Chimney Corner F.C.

Chimney Corner
Full name	Chimney Corner Football Club
Founded	1952
Ground	Allen Park, Antrim
Capacity	1,000 (106 seated)
Manager	Mark Butler
League	Ballymena & Provincial Football League
Home colours	Away colours

Chimney Corner is a

Ballymena & Provincial Intermediate League. The club, founded in 1952, hails from Antrim

and plays its home matches at Allen Park. Club colours are red and white. The current manager is Mark Butler. They have a large youth set-up which was founded for the 2005–06 season.

The club joined the

IFA Interim Intermediate League, but the club gained admission to the Championship in 2009, when it was split into two divisions (Corner entering Championship 2). The club remained at this level until 2014, when they resigned to join the Ballymena & Provincial League

.

In recent years the club has struggled in the third tier of Northern Irish football, finishing bottom of Championship 2 in

High Court ruling, and Irish Football Association rules governing the relegation of a club from Championship 2, when no lower regional league champions apply for membership of the Championship. In the 2012–13 season, relegation was avoided when Newry City folded after the season began, leaving the league system a club short. In the 2011–12 season, none of the four regional league champions applied for Championship entry, so Corner were spared relegation.^[1]

They were also saved from relegation in the 2010–11 season when

High Court, but it was dismissed. Tandragee Rovers were crowned champions of the division instead, but did not apply for entry to Championship 2.^[2]^[3]

If Dollingstown had won their case they would have been promoted to Championship 2, with Corner being relegated.

Before the 2014–15 season, however, the club resigned from the Championship and accepted a place in the Ballymena & Provincial Intermediate League.[4]

Intermediate honours

Irish League B Division: 2
- 1984–85, 1998–99
Irish Intermediate Cup: 4
- 1967–68, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1996–97
Steel & Sons Cup: 4
- 1962–63, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1996–97
B Division Knock-out Cup: 1
- 1986–87
Northern Amateur Football League: 5
- 1961–62, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75
Clarence Cup: 2
- 1955–56, 1969–70
Border Cup: 7
- 1958-59, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1974–75

References

^ "Corner aim to keep 'Cam' in relegation struggle". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
^ Dollingstown FC case 'could go to European court'
^ Dollingstown disgust after club loses in court
^ "Corner step down from Championship football". Antrim Times. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.

External links

[1] "Corner aim to keep 'Cam' in relegation struggle". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2012.

[2] Dollingstown FC case 'could go to European court'

[3] Dollingstown disgust after club loses in court

[corner-4] "Corner step down from Championship football". Antrim Times. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.

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