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Cliftonville Ladies F.C.
Cliftonville Ladies Football Club is a women's association football club from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The club is the women's team of Cliftonville F.C., Cliftonville, and plays in the Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland), Women's Premiership, the top tier women's football league of Northern Ireland Football League, Irish League. Cliftonville have won their first Irish League Women's Premiership title in 2022 Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland), 2022, and made their debut in the UEFA Women's Champions League in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League, 2023–24 season. History Background On June 18, 1895, Cliftonville F.C., Cliftonville's home ground, Solitude (football ground), Solitude, hosted a match between two sides formed by British Ladies' Football Club players, a game that has since been recognized as the first women’s association football match to take place in Ireland; four days later, on June 22, the British Ladies' played their second match in Belfast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solitude, Belfast
Solitude is a Association football, football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the oldest football stadium in Ireland, and the home ground of Ireland's oldest football club, Cliftonville F.C., Cliftonville. The stadium holds 6,224, but is currently restricted to 2,530 under safety legislation. The stadium was built in 1890 and has undergone several renovations. In 2002, a new stand was built at one end of the ground to house visiting supporters, and in 2008, a new stand was completed behind the goal at the east end of the ground. A synthetic 3G pitch was installed to replace the previous grass surface in 2010. History Solitude was opened in 1890 after Cliftonville moved across the road from Oldpark Avenue. The ground holds the distinction of having the first ever penalty in International football (soccer), Football taken there. Previously consisting of two pitches (the second of which was sold off and now contains housing), Solitude is the oldest football ground in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
