Ballinamallard United

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Ballinamallard United
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Basic data
Surname Ballinamallard United FC
Seat Ballinamallard , Northern Ireland
founding 1975
Colours blue
Board Tom Elliott
Website ballinamallardfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach Harry McConkey
Venue Ferney Park
Places 2000
league NIFL Championship
2019/20 2nd place
home
Away

The Ballinamallard United FC is a football club from the Northern Irish village Ballinamallard (near Enniskillen ). The club played in Northern Ireland's top football league for several years until they were relegated in 2018 .

history

Ballinamallard United was founded in its current form in 1975. First, the club played in the amateur leagues of the regional football association Fermanagh & Western FA and rose there by 1982 from fourth to the top division. For the 1990/91 season the club joined the league in the system Northern Irish Football Association , where he was first in the third-rate Division B took. 2003 succeeded for the first time promotion to the second highest league, where you could hold until 2005. From 2009 Ballinamallard United played second class again by restructuring the league system.

In 2012, the club rose to first place in the top Northern Irish league for the first time. No other club from Northern Ireland's most populous County Fermanagh had previously played first class. In the first season of 2012/13 , they only just failed to qualify for the European competition with a fifth place. In the following years, the club took part in the relegation playoffs, in which the six poorly placed of the twelve teams compete against each other. In 2016 Ballinamallard United had to play the second worst team in the playoffs in the relegation against the second division club Institute FC , but was able to avert relegation. In 2018 they were relegated as the last of the playoffs behind Carrick Rangers FC tied on points. After six years of membership in the first division, relegation to the second division took place for the first time.

In 2019 Ballinamallard United reached the final of the Northern Irish Football Cup for the first time . With the Dungannon Swifts and Warrenpoint Town FC , the club had defeated two teams from the top division on penalties as a second division team in the course of the competition . The final at Windsor Park National Stadium was lost 3-0 to first division club Crusaders FC .

Placements

Placements since promotion to the first division in 2012 (after the playoffs):

season league hierarchy placement Individual proof
2012/13 IFA Premiership I. 5
2013/14 NIFL Premiership I. 10
2014/15 NIFL Premiership I. 9
2015/16 NIFL Premiership I. 11
2016/17 NIFL Premiership I. 10
2017/18 NIFL Premiership I. 12
2018/19 NIFL Championship II 5
  • Participation in relegation games against relegation
  • Relegation to the NIFL Championship

    • Known players

    Web links

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b c d e Information about Ballinamallard United on the homepage of the Northern Irish Football League ; Last accessed on May 3, 2020 (in English).
    2. ↑ a b History of Ballinamallard United FC on the club's homepage ; Last accessed October 31, 2017 (in English).
    3. ↑ a b Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2017/2018 ; Last accessed on August 1, 2018 (in English).
    4. ↑ a b Mark Sterling: Irish Cup final: Crusaders 3-0 winners over Ballinamallard. In: bbc.com . May 4, 2019, accessed May 3, 2020 .
    5. ↑ Irish Cup final: Crusaders v Ballinamallard 'still seems a bit surreal' - Clarke. In: bbc.com . May 2, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 .
    6. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2012/2013 ; Last accessed on October 31, 2017 (in English).
    7. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2013/2014 ; Last accessed on October 31, 2017 (in English).
    8. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2014/2015 ; Last accessed on October 31, 2017 (in English).
    9. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2015/2016 ; Last accessed on October 31, 2017 (in English).
    10. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2016/2017 ; Last accessed on October 31, 2017 (in English).
    11. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Results of the Northern Irish Leagues 2018/2019 ; Last accessed on May 3, 2020 (in English).
    12. ↑ Profile of Alvin Rouse on national-football-teams.com , accessed on May 3, 2020.