Derry City Football Club (Ireland: span lang = "ga"> Cumann Peile Chathair Dhoire ) is a professional football-based club in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It plays in the Premier League Division of Ireland, the top level football league in the Republic of Ireland, and is the only Irish League contestant from Northern Ireland. The club's home ground is the Brandywell Stadium and the players wear red and white striped shirts from which their nicknames, Candystripes , originate. This club is also known as Red and White Army , Derry or Cities .
The club, founded in 1928, originally played in the Irish League, the domestic league in Northern Ireland, and won the title in 1964-1965. In 1971, a security issue related to the Problem meant the match could not be played at Brandywell. The team played 30 miles (48 km) of home gear in Coleraine. Security forces withdrew their objections to the use of Brandywell the following year, but in the face of pressure from the Irish League that unsustainable arrangements continued, the club withdrew from the league. After 13 years in junior football, he joined the new Irish League First Division for 1985-86. Derry won the First Division title and reached promotion to the Premier Division in 1987, and remained there until relegation 2009. The club won a domestic treble in 1988-89, the only Irish League club so far to do so.
After spending most of his time in the League of Ireland in the Premier Division, the club was released in November 2009 when there was found a secondary and unofficial contract with the player. It was restored a few weeks later but was relegated to the First Division, the second level.
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History
Founded in 1928, the club decided not to use the controversial official title of the city - Londonderry - in its name, while also deciding not to continue the name of the city's prior main club, Derry Celtic, making it more inclusive for all the identity and football fans of the city. Derry City was awarded entry into the Irish League in 1929 as a professional and was given permission by Londonderry Corporation to use the Brandywell City Stadium. The club's first significant success came in 1935 when it lifted the City Cup. It repeated the feat in 1937, but did not win another major trophy until 1949, when it defeated Glentoran to win the first Irish Cup. It won the Irish Cup for the second time in 1954, defeating Glentoran again, and for the third time in 1964 - the year it also won the Gold Cup - despite the club's conversion to a part-time status after the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961 This led to the inclusion of the first club to European competition, in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup 1964-65, where he was beaten by Steaua Bucharest 5-0 in aggregate. The club won the Irish League 1964-65 and then became the first Irish League team to win a two-leg European game, beating FK Lyn 8-6 on aggregate in the 1965-66 European Cup. Derry did not complete the next round, as the Irish Football Association (IFA) stated that the ground was not up to standard, after the match played there during the previous round. Derry suspects sectarian motives, as he plays in a largely nationalist city and is therefore largely supported by Catholics. IFA, based on Belfast, is dominated by Protestants and is widely suspected that it is better represented by a traditional trade union team. The relationship between the club and the IFA quickly deteriorated.
There is no significant history of sectarian difficulties in the game in the first 40 years of club history, but in 1969 the Civil Rights campaign was destroyed into communal violence, followed by 30 years of Troubles. Despite the social and political unrest, Derry reached the Irish Cup final in 1971, where he was beaten 3-0 by Distillery. Since the republics surrounding Brandywell see some of the worst violence, many union-backed clubs are reluctant to play there. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) ruled that the zone was unsafe for equipment and by not using other decent local lands, Derry had to go to the Coleraine majority of the union city, more than 30 miles (48 km) away, to play "home" "The game took place from September 1971 to October 1972 when, faced with a diminished crowd (most Derry fans did not want to travel to Coleraine due to the political situation and longer travel) and the monstrous finances, the club officially requested permission to return to Brandywell.Although there are new assessments by security forces concluding that Brandywell is no longer more dangerous than other league pitches and the lifting of a security ban, Derry's proposal falls by a single vote in the hands of his Irish League team.Finally without ground is deemed unsustainable and on October 13, 1972 Derry withdrew from the league in the middle of p the perception that he was forced out effectively.
