Kilkenny City A.F.C.

The Kilkenny City Association Football Club is a football club established in 1966 from the Irish city of Kilkenny. The club was known until the late 1980s as EMFA and has already played under that name since 1985 in the League of Ireland. In early 2008, the club withdrew because of financial difficulties from the game operating the league and now participates only in regional competitions.

1966, the club was founded by the merger of two smaller football teams, both in each case after the place where they played, named; of an Emmet Street, the other Fatima Avenue. The resulting from the merger club called Emmet street and Fatima Avenue Football Club EMFA short. Under this name, the club has also been included in the reform of the League of Ireland in the newly created First Division, the lower season in 1985, where the club except for the seasons 1997/98 and 2000/ 01, the only times of the excellence, also remained.

The only successes of the club on in this lower league reach: 1987, while still a EMFA, they won the First Division Shield Cup, a cup competition for the teams of the First Division and 1997/ 98, after which in 1989 took place renaming in Kilkenny City was the club champion of the First Division.

Achievements

  • Winner of the First Division Shield Cup 1987
  • Master of the First Division in 1997/98
  • Irish football team
  • County Kilkenny
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