Shelbourne F.C.

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Shelbourne Football Club (Irish: Cumann Peile Shíol Bhroin) is an Irish association football club based in Drumcondra, Dublin, who play in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

Overview

With its first name being associated with its more common nickname, Shels, the club plays its home matches at Tolka Park, in the Dublin suburb of Drumcondra. Founded in Dublin in 1895, Shelbourne F.C.'s colors are primarily red and white, with home jerseys being predominantly red.

In 1904, the club joined the

Irish Football League, which was then an all Ireland competition, before becoming founding members of the League of Ireland in 1921, winning their first title in the 1925-26 season. Shelbourne have won the league 13 times and are one of three clubs to have won both the IFA Cup and the FAI Cup
.

In the 2004/05 European season, Shelbourne became the first Irish club to reach the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Their performances in European competition and former striker Jason Byrne being capped for the Republic of Ireland whilst with the club, gained Shelbourne international exposure. However in the 2023 season, Shelbourne made history as they qualified to the Europa Conference League Play-offs for the first time in their history.

The club lost their Premier Division licence for the 2007 season due to the club's debt situation. Although the club was saved, since then, Shelbourne had mainly played in the second tier of the League of Ireland with short stints back in the Premier Division in 2012, 2013 and 2020. The club were promoted back to the Premier Division in 2021 and have been competing back in the top flight since then.

History

Formation & IFA years: 1895–1920

Shelbourne Football Club was formed in 1895 in the Ringsend area of Dublin by a group of men led by James Rowan. The club took its name from the nearby Shelbourne Road. The club's first pitch was at Havelock Square just behind the north stand at the present day Aviva Stadium.[citation needed]

Shelbourne's second season was their first in competitive competition. Shelbourne played 28 matches, won 25, drew 2 and lost only 1. Their goal tally was 109 for and 15 against. Shelbourne won the principal junior competitions, the

Leinster Junior Cup and League Championship. The club decided to enter the senior ranks for the 1897–98 Season and reached the Leinster Senior Cup Final at their first attempt, only to lose to Bohemians. They also finished runners-up in the Leinster Senior League. The club won their first Leinster Senior Cup in 1899/1900, Shelbourne won the competition again in 1901 and 1904.[citation needed
]

The club made it into the final of the

Belfast Celtic and Glentoran), before Shelbourne's association with the Irish Football Association was to come to an end.[citation needed
]

Establishment of the League of Ireland: 1921–1929

Additional reading: IFA#North-South Split

Following the

Irish war of independence, the IFA reneged on a promise to play the replay in Dublin and scheduled the rematch again for Belfast. Shelbourne refused to comply and forfeited the Cup.[2] Such was the anger over the issue that the Leinster FA broke away from the IFA and formed its own national association, the present-day Football Association of Ireland. Shelbourne became one of the original League of Ireland founder clubs along with Bohemians, St James's Gate, Jacobs, Olympia, Frankfort, Dublin United and YMCA
.

In the opening 1921–22 Season, Shelbourne finished 3rd place behind winners St James's Gate and Bohemians. Shelbourne finished runners-up the following two seasons and won the 1924 Leinster Senior Cup, the reds finished third in the league again in the 1924–25 season before winning the league for their first time the following season in 1925–26. They finished runners-up the following two years before winning the 1928–29 Championship.

Thirties: 1930–1939

Additional reading: Reds United

Having failed to retain the title in 1930, Shels won their third league title in 1931 and were Leinster Senior Cup winners. In 1934 the club got into a dispute with the Free State F.A. when they looked for compensation when the FAIFS arranged a match for the same day as Shelbourne had a match scheduled. In the row that followed, Shels resigned from the League and were then suspended from football for a year by the FAI. The club played no football during the 1934–35 season and spent the 1935–36 season in the Athletic Union League before being re-admitted to the League of Ireland for the start of the 1936–37 season. During the 1935–36 season a team called Reds United, made up of a number of Shels players and backed by Shels personnel, competed in the League of Ireland and finished a respectable fourth. At the end of the season, they resigned from the League to make way for Shels return.