The club continued as a junior team during flim-flats for 13 years, playing in local leagues Saturday morning, and trying to get back into the Irish League. Each time, the club nominates Brandywell as his chosen land but the Irish League refuses to re-enter. The suspicion of rejection was driven by sectarianism, and believing that it would not get any recognition back, Derry turned his attention elsewhere.
Login into the Irish League
Derry applied to join the revived Ireland League (league in the Republic of Ireland) in 1985 with Brandywell as his home. The move required a special dispensation from IFA and FIFA, but eventually Derry was accepted in the new Premier Division league for 1985, joining as semi-professional. As the stadium is located in a once stubborn republic known as "Free Derry", with a history of skepticism against RUC in the local community, Derry receives special permission from UEFA to serve his own game. The presence of RUC is considered more likely to provoke a problem than help prevent it.
Derry's first game on the new system was a 3-1 win at the Irish Cup over Home Farm of Dublin at Brandywell on September 8, 1985. The return of senior football to Derry attracted a lot of spectators. Later in this season, after turning professional, he won the Irish League First Division Shield with a 6-1 aggregate victory over Longford Town. The following year - 1987 - Derry won the First Division and promotion to the Premier Division, staying there ever since. The club reached the 1988 FAI Cup final, but lost to Dundalk. The following season - 1988-89 - the club was financially forced to return to semi-professional status but Jim McLaughlin's team managed to win a treble; league, League Cup, and FAI Cup. Qualifying for the 1989-90 European Cup, met the previous winner, Benfica, in the first round.
Modern highs and lows
Since 1989, Derry has won the Premier League Division once Ireland - in 1996-97 - but has been runner-up on three occasions. This added three FAI Cups to his tally in 1995, 2002 and 2006, was runner-up in 1994, 1997, and 2008 and has also won six League Cups further.
The club had been hit by financial problems and was on the brink of bankruptcy due to unpaid tax bills in 2000. Extensive fundraising efforts were made by local celebrities and townspeople to save the club from extinction. Derry plays a high profile match against clubs like Celtic, Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and to raise additional money. It helped keep the club in operation, but trouble persisted and Derry almost lost his place in the Premier League in 2003 when it finished ninth and had to fight two relegation two-foot promotions with local rival Finn Harps. Derry won 2-1 on aggregate after extra time at Brandywell and remained at the top, avoiding further damage.
With financial guarantees, the club became the first in Ireland to be licensed by UEFA in 2004. Derry reintroduced professional football and improved his form, having finished second in 2005. The 2005 Derry Cup win also saw the club pass the cross-border Setanta Cup for the first time on in 2006. It entered the 2006-07 UEFA Cup elimination round, beating IFK GÃÆ'¶teborg and Gretna to reach the first round in which Paris faces Paris Saint-Germain; after a 0-0 home draw lost 2-0. Derry finished second again in 2006, but later won the FAI Cup and double League Cup. It qualified for the 2007 Setanta Cup, as well as the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League preliminary round, and was accepted into the restructured Premier Division for 2007. The club had a disappointing league campaign in 2007, finishing seventh despite being the season's favorite. It managed to win the eighth League Cup, though, thanks to a 1-0 win over Bohemians at Brandywell.
The club, with huge debts, was expelled from the Irish League by the FAI in November 2009 for breaching the Participation Agreement and disbanded, but the new Derry club used the name "Derry City" which merged for 2010 - with FAI allowing it to First Division In January 2010 with a new board , the new chairman, Philip O'Doherty is reported to have bought a new kit deal with Hummel. In addition, O'Doherty quoted in the Derry Journal refers to the application to play in the First Division:
On Monday, February 15, 2010, the new Derry City was granted a First Division license by the Independent Club License Committee, allowing the feasibility of competing in the First Division 2010. By the end of October 2010 Derry has won the First Division title and with that, the promotion returns to the top division after winning 1-0 at Monaghan United in the final game of the season.
