Glenavon F.C.
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| Full name | Glenavon Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1889 | ||
| Ground | Mourneview Park, Lurgan Co. Armagh | ||
| Capacity | 5,000[1] | ||
| Chairman | Adrian Teer | ||
| Manager | Marty Quinn | ||
| League | IFA Premiership | ||
| 2007/08 | 12th | ||
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Glenavon F.C. is a Northern Ireland football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Lurgan and plays its home matches at Mourneview Park. Club colours are blue and white.
In August 2008, the club appointed a new manager, Stephen McBride, a former Northern Ireland international and a hugely popular Glenavon player during his footballing career, playing for the club during the 1990s. McBride's reign lasted just seven months until he was relieved of his managerial duties with Glenavon languishing at the bottom of the IFA Premiership. The Director of Football, Alan Fraser, was also relieved from his duties.[2][3] Glenavon are now onto their fourth manager in the space of two seasons and have just appointed Marty Quinn on a three-and-a half-year contract. The club chairman is Adrian Teer.
Glenavon was the first provincial club to win the Irish League title (1951-52) and also the first provincial club to do the league and cup double (1956-57). Glenavon has had a number of talented and famous players, none more so than Wilbur Cush and Jimmy Jones, who were to the fore in "the glory years" of the Fifties. The success of the 1950s is still the benchmark at this Lurgan club, the closest the club have come to achieving a league success since came in the 1993-94 season, when but for two late goals in the final match Glenavon would have been crowned champions. The club's most recent success's have been League runner's up 2001-02, Irish Cup winners 1991-92 and 1996-97.
European record
Glenavon achieved some notable results in Europe in the 1990s. In the 1992-93 season, they drew both legs of their Cup Winners Cup tie with Royal Antwerp and lost on penalties. In 1995-96 they reached the first round proper of the UEFA Cup (the last Irish League club to do so), and were beaten by Werder Bremen.
Stadium
Mourneview Park is now considered one of the best grounds in the Irish League[citation needed]. Along the side of the pitch runs the Geddis Stand (holds roughly 1700) and on the other side the newly built Glenfield Road Stand (holds roughly 2000). One end of the ground has the Crescent Stand (400 seats, and standing area), and at the other end the Hospital End terracing.
Honours
Senior honours
- Irish League: 3
- 1951/52, 1956/57, 1959/60
- Irish Cup: 5
- 1956/57, 1958/59, 1960/61, 1991/92, 1996/97
- Irish League Cup: 1
- 1989/90
- City Cup: 5
- 1920/21, 1954/55, 1955/56, 1960/61, 1965/66
- Gold Cup: 4
- 1954/55, 1956/57, 1990/91, 1997/98
- Ulster Cup: 3
- 1954/55, 1958/59, 1962/63
- Floodlit Cup: 2
- 1988/89, 1996/97
- County Antrim Shield: 2
- 1990/91, 1995/96
- Mid-Ulster Cup: 17
- 1897/98, 1901/02, 1904/05, 1906/07, 1908/09, 1910/11, 1924/25. 1925/26, 1930/31, 1932/33, 1937/38, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1990/91, 1998/99, 2004/05
- North-South Cup: 1
- 1962/63
Intermediate honours
- Irish Intermediate Cup: 3
- 1908/09, 1911/12, 2004/05
- George Wilson Cup: 1
- 1963/64†
- Mid-Ulster Cup: 5
- 1947/48†, 1957/58†, 1965/66†, 1971/72†, 1976/77†
- Bob Radcliffe Cup: 1
- 1990/91†
† Won by Glenavon Reserves
Junior honours
- Irish Junior Cup: 1
- 1897/98
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable managers
Managers
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References
- ^ www.worldstadiums.com
- ^ "Club Statement". Glenavon F.C. 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "Glenavon sack McBride and Fraser". BBC Sport. 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
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