The decade had a happy ending though as success in the FAI Cup finally arrived (many fans had started to believe the club was suffering from a curse). It was in the 1939 cup final that the supposed curse was broken.

Football League, were eventually beaten after a replay thanks to a long-range goal from 'Sacky' Glen. After so many attempts, the blue ribbon
of Irish football made its way to Shelbourne Park for the first time. Official figures put the attendances at 30,000 and 25,000 for the first final and the replay respectively.

Forties: 1940–1949

As the euphoria of the first FAI Cup success wore off, the forties started slowly enough for the Reds, and it wasn't until 1944 that the league championship was won again-for a fourth time, along with the Shield. The title was clinched after an epic 5–3 win over local rivals Shamrock Rovers. Luck was reversed though in the FAI Cup Final as Rovers stopped the Reds from winning the treble. Shels went down 3–2 but felt aggrieved that the referee award them a penalty when it seemed a Rovers defender had handled the ball after it went over the goal-line. The subsequent penalty was missed. Shels won another Leinster Senior Cup in 1946.

Another league title, however, was wrapped up on the last day in 1947 and was again secured against Shamrock Rovers.

The closing of the decade marked the end of an era. In April 1949, Shels drew 2–2 against Waterford in what was the club's final competitive game at Shelbourne Park. The plan was that Shels would build a new stadium in Ringsend. The 1948–49 season also saw Shels win their seventh Shield and fourteenth Leinster Senior Cup.

Fifties: 1950–1959

In 1951, Shels made it to the FAI Cup final where they met

Cork Athletic who had already wrapped up the league. Tommy Carberry had scored in every round for the Reds and did so again in the final, played in front of over 38,900 fans, but it was only good enough to earn a replay which Athletic won. A sixth league title was won in 1953, and then in 1955–56 Shels played their only season in Irishtown Stadium
. The ground, however, was far from complete despite a huge amount of voluntary work being carried out by supporters and offered no shelter for the fans from the elements. Shels were tenants at Tolka Park the following season.

During that season

Manchester United with whom he picked up a European Cup
winners medal in 1968.

Sixties: 1960–1969

Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. in Europe

The early years of the sixties went great for the Reds. Three goal wins over Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk put Shelbourne in the 1960 FAI Cup Final where they beat

Cork Celtic were beaten by a Ben Hannigan goal in a play-off for the league in 1962 and only illness to three key players as a result of vaccinations taken on a League of Ireland representative trip to Italy cost Shelbourne the FAI Cup and a first 'double'
as they went down to Shamrock Rovers in the final despite being red-hot favourites. The FAI Cup was however won the following year and it was a repeat of the 1960 final. A 2–0 win over Cork Hibs.

The commemorative plaque in Tolka Park, detailing the quickest hattrick ever, as scored by Jimmy O'Connor on 19 November 1967.

With this success came the excitement of European club football, Shelbourne played their first European match against

European Cup Winners' Cup but were beaten 5–1 on aggregate. In 1963 Shelbourne won another Leinster Senior Cup. In 1964 the club finally sold their last interest in Irishtown Stadium. Shelbourne won their first European game & tie in the 1964–65 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, after the first leg resulted in a 0–0 draw and the second leg finished 1–1, Shelbourne won a playoff match against Portuguese side Belenenses, the following round they were eliminated 2–0 on aggregate by Atlético Madrid. On 19 November 1967 in a match between Shelbourne and rivals Bohemians, Shelbourne player Jimmy O'Connor set the record for the world's fastest hat-trick in top tier domestic league history. O'Connor scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds[3]
in Dalymount Park. Shelbourne won the Leinster Senior Cup in 1968. In the years that followed, televised highlights of English football began to be broadcast into Ireland and the crowds around most of the league grounds plummeted. Clubs in the league came under huge financial pressure, players left for England at a younger age, grounds became derelict, and media coverage almost disappeared.

