source : [ 255 ]

former managers [edit ]

Records [edit ]

The read for the most appearances in all competitions is presently held by Tommy McConville, who appeared in 580 matches in two stints at the baseball club between 1964 and 1986. [ 256 ] A phone number of players have won five league titles—Martin Lawlor being the first to reach the bell ringer. [ 257 ] Joey Donnelly is the clear goalscorer with 142 goals in all competitions. Five early players— Eddie Carroll, Joe Martin, Jimmy Hasty, Paddy Turner, and Patrick Hoban —have besides scored 100 goals or more. [ 258 ] Hoban broke Donnelly ‘s club record for league goals during the 2019 season. [ 259 ] Bob Egan became the beginning Dundalk player to win an international capital on 20 April 1929, when he represented Ireland in a 4–0 kill of Belgium. [ 260 ] The player who has won the most caps while at the clubhouse is Billy O’Neill, who won 11 caps for Ireland—his external career being cut shortstop at the age of 23 by the outbreak of World War II. Mick Fairclough was the most recently capped player, earning two caps in May 1982. [ 261 ] In 2021, Raivis Jurkovskis and Sonni Nattestad became the first Dundalk players to be capped for a state other than Ireland while at the clubhouse. [ 262 ] Dundalk ‘s record win is an 11–0 victory over Athlone Town in the 2020 FAI Cup. [ 155 ] The phonograph record league win is 9–0, achieved against Jacobs in 1932, and again against Shelbourne in 1980. The biggest victory in a european equal is 4–0, achieved with home wins against Fram Reykjavík in the 1981–82 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, [ 263 ] and Newtown in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League. [ 264 ] The record base attendance is 30,417 v Legia Warsaw in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin for the Champions League play-off round in 2016. [ 265 ]

european competition [edit ]

Dundalk made their european debut as League Champions in the 1963–64 european Cup and became the first gear irish side to win an away equal in Europe the same season. In the 1979–80 european Cup they reached the last 16, which was their best european performance until 2016. That season, they reached the group stage of the 2016–17 Europa League and became the first base team from Ireland to both win points and win a match at that charge of european competition. They qualified for the Europa League group phase for the second time in 2020–21. [ 266 ] They have played against several major names in european football such as Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Celtic, FC Porto, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Red Star Belgrade, Hajduk Split, Legia Warsaw, and Zenit St Petersburg. They have faced opponents from the Netherlands most frequently, having played ties against PSV, Ajax, DOS Utrecht, AZ Alkmaar, and Vitesse Arnhem. [ 267 ] The cabaret is now the highest-ranked Irish golf club in european football in terms of UEFA club coefficients. [ 268 ] In a January 2021 ranking compiled by statistical psychoanalysis locate FiveThirtyEight, Dundalk were ranked 290th in ‘International Club Soccer ‘. [ 269 ]

Overall European record.

As of 12 August 2021. [ 270 ]

Honours [edit ]

source : [ 271 ]

References [edit ]

Footnotes

1. ^[189] figures of 17,000 to 21,000 have been quoted for the european Cup necktie against Celtic F.C. in 1979. however, due to the rehearse of recording ‘gates ‘ in monetary terms, the accurate number in attendance at that equal is unknown—as children and pensioners were charged lower prices or let in for release .
2. ^ This victory is not included in the Dundalk F.C. Honours list, as Dundalk City L.F.C. were considered to be a separate club .
3. ^ interim or caretaker appointments intended to be short term not included
4. ^ Gerry Doyle was the first modern-style coach. Prior to his date, the club employed ‘Trainers ‘ or ‘Coaches ‘ with the management committee creditworthy for player recruitment and team survival .

Bibliography

• Sexton, Daniel (2020). Dundalk Football Club: In Black And White. Amazon. ISBN 979-8639712814.
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• McQuillan, Jack (1993). Railway Town : The Story of the Great Northern Railway Works and Dundalk. Dundalgan Press. ISBN 0852211201.
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• Murphy, Jim (2013). C’mon The Town! A Dundalk F.C. Miscellany. Self published.
• Graham, Alex (2005). Football in the Republic of Ireland a Statistical Record 1921–2005. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN 1-86223-135-4.
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