Rosemount Rec F.C.

Rosemount Rec
Full name Rosemount Recreation Football Club
Nickname(s) The Mount, The Rec
Ground Islandview Road Playing Fields, Greyabbey
Chairman Trevor McKay
Manager Lee Cathcart
League NAFL Division 1C
2017–18 NAFL Division 1C, 3rd

Rosemount Recreation Football Club (commonly known as Rosemount Rec) is a Northern Irish football club from Greyabbey playing in Division 1C of the Northern Amateur Football League (NAFL). The 2011/2012 season saw the club celebrating 100 years of organised football in Greyabbey. The club finished 1st in Division 2A of the NAFL for the 2016/17 season, which saw them in intermediate football for the first time.

In the 2002/03 season, the club completed a treble of trophies, winning the Down Area Winter Football League, Sittlington Cup and Billy Allen Memorial Shield

The 2012/13 season was also a season of great success, with the club winning Division 2B of the Northern Amateur Football League and the Cochrane Corry Cup

In the clubs last season in the Down Area Winter Football league (2009/10), before joining the amateur league the next season, the club won a double, lifting the Sittlington Cup and the Down Area Winter Football League premier division

The club fields 2 teams, The First Team plays in division 1C of the Northern Amateur Football League, and the 2nd team plays in division 3D

The club reached the Junior Cup final in the 2014/15 season for the first time in their history, although they lost 3-1 to Harryville Homers.

In 2017, the club made history, winnng an Irish cup game for the first time in their history, beating St. Lukes FC in Greyabbey

The club is currently managed by Lee Cathcart, who previously managed Greenwell Star FC and Short Brothers. He managed his first game on 2 December 2017, in a 5-1 home victory over Groomsport F.C..

First Team Squad 2017-18

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

No. Position Player
Northern Ireland GK Steven McKay
Northern Ireland DF Jordan McBride
Northern Ireland DF Michael Foster
Northern Ireland DF George Gamble
Northern Ireland DF Stephen Atcheson (C)
Northern Ireland DF Allan Eccles
Northern Ireland DF Scott Ritchie
Northern Ireland MF Ryan Stewart
Northern Ireland MF Matthew Harper
No. Position Player
Northern Ireland MF Nicky Eccles
Northern Ireland MF Matthew Hall
Northern Ireland MF Jonny Hall
Northern Ireland MF Luke Adair
Northern Ireland FW Dean Annett
Northern Ireland FW Barry Crawford
Northern Ireland FW Scott Shannon

Club Officials

  • Chairman: Trevor Mckay Northern Ireland
  • Secretary: Gary Bailie Northern Ireland
  • Treasurer: Rodney Bailie Northern Ireland
  • 1st team Manager: Lee Cathcart Northern Ireland
  • 1st team Assistant: Mark Cathcart Northern Ireland
  • 1st team Coach: Ryan Shaw Northern Ireland
  • Club Captain: Stephen Atcheson Northern Ireland
  • 2nd team Manager: Kyle Doak Northern Ireland
  • 2nd team assistant: Joe Doak Northern Ireland

Club honours

  • Down Area Winter Football league (3),

-2001/02, 2002/03, 2007/08

  • Billy Allen Memorial Shield (5),

-2002/03, 2003/04, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10

  • Sittlington Cup (5),

-1995/96, 2002/03, 2005/06, 2007/08, 2009/10

-2010/11

-2012/13

  • Cochrane Corry Cup

-2012/13

  • Champions of Down

-1983, 1984, 2014

-2016/17


In 2011 Rosemount Rec released "A Clutch Of Memories", a book written by the Newtownards Chronicle journalist Dennis S. Nash, which covers the history of the club.[1]

The club has a few rivals; Ballywalter, (Division 1B) and Kircubbin (Division 2A) but the club's biggest rivals are Portavogie Rangers (Division 2C)

References

  1. ↑ "New book on football in Greyabbey". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2011.


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