Derry's top scorer of the season, Mark Farren, who finished with a tally of 20 goals, scored the winning goal against Monaghan before retiring from football for medical reasons as he attempted to fight a benign tumor located in his brain. Farren ended his career as a Derry City legend and his achievements for the club produced the number 18 shirt that was retired with him as a mark of respect for the talented scorer. Farren died of cancer in February 2016.
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Colors and tops
Derry City wore a blue-and-blue Aston Villa Football Club clothing and famous for white shorts for his first season - 1929-30. The colors lasted until 1932, when a white T-shirt with black shorts was adopted. This style was replaced by the now traditional red and white "candystripes" with black shorts in 1934. This style comes from Sheffield United, which wears a pattern and, in particular, Billy Gillespie, a nearby Donegal native. He played for Sheffield United from 1913 to 1932, taking them to the 1925 FA Cup. The most capped club player with 25 appearances for Ireland, he was highly respected in his country that when he left Sheffield United in 1932 to become a Derry-player manager, they changed strip them within two years as a tribute to his career at Sheffield United.
Derry has been wearing red and white stripes since, except from 1956 to 1962, when the club's players wear yellow and black. T-shirts since 1962 have "candystripes" with various thicknesses. This kit has white socks - black socks are originally used and sometimes red if clashes with opposition occur. Similarly, white shorts were adopted for spells in the early 1970s and for 1985. They were still occasionally worn in the event of clashes, such as black socks. T-shirts vary widely from white, navy and green, yellow, white, light blue, and black.
Derry has a wide range of kit suppliers, including Adidas, Avec, ErreÃÆ', Fila, Le Coq Sportif, Matchwinner, Umbro, Spall O'Neills, and, currently, Hummel. The commercial sponsors logo to appear on the front of the shirts has included Northlands, Warwick Wallpapers, Fruit of the Loom, Smithwick, and AssetCo. Logos that appear on the arm include Hotel Trinity, Tigi Bed Head and Tigi Catwalk. For 2007, the local media logo, Q102.9 and Derry News appeared on the back of the shirt just below the neck, along with the Meteor Electrical logo on the front of the jersey.
The club is not wearing the club jersey all year round the Irish League, or for much of the first League of Ireland season. Instead, the emblem of the city appears in club memorabilia such as scarves, hats and badges. The symbols on the arms are the skeleton, the three-tower castle, the cross and the sword St. George. The sword and the cross are the devices of the City of London, and along with the Irish harp embedded in the cross, showing the connection between the two cities - the official name of the city under English law is Londonderry and the city itself was developed by The Honorable The Irish Society, London. The castle is considered an old local Norman built in 1305 by the clan de Burca. The skeleton is believed to be a knight of the same clan who starved to death in the castle's basement in 1332. It is accompanied by a Latin motto, "Vita, veritas, victoria", meaning "Life, truth , victory. "
In April 1986 the club ran a competition in local schools to design a symbol for them. The winning entry was designed by John Devlin, a student of St. Columb's College, and was introduced on May 5, 1986 when Derry entertained Nottingham Forest for a friend, with Liam Nelis and Paul Gormley (on his fifth birthday) acting as a mascot. The summit depicts a simplified version of the city's Foyle Bridge, which had opened 18 months earlier, the traditional red and white stripes of the jersey bordered by thin black stripes, the year in which the club was founded and the football at the center represented the club as a soccer entity. The club name appears in the Impact font.
With the newness of the Foyle Bridge fading over time, it lasted until July 15, 1997, when it was introduced at Lansdowne Road with Derry City and Celtic meetings during a pre-season friendly tournament. Modern symbols also feature centered football, year of establishment, and club names in sans-serif contemporary letters - Industria Solid. The famous red and white stripes are present along with the mass of red color filling the left of the top, separated from the right by the white line. Formerly places of culture or objects associated with the city does not exist in a minimalist design. The peak is always positioned above the heart in a home t-shirt.
