Willowfield F.C.
Willowfield is a defunct intermediate football club which existed in Northern Ireland during the inter-war years. The club was connected to the Willowfield Unionist Club.[1]
In the 1927–28 season, it became the first from outside the Irish League to win the Irish Cup since the League's formation in 1890. They defeated Larne 1-0 in the final at Windsor Park. Willowfield had previously reached the Irish Cup final in 1923–24, when they lost to Queen's Island.
The club played at the Willowfield Recreation Grounds (now Gibson Park Avenue), which is now the home of Malone Rugby Club, who acquired it in 1935. It is likely that Willowfield FC folded shortly before this.
Honours
Senior honours
- Irish Cup: 1
- 1927–28
Intermediate honours
- Irish Intermediate League: 1
- 1927–28
- Irish Intermediate Cup: 2
- 1923–24, 1927–28
- Steel & Sons Cup: 1
- 1927–28
- Clarence Cup: 1
- 1935–36
Junior honours
- Irish Junior Cup: 2
- 1906–07, 1907–08
- Beattie Cup: 3
- 1914–15, 1915–16, 1922–23
- County Antrim Junior Shield: 1
- 1916–17†
† Won by Willowfield II
References
- Graham Hamilton (ed.). 100 Years of Football: The History of the County Antrim Football Association (Belfast: County Antrim Football Association, 1988), p. 55
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