Ballymoney United F.C.

Ballymoney United Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the Ballymena & Provincial Football League.[1] The club, founded in 1944, hails from Ballymoney, County Antrim and currently plays its home matches at the Ballymoney Showgrounds. Before relegation from the Northern Ireland Football League in 2015, the club played at the Riada Stadium in Ballymoney, which is shared with Glebe Rangers. Club colours are all blue with a white and black away kit. The current manager is Liam Kearney and is one of the youngest managers to take charge of Ballymoney, the Chairman is Noel Lamont who has been chairman for about 6 years.

Ballymoney United
Full nameBallymoney United Football Club
Nickname(s)The Toon
Founded1944
GroundBallymoney Showgrounds
ChairmanNoel Lamont
ManagerLiam Kearney
LeagueBallymena & Provincial Football League
2018–19Ballymena & Provincial Football League, 6th

The clubs most successful period was during the 2000s when they reached the Uefa Champions League final, losing out to Barcelona, they also went onto to win the Irish cup. The club was relegated to NIFL Championship 2 in the 2010–11 season after finishing 13th in Championship 1. In 2015, Ballymoney were relegated out of the football league after only winning two games and not winning one to April. The club decided to join the Northern Ireland Intermediate League.

After returning to the Northern Ireland Intermediate League for the first time since their relegation, the club were crowned champions of the 2015/16 season.

Honours

Intermediate honours

Junior honours
  • Irish Junior Cup: 1
    • 1960–61†

† Won by reserve side

Notable former players
  • Jimmy Kelly

References
  1. "Ballymoney Chronicle". Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2015-08-11.


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