Sirocco Works F.C.

Sirocco Works

Full name	Sirocco Works Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Roc
Founded	1924
Ground	Dixon Park, Belfast
Chairman	Gerry Kirkwood
Manager	Andrew Wallace
League	NAFL Division 1A
2018-19	NAFL Division 1A, 5th
Home colours

Sirocco Works Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. Established in 1924, the club is the longest existing club in all the intermediate and junior divisions in Northern Ireland.^[1] The club currently play matches at Dixon Park in East Belfast. The club also fields a second team in Division 3B of the Amateur League as well as several youth teams.

Club history

The club is historically linked to the Sirocco Engineering Works located on the east bank of the

shipyards. It was one of the biggest employers in Belfast and from this spawned the Sirocco Works Football Club.

The club joined the Amateur League in 1924 and is the longest-serving member of that league, in unbroken membership ever since.

victory as they became the first amateur side to lift this prestigious trophy.

The times following World War II saw the decline of industry in Belfast. Similarly the football club started to struggle in the League. By 1960 the club picked up their last notable honour for the next 20 years, an appearance in the final of the Border Cup. In 1999 came the death knell for the Sirocco Engineering Works as the site was closed to be redeveloped.

Despite the closure of the parent Sirocco engineering plant board members of the football club decided to continue under the Sirocco name.

Recently the club has seen a return to winning ways by winning Division 1B in 2007–08.

Most recently Sirocco won promotion back to 1A in 2016/17 and have been runners up in the 2017/18 Clarence Cup Final and 2018/19 Steel & Sons Cup Final.

Honours

Intermediate honours

• Steel & Sons Cup: 1
  • 1938–39
• Northern Amateur Football League: 8
  • 1926–27, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1947–48
• Clarence Cup: 6
  • 1925–26, 1926–27, 1938–39, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1947–48
• Border Cup: 6
  • 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1941–42†, 1944–45, 1945–46

† Won by 2nd XI

Notes

External links

• Sirocco Works Official Club website
• nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)