University College Dublin AFC

The University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin Association Football Club (short UCD or UC Dublin) is the football team of University College Dublin called the Irish National University in Dublin, Ireland. The men's team of UCD participates in the play mode of the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and is the only university team in Western Europe, which takes place in a highest national professional league. The equally successful footballers, known as UCD Women's Soccer team will take part in the game operation of the respective highest high school as well as ladies league.

Gentlemen

By 1983 the team a purely amateur team of students from the University of Dublin and after the opening of the first team, despite participation in the game operation of the Irish professional league is a big part of the players of students, alumni asked. For the players, there is always the possibility, next to the football games to earn a college degree. How played in the 1950s, the multiple Irish Minister and presidential candidate 1990, Brian Lenihan during his studies at UCD.

History

UCD was founded in 1895 as the Catholic University Medical School, Cecilia Street Football Club at the still independent Catholic University Medical School, after its inclusion in the newly formed University College Dublin UCD has been renamed. A first major success was winning the 1914 University Championships of Ireland. One year after the founding of the League of Ireland UCD had already recorded together with the Shamrock Rovers in this 1922 but was because most of the players were at the beginning of the season during the holidays and therefore no team could be mustered, even before the start of the gaming operation again excluded. The next opportunity for inclusion in the highest division offered until more than half a century later.

1935 moved into the UCD Belfield Park, which was used until the beginning of the current season as a home ground. Since you play in the new stadium " UCD Bowl ," which is also used by the rugby team of the University.

In 1970 UCD into the then League of Ireland B called highest amateur class in Ireland. The team now had some class, so there played the early 1970s, the subsequent 70 -fold Irish international Kevin Moran in Dress of the College. This meant that UCD until the 1980s, often invitation tours mainly conducted in Asia.

End of the 1970s also came the great boom for UCD; 1978 as a team from Cork became insolvent, the League of Ireland UCD offered the vacant starting place in the league. In the first years of UCD was unsuccessful and was never better than on the fourth last of the 16 seats complete season. Therefore, in 1983 the rule was repealed, only that current students were allowed to be included in the team. Immediately the success came in the form of profit 'Cup in 1983/84. 1984/85 achieved fourth place in the Irish championship, but a year later the descent of the Premier in the First Division followed with only eight points. In 1989, one on, but in 1990 again immediately. It took until 1995 until UCD could settle in the upper house. 2003 rose from UCD again, but increased due to the change of the season on a calendar year in the same year 2003 again.

European Cup participations

UCD has been able to advance twice in European competitions in 1984 in the European Cup Winners' Cup, where in the first round after a goalless home draw unhappy with a 0-1 away at Everton, who won this cup competition and the English champions this season, eliminated. 2000 failed to UCD Velbaschd Kyustendil Bulgaria in the first round of the Intertoto Cup only because of less geschossener away goals after two draws.

Achievements

  • Irish Cup ( 1) 1983/84
  • World Champion for university teams ( 1) 1987

Ladies

The women of the UCD participate with two different teams at both the WSCAI Premier Division, the top division for university women's teams, as well as on the DWSL (Dublin Womens Soccer League) Premier League, the top division for normal women's teams in the West of Ireland. After the period during which both competitions the team WSCAI winter team and the DWSL Women's League summer team is called, the summer team is also made ​​up primarily of current and former students of UCD.

A first official female football players team at University College Dublin was founded in 1966 /67 but did not occur until 1983 and 1984 in the first two edition of the Inzetvarsity cup, a cup competition for Irish University Cup for women's teams in appearance than the team each only lost in the final. Since 1992, plays in the top division of the University League, in the 1990s three championships could be won; the 1994/95 season could even be graduating to drop a point or goal.

2002 then the summer team was formed to participate in the regular competitions for women can. In the first three years of existence in each case of the Republic of Ireland Women's Cup was won. Furthermore, the team between 2003 and 2006 was four times in a row champion.

This success qualified UCD in 2003, 2004 and 2005 for participation in the UEFA Women's Cup, where the footballers from Dublin but were eliminated in the first round always.

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