Decline in the seventies and eighties: 1970–1989

There was a bright enough start to the seventies as

Flower Lodge-the only time the final was ever played outside Dublin while Shelbourne were eliminated from the UEFA Cup by Hungarians Vasas SC in what would be their last European game for 21 years. Two years later Shels were shocked in the Cup final by amateurs Home Farm. During this time the club's ongoing problems were covered in a ground-breaking RTÉ fly on the wall documentary entitled In My Book You Should Be Ahead. In 1978, Jimmy Johnstone, a European Cup winner with Celtic
in 1967 signed briefly for the club. 'Jinky' only played 9 games for the Reds and the European Cup winner failed to score in any of his appearances.

In 1984, Shels lost out to Shamrock Rovers in the FAI Cup semi-final replay. As the league was to expand to two divisions in the summer of 1985, the bottom four clubs at the end of the 1984/85 season were to be relegated. Needing a win on the last day of the season, Shels found themselves two down at half-time away to

Galway United. However, a heroic comeback ensued and Shels got the three goals to take the points and avoid the drop. But the reprieve only lasted twelve months as Shelbourne were relegated on Goal Difference after finishing level on 13 points with Cork but on −25 goal difference compared to Cork's −21. Shels stay in the First Division was short-lived as they came back up straight away with Derry City. After two decades and more in the doldrums, the grey skies were clearing. Tony Donnelly took over the club in 1989 and started to invest heavily. Shels were out of the derelict Harold's Cross Stadium and taking over Tolka Park. Former Irish international Pat Byrne
was installed as player-manager, and a plethora of new players arrived shortly after to bring back the glory days.

Return to success: 1990–1999

Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. in Europe

The heavy investment in the club by the Donnelly family gave an almost instant return as Shels captured their eighth league title at the end of the 1991/92 season – the first for thirty years – when they won 3–1 away to outgoing champions Dundalk. Despite only needing a draw,

Panathinaikos
and were beaten 5–1 on aggregate. Later that season the Reds won yet another Leinster Senior Cup.

Two seasons later they were hammered 6–0 on aggregate by Icelandic club

Sligo Rovers after Shels had come from two down late on. In the FAI Cup Final against St. Patrick's, Shels were reduced early on to ten men as keeper Alan Gough was sent off, and with no sub keeper, midfielder Brian Flood played seventy minutes in goal. Despite trailing 1–0, Tony Sheridan equalised with a stunning lob in the last couple of minutes to force a replay. With Alan Gough back in goal for the rematch, Shels won the trophy after Gough saved a late penalty and Stephen Geoghegan scored an even later winner. Shels became only the third club to retain the FAI Cup when they defeated Derry City 2–0 in the 1997 final. Shelbourne fell to SK Brann in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Preliminary round.

The scoreboard in Prenton Park, just before the hour mark.

The 1997/98 season brought heartbreak. Shels lost the League Cup Final to Sligo Rovers, the FAI Cup Final to Cork City after a replay, and worst of all, missed out on the league title on the last day of the season, they were also narrowly eliminated from the

Neuchâtel Xamax
.

Glory years, European success & financial implosion: 2000–2006

Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. Seasons
Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. in Europe

After a mediocre first season,

UEFA Cup in the preliminary round by Danish club Brøndby
.

FC Steaua București in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds
.

Under new manager Pat Fenlon the title was missed out on in 2002–03 and Shelbourne were knocked out embarrassingly in the

Steaua Bucharest
, despite holding the Romanian side to a 0–0 draw in the first leg at Tolka Park.

2006 Intertoto Cup
.

2006 saw a change in fortunes for Shelbourne, with 'The Reds' winning the title on the last day of the season on

Fionia Park in Odense but earned a very respectable 1–0 win at Tolka Park, remaining undefeated at home in Europe for 8 games, an Irish record. In 2006 Shelbourne also reached the League of Ireland Cup
final for the first time since 1998 but lost on penalties. In 2006 Shelbourne became a member of the 'European Club Forum'.

