Wakehurst F.C.

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Wakehurst
Full name Wakehurst Football Club
Nickname(s) The 'Hurst
Founded 1969
Ground Mill Meadow
Castledawson
Manager Currently Vacant
2014–15 13th

Wakehurst is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in NIFL Championship 2. The club, founded in 1969, hails from Ballymena, although home matches are played at Moyola Park's ground at Mill Meadow. Wakehurst formerly played at the second pitch at the Ballymena Showgrounds, home of Ballymena United, but for 2009/10 this pitch was deemed not to meet the criteria for the Championship, and home games were played at the ground of Tobermore United in Tobermore, County Londonderry, for that season; Wakehurst moved to Castledawson for 2010/11.[1][2] It is the club's intention eventually to return to Ballymena.[3]

Club colours are black, and white (home) and red and white (away).

The current manager is Paul Muir who previously played for Wakehurst, Ballymena United, Lisburn Distillery and Crusaders amongst others after taking over from long-time boss Ian Gregg in May 2015. Muir's assistant is former Motherwell and Ballymena United player Neil Candlish and Stephen McKelvey is in the role of First Team Coach.

The club's reserve side - Wakehurst Strollers - play in Division Two of the Ballymena and Provincial League and are managed by player / manager Jason Connolly who is assisted by Declan O'Boyle and Michael Kerr.

The club played at junior level in the Ballymena & District League and Northern Amateur League until stepping up to intermediate football in 2003.[4][5]

Players

Current First Team Squad

As of June 2015 [6]

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

No. Position Player
Northern Ireland GK Macauley Cairns
Northern Ireland GK Marc Maybin
Northern Ireland DF Kurtis McCartney
Northern Ireland DF Craig McCaughern
Northern Ireland DF Andrew Millar
Northern Ireland DF Karl Steel
Northern Ireland DF Niall Swann
Northern Ireland DF Jordan Walker
Northern Ireland DF Ryan Young
Northern Ireland MF Jake Armstrong
No. Position Player
Northern Ireland MF Gavin Gilmore
Northern Ireland MF Diarmuid Larkin
Northern Ireland MF Andrew Laughlin
Northern Ireland MF Jordan Lemon
Northern Ireland MF Lee McCaughern
Northern Ireland MF Lee McClleland
Northern Ireland MF George Young
Northern Ireland FW Jordon Foster
Northern Ireland FW Tiarnan Rafferty

Honours

Junior honours

  • County Antrim Junior Shield: 1
    • 1989–90

References

  1. ↑ Ballymena Times, Wakehurst forced to play outside Ballymena next season, 15-05-2009
  2. ↑ Homeless Wakehurst need to find a speedy resolution, The Park, p.13, Belfast Telegraph, 30 August 2010
  3. ↑ Wakehurst FC appeal for Council help to end three-year ‘exile’ from Ballymena
  4. ↑ H. Johnstone & G. Hamilton (n.d.) A Memorable Milestone: 75 Years of the Northern Amateur Football League, p. 219
  5. ↑ "Waking up to Wakehurst", NI Football, Issue 13 (2009), p. 24
  6. ↑ http://www.portstewartfc.co.uk/club/150788/Squad

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