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The Derry City base is the municipal Brandywell Stadium, located southwest of Bogside in the Brandywell area of ​​Derry. It is often abbreviated "Brandywell" as well as a local greyhound racing venue, with an oval-shaped track circling the field. Dimensions of pitch size 111 by 72 yards (101 m ÃÆ' â € "66 m). The rightful owner is Derry City Council which allows the land for the club. Because the stadium's health and safety rules have 2,900 seating capacity for the UEFA competition, although it can accommodate 7,700 on normal game days, including terraces. The curved cantilever of all-sitting "New Stand" was built in 1991, while construction at a still-insufficient facility has been delayed many times and has not taken place by the end of the 2016 season.
Derry City's plan to buy the pitch fell after its formation due to the narrow time scale between its foundation in 1928 and the beginning of the season in 1929 and thus Londonderry Corporation (now Derry City Council) was approached for the use of Brandywell which had been used for football until the end of the 20th century. 19. It is approved and the club still operates under the limits of The Honorable The Irish Society stating that Brandywell should be available for community recreation. As a result, the club has no private ownership and, as such, can not develop by itself, by that policy or whether it will be sold to Derry City Council.
Derry City's first game at Brandywell was a 2-1 loss to Glentoran on August 22, 1929. In 1933, the purchase of Bond's Field in Waterside was mentioned, but was considered too far from a fan base that had been built at Cityside, especially in the Brandywell area. It also had a first choice on Derry Celtic's old ground, Celtic Park, but was hesitant at the final decision and the Gaelic Athletics Association bought it ten years later. He also decided not to buy Meenan Park for £ 1,500.
Due to the turbulent political situation of Northern Ireland during the Security Issues and fears for Protestants and trade union traditions visiting the most nationalist city of Derry, Brandywell is not always the home of Derry City. In 1970 and 1971, Derry had to play their "home" relationship with Linfield at Windsor Park in Belfast - Linfield homes. From September 1971 to October 1972 Derry was forced to play all the "home" games at the Showgrounds in Protestant Coleraine mainly, over 30 miles (48 km) away, because the police ruled Brandywell's territory of the republic as too safe to visit unions, which themselves made at least half of Derry City's fanbase at the time. The Brandywell had not seen senior football for 13 years when the Irish Football League upheld the ban at the stadium and Derry decided to leave the league as a result. Only greyhound meetings and junior football are held during this time. Derry's acceptance of the Irish League in 1985 saw the return of the senior game.
In December 2010, the club introduced a new seasonal ticket type credit card system to ensure ticket misuse could no longer occur and also ensured more accurate attendance at matches.
Due to the improvement of the club's ground in Brandywell, Derry City will play their home game of the 2017 season at Maginn Park in Buncrana.
In popular culture
Derry City has made many appearances in popular culture. In the music world, the club was given exposure by the punk band Derry, The Undertones, which had its 1980 hit single cover, "My Perfect Cousin", featuring a Subbuteo figure featuring the colorful Derry City. The video included a front-man group, Feargal Sharkey, kicking and jumping to the head of the ball while wearing a red and white jersey. Similarly, on the cover of his second single, Get Over You , the words "Derry City F.C." can be seen.
The club is also featured on popular television. Due to the fact that it is a Northern Ireland based club playing in the Republic of Ireland league, it often receives broadcaster's attention in both jurisdictions. In the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? was shown the night before Derry's clash with Paris St. Germain in the first round of the 2006-07 UEFA Cup, highlighted that Archie McLeod, the grandfather of Doctor Who actor David Tennant, is a Derry City player. Derry has provided a lucrative entrance fee and has persuaded him from Scotland. Likewise, the feature about the club is run by Football Focus before and after the same UEFA Cup match. Irish television also features a club. Derry City played in the first League of Ireland match ever shown live on television when he visited Tolka Park to play Shelbourne during the 1996-97 season. The game was broadcast on RTÃÆ'Â's Network 2 and finished 1-1 with Gary Beckett score for Derry.