However, after ongoing financial problems for Shelbourne during the 2006 season, Pat Fenlon resigned as manager and the vast majority of players left, some for rival clubs, others to British clubs.

Demotion to the second tier: 2007–2011

Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. Seasons

Shels withdrew from the 2007

Waterford United
on the final day of the season.

2011 was a year of mixed fortunes for Shelbourne, a change in the promotion rules allowing the First Division Champions & Runners-up both automatic promotion provided to be beneficial for Shelbourne. 'The Reds' clinched promotion back to the Premier Division thanks to 4–0 home victory against

Sligo Rovers
after the game finished 1–1 after extra time.

Brief return to the top-flight, First Division: 2012–2019

Additional reading:
Shelbourne F.C. Seasons

2012 saw Shelbourne finish eight out of eleven teams on their return to the Premier Division. The club also reached the Cup semi-finals, losing to Derry in a Replay at Tolka Park.[7] However Shelbourne stayed in the top flight for just two seasons, with 'the Reds' finishing bottom of the 2013 Premier Division[8] Alan Matthews was replaced by Johnny McDonnell as manager on 24 May 2013.[9] The 2014 season saw Shelbourne finish second in the First Division, the club thus advanced to a promotion playoff against Galway United. Galway won the two-legged tie, and Shels remained in the First Division. At the end of the 2014 campaign, McDonnell left to manage Drogheda United and was replaced by Kevin Doherty.[10] The 2015 season saw the club finish fourth in the league. A disappointing 2016 campaign ended in a sixth-place finish. Former player Owen Heary took over as manager midway through the season following the resignation of Kevin Doherty.[11] In 2017, Heary's first full season as manager ended in a fourth-place league finish. In 2018, the team qualified for a promotion playoff after a third-place finish. Shels lost in the first round to Drogheda over two legs. In 2019, however, Shelbourne would regain promotion to the Premier Division for the first time since 2013 by winning the first division. They claimed the title with a 3–1 away win over Drogheda at United Park on 14 September 2019.[12]

Return to the Premier Division, relegation and promotion: 2020–21

In 2020, Shelbourne competed in the Premier Division for the first time since 2013. They were condemned to the First Division once again at the end of the 2020 via a promotion/relegation playoff, but secured a return after winning promotion and the 2021 First Division championship on 1 October 2021.[13][14]

Having investigated the purchase of Dundalk F.C. in early 2023,[15] Turkish media company, and owners of EFL Championship side Hull City A.F.C., Acun Medya announced the purchase of Shelbourne in June 2023.[16][17][18] In November 2023, the club announced the restructuring of its shareholdings, with long term supporter and shareholder Mickey O’Rourke acquiring, through TDL Media, the shareholding of Acun Medya.

Stadium

Additional reading: Tolka Park
Aerial view of Tolka Park since redevelopment in 1999.

In 1989 Shelbourne acquired the lease on Tolka Park from Dublin Corporation. Before moving to Drumcondra Shels had most recently been based in Harold's Cross Stadium, earlier they had been housed in Shelbourne Park, Irishtown Stadium and Dalymount Park. Shels had played home games regularly in Tolka during the fifties, sixties, seventies, and early eighties. Before Tolka Park was home to Shelbourne it housed Drumcondra F.C. from 1953 until 1972 when Drumcondra unexpectedly went out of business, vacating the ground. Home Farm were the next tenants in Tolka Park however the club never drew large crowds. When Shelbourne moved into the ground they invested heavily in the stadium, converting it into Ireland's first all-seater stadium and building a new stand behind the Drumcondra end goal in 1999. The first-ever League of Ireland match to be broadcast live on TV was a fixture between Shelbourne and Derry City, staged at Tolka Park during the 1996–97 season. In 2015, the club announced a future move as co-tenants of Dublin City Council-owned Dalymount Park once redevelopment was completed around 2020.[19] In 2021, the redevelopment was planned to conclude by 2025.[20]

In February 2022, the council agreed to examine a proposal for the club to repurchase Tolka Park.[21]

Supporters and rivalries

The club's fanbase is mainly drawn from the

northside of Dublin although there are a number of supporters from the Southside, mainly the Ringsend
area where the club originates from.

