Olympia F.C. (Dublin)

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Olympia
Full nameOlympia Football Club
GroundBellevue Lodge
Grand Canal
Inchicore
Dublin
LeagueLeague of Ireland
Leinster Senior League

Olympia Football Club was an

Leinster Junior Cup and Leinster Senior Cup in the same season. In 1921–22 they were also founder members of the League of Ireland
.

History

Leinster Double

In 1917–18, with team that included

IFA Junior Cup final but lost to Raglan.[citation needed
]

Jacobs incident

During the 1919–20 season, played against the background of the Irish War of Independence, Olympia were involved in controversial incident with Jacobs. After a Leinster Senior Cup game, a group of Jacobs players were found guilty of invading the Olympia dressing room. Two Jacobs players received lengthy suspensions from the Leinster Football Association as did an Olympia player when it emerged that Jacobs had been taunted for "playing (British Army) soldiers" in their team.[4]

League of Ireland

In 1921–22, together with Shelbourne, Bohemians, St James's Gate, Jacobs, Frankfort, YMCA and Dublin United, Olympia became founder members of the League of Ireland. Like Olympia, the other seven founding members had spent the 1920–21 season playing in the Leinster Senior League. Olympia, however, spent just two seasons, 1921–22 and 1922–23 in the league. They finished in 4th and 11th place respectively.[5] Olympia also competed in both the 1921–22 and 1922–23 FAI Cups. On both occasions they were knocked out in the first round.[6]

Honours

  • Leinster Senior Cup
    • Winners: 1917–18: 1
  • Leinster Junior Cup
    • Winners: 1917–18: 1
  • IFA Junior Cup
    • Runners Up: 1917–18: 1

Home ground

While playing in the League of Ireland, Olympia played their home games at Belluvue Lodge, near the Grand Canal at Inchicore. This had been the original home ground of St James's Gate.

League of Ireland Stats

Stat Opponent Score Competition Date
Record Win YMCA
Dublin United 		4–1
3–0 		League of Ireland Shield
1921–22 League of Ireland 		27 December 1921
19 November 1921
Record Defeat
Bohemians
 0–8 1922–23 League of Ireland 18 November 1922

Source:[7][8]

Notable former players

Ireland internationals

These former Olympia F.C. players represented

Ireland and/or the Republic of Ireland
at full international level.

References

  1. ^ Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
  2. ISBN 978-0-9571157-2-9
  3. ^ Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
  4. ^ Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
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  7. ^ McSweeney, Niall. A Record of League of Ireland Football 1921-22 to 1984-85. Association of Football Statisticians.
  8. ISBN 1-86223-135-4
    .
  9. ^ Freestaters - The Republic of Ireland Soccer Team 1921-1939 (2007): Donal Cullen
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