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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.
Season League IFA Cup Gold Cup 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
Furthermore, the highest attendance in the Premier Division was the last-night-of-the-season meeting between Derry City and Cork City FC at the Brandywell on Friday 17 November when 6,080 watched Derry exact some measure of revenge for their defeat in the reverse of the fixture the season before (which incidentally was also the highest ...
Derry City's first game at the Brandywell was against Glentoran on 22 August 1929. The stadium has played host to many notable matches, such as Derry City's 1–0 victory IFK Göteborg on 27 July 2006 in the UEFA Cup first qualifying round. [4] However, current facilities for spectators and media simply cannot cope with the demand for some matches.
Derry City Football Club Women is the women's association football department of Derry City, in Derry, Northern Ireland. [1] It was founded in 2002 by Declan Devine and in 2007 affiliated to the Northern Ireland Women's Football Association; since 2015 it has played in the Women's Premiership.
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.