'Briogáid Dearg' (Red Brigade) was formed in 2003 and is the club's single

Tranmere Rovers FC. The group gives Shelbourne fans an independent voice, through Red Inc., the longest-running fanzine
in the League of Ireland. Red Inc. was first sold as a sixteen-page publication priced fifty pence for a home league tie against Cork City on 31 January 1999. The 'Shelbourne Supporters' Development Group' was founded in 2006 with the aim of securing badly needed funding from the Shelbourne supporter base. The Group have been promised shares in Shelbourne FC Ltd and representation on the board if it raises a certain amount of money for Shelbourne FC each year.

In October 2012 a Shelbourne FC Supporters' Trust was agreed to be launched by fans. The Trust's name was officially voted as "The 1895 Trust" in celebration of the founding year of the club. The Trust was officially launched in 2013.

Shelbourne shares a rivalry with Bohemians largely because of geographical proximity as both clubs are now located roughly just one mile apart, and also because of their early days in the old Belfast-centered Irish League and the early Irish Free State league. The club also has rivalries with other Dublin side St Patrick's Athletic are arguably their biggest rivals with both sides having a fierce rivalry filling stadiums on derby day. They also have a derby with Shamrock Rovers named the Ringsend derby.

European football

Main article: Shelbourne F.C. in European football

Shelbourne have a long, illustrious history in European competitions, taking on teams such as

Steaua Bucharest
.

Shelbourne first performed on the European stage in the 1962/63 season, taking on

Sporting Lisbon
in the European Cup. From 1995 to 2006, Shelbourne had been ever-present in European competition and enjoyed a considerable amount of success. However, due to the club's recent decline, they are currently unranked in the UEFA Team Rankings and are without any club coefficient points.

Overview

Competition P W D L GF GA
European Cup / UEFA Champions League 20 4 8 8 21 31
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup 17 1 4 12 11 32
European Cup Winners' Cup / UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 10 1 1 8 9 20
UEFA Intertoto Cup 6 3 1 2 6 5
TOTAL 53 9 14 30 47 88

Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Republic of Ireland IRL Conor Kearns
2 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Sean Gannon
3 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Tyreke Wilson
4 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Kameron Ledwidge
5 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Shane Griffin
6 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Jonathan Lunney
8 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Mark Coyle (captain)
9 FW Republic of Ireland IRL Seán Boyd
10 FW Republic of Ireland IRL John Martin
11 FW Scotland SCO Matty Smith
12 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Jad Hakiki
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 MF Republic of Ireland IRL John O'Sullivan
17 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Shane Farrell
19 GK Republic of Ireland IRL Lorcan Healy
20 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Keith Ward
21 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Gavin Molloy
22 FW Republic of Ireland IRL Dean Williams
24 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Lewis Temple
27 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Evan Caffrey
29 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Paddy Barrett
36 FW England ENG Will Jarvis (on loan from Hull City)
67 MF Scotland SCO Liam Burt (on loan from Shamrock Rovers)

Technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Damien Duff
Assistant coach Joey O'Brien
Assistant coach David McAllister
Goalkeeping coach Paul Skinner
Strength & Conditioning Coach Mauro Martins
Physio Mark Cornish
Doctor Anthony Hoban
Kit man Johnny & Graham Watson

Club officials

Owners TDL Media, Brian McGovern, Ricky Walsh, Larry Bass, Closebreak Limited, SMT Trust
Chairman Vacant
Chief Executive Officer Barry Mocke
Licensing & IT officer Liam Ward
Head of Media Darren Cleary
Commercial Director Keith McDarby
Academy Manager Colm Barron
Womens Academy Manager Rory Kirk
Academy Operations Stephen Mulhern
Assistant Academy Manager Aaron Rowe