Another medium to host the club is the radio. On April 20, 2005, Derry City appeared in the Blues and Candy Stripes audio documentary on RTÃÆ'â € ° Radio 1's Documentary on One . The documentary was produced after a historic friendly between Derry and Linfield which took place on February 22, 2005 - the first between the two teams since the match on January 25, 1969 in which Linfield fans had to be evacuated from Brandywell. by the police during the break due to civil unrest and bad scenery in the ground. The 2005 match was held as a kind of safety test ahead of a possible possibility both teams, with a social polar fan base, will qualify and be drawn against one another in the Setanta Cup competition in the future.
Awards
- Irish Football League :
- 1964-65: 1
- Irish League Main Division :
- 1988-89, 1996-97: 2
- FAI Cup: 5
- 1988-89, 1994-95, 2002, 2006, 2012
- Irish League Cup: 10
- 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1999-2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
- IFA Cup: 3
- 1948-49, 1953-54, 1963-64
- First Division Irish League: 2
- 1986-87, 2010
- League of Ireland First Division Shield: 1
- 1985-86
- City Cup: 2
- 1934-35, 1936-37
- Gold Cup: 1
- 1963-64
- Four Top Winners: 1
- 1965-66
- Irish News Cup: 1
- 1996-97
- Championship: 1
- 2011
- Senior North West Cup: 16
- 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1938-39, 1953-54, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71
- Intermediate League of Northern Ireland: 2
- 1979-80, 1983-84
- Enda McGuill Cup: 1
- 2007
Recordings
Peter Hutton holds the club record for matches played in Irish League football with 573 competitive appearances since the 1990-91 season. On July 16, 2007, Paul Curran has made the second highest number of appearances for the Irish League club with 518, followed by Sean Hargan with 408 since 1995.
The club's all-time leading scorer is Jimmy Kelly with 363 goals between 1930 and 1951. Since the entry of the club into Irish League football, Mark Farren is Derry's top scorer with 114 goals after 209 competitive appearances for the club between 2003 and 2012. Derry's first goalscorer was Peter Burke at home to Glentoran on 22 August 1929 when the club lost 2-1. Two days later, Sammy Curran had the honor of scoring Derry's first hat-trick, when the club came back from 5-1 down to Portadown, only to lose 6-5 into the final goal. Barry McCreadie was Derry's first goal scorer in the Irish league when he scored in a 3-1 home win over Home Farm on September 8, 1985. Derry's first trick in the Irish League was scored by Kevin Mahon to Finn Harps on 15 December 1985. Derry's league goal the 1000th was printed by Conor Sammon on May 9, 2008 against Shamrock Rovers. A number of international players have also played for Derry.
Derry's record of the Irish League Defeat was to Longford Town in January 1986 - the score was 5-1. The record of the Irish League victory was 9-1 against Galway United in October 1986. The club has never been relegated in the Irish League. Derry is the only League of Ireland team that has completed the treble, in the 1988-89 season. Derry's 5-1 away win against Gretna at Fir Park, Motherwell in the second qualifying round of the 2006-07 UEFA Cup was the biggest away win for the League of Ireland team in European competition. Derry played a record 54 matches throughout the 2006 season, including all competitions. Previously, the record was 49 games played in all competitions during the 1988-89 season that won the treble.
The record of Brandywell's presence in the Irish League system was 9,800 people attending the FAI Cup second round match between Derry and Finn Harps on 23 February 1986. In the Irish League, a crowd of 12,000 people attended the 1929-30 season home game against Linfield..
