Shamrock Rovers

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Shamrock Rovers FC
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Basic data
Surname Shamrock Rovers Football Club
founding 1901
Colours green and white
president Jonathan Roche
Website shamrockrovers.ie
First soccer team
Head coach IrelandIreland Stephen Bradley
Venue Tallaght Stadium , Dublin
Places 5,947
league League of Ireland
2019 2nd place
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The Shamrock Rovers Football Club ( Irish : Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige ) is a football club from the Irish capital Dublin, founded in 1901 . The club is both record champions and record cup winners of the Republic of Ireland. Only local rival Bohemians has been a member of the League of Ireland longer, if only for a year .

history

The club was founded in Dublin in 1901 and is named after Shamrock Avenue in Dublin, where the second meeting that led to the club's founding took place. The first two years the Rovers only played friendly games, but immediately won the Dublin City Championship in their first league season in 1904/05. In 1907, however, they were excluded from league operations because of the lack of a suitable playing surface. It wasn't until 1914 that the Rovers played in a league again. In 1921 they missed the founding of the Football League of Ireland and stood for the first time, still unsuccessfully, in the final of the Irish Cup. But already in the following season 1922/23 they came into the league and directly won the championship.

This was followed by many successful years in which the Rovers always competed for titles and won many. In the 1940s to 1970s, the rovers were the most popular with viewers, with an average of 20,000 in the league and 40,000 for national and European cups. In 1967 the Rovers played as the Boston Rovers for a season in the United Soccer Association's predecessor league of the North American Soccer League . At the end of the 1970s there was a first minor crisis under coach Johnny Giles , but it soon ended. Between 1983 and 1987 the Rovers dominated the league, they won four championships in a row and three times the cup during this time.

In 1987, Glenmalure Park Stadium was sold as building land by the Kilcoyne family, who had owned the Rovers since the 1970s. Since then, the Rovers have been homeless and usually play little success in changing stadiums, only in 1994 they managed to win a championship again. When trying to build a new venue in the Dublin suburb of Tallaght , the club took over so strongly at the beginning of the new millennium that it was even temporarily insolvent in 2004/05 and was forcibly administered. Only the financial aid of a fan initiative called 400 Club could save the club from dissolution, but not prevent relegation to the First Division in 2005 . The administration of County South Dublin finally took over the construction of the stadium, which opened in 2009. In the 2006 season, the team managed as champions of the First Division again to rise to the Premier Division.

The Tallaght Stadium mentioned above was moved into in 2009. It currently has a capacity of 3500 after the first construction phase was completed in March 2009. After completion of the second construction phase (opposite stand) the capacity will reach 7,000 spectators.

In the 2011/12 season Shamrock Rovers became the first Irish team to reach the group stage of the UEFA Europa League and are also the first Irish team to reach the group stage of a European Cup. In the play-offs, the Serbian representative FK Partizan Belgrade was defeated. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Dublin, a 2-1 win after extra time in the second leg caused the surprise.

successes

  • Irish Cup Winner (25)
    • 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1978, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2019

Trainer

literature

  • Eoghan Rice: We Are Rovers - An Oral History of Shamrock Rovers. 2002; ISBN 1-84588-510-4

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