Source: [citation needed]

Other staff

Position Staff
Event Controller Paul O'Rourke
Safety Officer John Reilly
Equipment manager Graham Watson
Chief Steward Eoin O'Rourke
Merchandise Officer Andrew McGouran
Club Children's Officer Graham Cassidy
Supporters Liaison Officer John Brennan
Stadium Announcer Karl Phillips

Last updated: 16 February 2016
Source: Official Matchday Programme

Notable former players

See also: Category:Shelbourne F.C. players

Notable former managers

See also: Category:Shelbourne F.C. managers

Other teams

Women’s team

In 2015 Shelbourne Ladies merged with

UCD Waves 3–2 in the final at Richmond Park on 1 May 2016.[27] In 2016 Shelbourne won the FAI Women's Cup after defeating Wexford Youths 5–0 in the final.[28] The most notable individual performance to come out of the game was undoubtedly that of Shels' Leanne Kiernan, who scored a hat-trick and picked up the 'player of the match' award for her efforts.[29]

The team won their first league championship when they finished the shortened 2016 season in first place.[30] They qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League with that title. In March 2019 Shelbourne announced a number of steps intended to boost "equality and parity of esteem for all of our players". They dropped the word Ladies from the women's team's name and moved WNL home games from the AUL Complex to the main stadium at Tolka Park.[31] The WNL team are the current 2022 WNL Champions, and will also compete in the 2023 Women's Champions League qualifying rounds.

U-19 team

It was announced on 21 April 2011, by the Football Association of Ireland that there would be the formation of a League of Ireland U19 Division. This giving young players in Ireland the prospect of ultimately breaking into the first teams of League of Ireland clubs.[32]

Schoolboys

Shelbourne have seventeen schoolboy teams competing in the Dublin & District Schoolboy Leagues. Schoolboy teams have participated in numerous Youth Cups worldwide including the

Umbro Galway Cup
.They also have a new u13s league of Ireland sse airtricity schoolboy team.

Shelbourne are involved in a football scholarship programme with Larkin Community College, on Dublin's northside. This scheme is considered to have helped stop the falling enrolment rates, and early leaving of school, in part of Dublin's north inner city.[33]

Amateur team

Shelbourne also has an amateur team playing in the United Churches Football League, Division 1. However, the team started in the Amateur Football League Division 2. They won promotion to Division 1 in 2008 and earned a place in the Premier Division a year later following a playoff victory against Columba Rovers. In 2013 they won the Premier Division with two games to spare. In 2014 the team had silverware again. This time it was the Maher Cup after a 1:0 victory in the final. 2015 saw the team move away from the Amateur Football League to the United Churches Football League, where it remains to date.

Reserve team

The Shelbourne A team took part in the 2010 A Championship and finished sixth in Group 1. The team did not participate in the 2011 edition of the Championship, which was the last edition of the competition.

Honours

Records

Results

  • Biggest League Win:
    • 9–0 vs Pioneers, 16 December 1922
    • 9–0 vs Bray Unknowns, 4 September 1926
  • Biggest League Defeat:
    • 0–9 vs Dundalk, 27 November 1980
  • Biggest FAI Cup Win:
  • Biggest European Win:
    • single tie: 4–0 vs Vėtra home, 24 June 2006
    • aggregate: 5–0 vs Vėtra, June 2006

Goals / scorers

  • Most League goals in a season:
    • 72 (1922–23)
  • Most League goals in a game:
    • 6, John Ledwidge vs
      Jacobs
      , 9–1 home, 10 October 1929
    • 6,
      Jacobs
      , 7–0 home, 6 September 1930
  • Most FAI Cup goals in a game:
  • Top League scorer:
  • Top European scorer:

International caps

Full international caps won by players while with Shelbourne:

Other international caps won by Shelbourne players:

In popular culture

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