Supporters
By Irish standards, Derry City has a relatively large and loyal fanbase. The club is regarded as one of the most powerful and most supported teams in the Irish League, and after the club entered the League of Ireland in 1985, a crowd of nearly 10,000 people attended Brandywell for the comeback. Derry's average home attendance of 3,127 was the highest of any team for the 2006 season. The highest attendance was the last night-of-season meeting between Derry and Cork City at Brandywell on Friday 17 November when 6,080 watched Derry win 1-0. Domestically, Derry supporters travel to away games on "bus-load". They gave great support at the 2006 UEFA Cup club - about 3,000 trips to Motherwell and "defended the ballot" as Derry beat Gretna 5-1 at Fir Park, and "about 3,000" went to Paris to see Derry play Paris Saint -Germain at Parc des Princes. During the foot of the house, fans without a ticket are desperate to see the matches watched from a distance while standing at a high vantage point overlooking the Brandywell offered by City Cemetery in Creggan and parked a rented level bus outside the stadium to help them see on the perimeter ground.
The club is known for its community spirit, and supporters have played a key role in the survival and success of the club. When debt brought Derry close to extinction in the 2000-01 season, the local community responded en masse to help save the club. During the club's successful 2006 season, club captain Peter Hutton said:
No one has Derry City F.C. apart from Derry people. Five or six years ago the club fell to its knees, on the verge of getting out of business. No sugar daddy, no billionaire, no Roman Abramovich to save the club. It was the people and town that saved the club. People, fans, ordinary people; they go out and bang on the door to raise money, they go around the pub with a collection of collections, they do what they can to keep the club alive. Derry is a tight spot, a small community, they care about their club and that's why we still have a club. And every bit of success we get from this season is for them.
Likewise, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party and Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume, who is the club's current president, declared in 1998 the club's relationship with the public:
Derry City F.C. has been an important milestone in the life of the community in Derry since its inception in 1928. Throughout the club's history, Candystripes has provided sports outlets for young and older supporters. The history of the club is related to his city. There has been a struggle and marginalization turning to renewal and success. The pride of the people in this club reflects the pride we hold in our city. Derry City's players and supporters are great ambassadors for the city. Today, clubs, like cities, see the future with great expectations. For all his success, Derry City will mean nothing without the people in town.
Support for the club relies heavily on geography and across social boundaries. Fans come from both working class areas, such as the Brandywell area and Bogside, and the more affluent areas of the city, such as Culmore. The Cityside is seen as a traditional club base, especially the Brandywell area, although Waterside is also home to a small number of supporters. The club is supported mainly by the Derry nationalist community. This relationship is debated to rooted primarily in geography, as well as to social, cultural and historical circumstances, as opposed to the club or its fans pushing towards the creation of a particular identity. Indeed, before 1969, more than half of the club's support base came from a sizeable Unionist community living in the suburbs at the time. The onset of the problem made the location of Nationalist Brandywell too dangerous to visit and Unionist support fell into a small minority, in keeping with the rapid depopulation of Unionists from the city as a whole. The wider Protestant community in the city, almost entirely based in Waterside, is largely ignorant, although some unions and loyalists view the club as a symbol of Catholicism and nationalism as a result of sectarian division as support. Joining the Republic of Ireland's league adds to the perception and, occasionally, Protestant hooligans have thrown missiles onto the Derry support bus as they travel to or return from the game across the border. Small nationalist elements in Derry City's support base see football as a means of strengthening sectarian divisions.
With the city becoming a focal point of culture and activity serving the northwestern region of Ireland, support extends beyond the borders of the city and to the surrounding area; Limavady, Strabane in nearby Tyrone County and adjacent Donegal County area contains support. The club has many support clubs, along with ultra fans, and support outside Ireland - especially the natives of emigrating cities. Derry City Chat is a fan-run discussion site. Derry fans shared a rivalry with Finn Harps supporters and sang Undertones' Teenage Kicks as the national anthem.
Player
Current squad
- Starting February 15, 2017
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Sign out with loan status
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Retired number
5 - To respect Ryan McBride
18 - To honor Mark Farren
Training and Medical Personnel
Manager
Note
References
- Ferry, Gary (2008) The Team I Love So Good. Print City.
- Ferry, Gary (2015) 30 Years - This Journey Far. - Print City
External links
- Official website
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