Wexford Youths

Wexford FC
Basic data
Surname	Wexford Football Club
Seat	Newcastle (Ireland)
founding	2007, 2017
resolution	2017
Colours	Pink, black
president	Mick Wallace
Board	Joseph Wallace
Website	wexfordfc.ie
First soccer team
Head coach	Brian O'Sullivan
Venue	Ferrycarrig Park at Wexford
Places	2,500
league	League of Ireland First Division
2019	First Division , 10th place
home Away

The Wexford Football Club is a 2017 established a semi-professional football club from the Irish town of Wexford . Until 2017 the club existed under the name Wexford Youths . This club was founded to fill a vacant license for the First Division of the League of Ireland and has therefore been involved in the operations of the second division of the Irish professional league since it was founded in 2007.

history

Successful youth teams existed under the name Wexford Youths. When Dublin City went bankrupt and Limerick FC was denied a license in the summer of 2006, two starting places in the Football League of Ireland became vacant, initiatives to establish clubs in various Irish cities to take these places. Ultimately, however, Wexford Youths and Limerick 37 were the only ones who could meet the new, stricter licensing conditions.

The concept of the club provides for the team to almost exclusively consider former youth players as well as players from the surrounding area, County Wexford . The stadium has been under renovation since 2003, so the club has been playing in Ferrycarrig Park in northwest Wexford, which currently has 450 seats, since 2017.

In the first season, the club, which plays in home games in adoration for Juventus Turin with black and white striped jerseys, was only able to occupy ninth and penultimate place in the second Irish league. In the following years, the youths achieved a maximum of midfield placements, until 2015 with the surprising first place, the direct promotion to the top Irish league, the Premier Division (then Airtricity League), succeeded. Here, however, Wexford was not very enthusiastic and took 11th place and thus the relegation place - also thanks to a catastrophic away record - at the end of the season. In the relegation, Wexford won 2-0 in the home game against Drogheda United , but lost this lead in the second leg at United Park and lost 3-0. After financial problems, the club dissolved after relegation in early 2017 and was re-established as Wexford FC.

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)

Individual evidence

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4. ^ Change at Wexford FC as they drop the 'Youths' and unveil new club crest