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Derry City Football Club is a professional football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland.They play in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of league football in the Republic of Ireland, and are the League of Ireland's only participant from Northern Ireland. [1]
On 22 August 1929, Derry City ran on to the Brandywell turf for the first time in claret and blue shirts with white shorts. McCleery's full-time professionals led Glentoran F.C. by a score of 1–0 at half-time with a goal from Peter Burke – a recent recruit from the Free State Army.
On 24 August 1929, Sammy Curran had the honour of scoring Derry City's first senior hat-trick, as the club came back from 5–1 down against Portadown FC, only to lose 6–5 to a late goal. The club's all-time highest goal-scorer is Jimmy Kelly with 363 goals during a spell of over 20 years at the club between 1930 and the early 1951.
City Cup Top Four Cup Top goalscorer(s) Avg. Att. Division Tier P W D L F A +/- Pts Pos Name Goals 1962–63: Irish League 1 22 8 5 9 34 38 −4 21: 9th RU 1963–64: Irish League 1 22 13 3 6 59 33 +26 29: 3rd W 1964–65: Irish League 1 22 15 5 2 62 32 +30 35: 1st W 1965–66: Irish League 1 22 15 2 5 61 33 +28 32: 2nd W 1966–67: Irish ...
Nobody owns Derry City FC, apart from the people of Derry. Five or six years ago the club was on its knees, on the verge of going out of business. There was no sugar-daddy, no millionaire, no Roman Abramovich to save the club. It was the people and the city who saved the club.
Derry City currently has academy teams at u13, u15, u17 and u19 age groups as well as an under-21 reserve team who play in the Ulster Senior League. These teams have also competed in international youth tournaments, including the Foyle Cup and the Umbro Galway Cup. In 2006, the academy team was victorious in the Umbro Galway Cup.
The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium (Irish: Tobar an Fhíoruisce 1) [2] is a municipal football stadium in Derry, Northern Ireland.It is the home ground of League of Ireland team Derry City F.C., (temporarily) NIFL Championship team Institute, and also to NIWFA Championship Ladies Team Foyle Belles FC.
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