Cliftonville Cricket Club was a

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club in

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, playing in the

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. The club was formed as Enfield in 1870, using a pitch in Clifton Park, now Clifton Park Avenue in north

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, disbanded in 1873, and reformed in 1874. In 1880, the club adopted its present name and moved to the

Cliftonville Cricket Ground Cliftonville Cricket Ground was a sports ground in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was previously used for cricket, football and hockey, hosting a football international in 1887, but was closed following sectarian attacks in 1972. It is now owned ...

on the Cliftonville Road, where it played until 1972. In that year, the club was forced to vacate the ground after a series of sectarian attacks against members and the looting and burning of the clubhouse by a hostile mob. The 1973 season was played at

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, 1974 at Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, and in 1975 the club found a permanent base at

Mallusk Grange of Mallusk (from Irish: ''Maigh Bhloisce'', meaning 'Bloisce's plain), or Mallusk, is a village and townland (of 933 acres) in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Mallusk is within the urban area of Newtownabbey, and it is also within the Antr ...

. In 1979, Cliftonville merged with Greenisland Cricket Club (founded 1930), continuing to play at Mallusk until a move to new facilities at

Greenisland Greenisland is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies 7 miles north-east of Belfast and 3 miles south-west of Carrickfergus. The town is on the coast of Belfast Lough and is named after a tiny islet to the west, ''the Green Island' ...

in 1990. In 2007, however, the owners of the Greenisland pitch, Greenisland War Memorial Sports Club, decided to replace the cricket pitch with an artificial hockey pitch and for the 2008 season, Cliftonville had to play all its matches away from home. Since 2009, the club has returned to Mallusk. In 2017, the club merged with Academy Cricket Club to form a new club called Cliftonville Academy Cricket Club.News Letter
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Honours

: 6 (1 shared) **1920, 1926, 1938, 1995, 1996 (shared), 1997 *

NCU Challenge Cup The NCU Challenge Cup, also called the NCU Senior Challenge Cup and the NCU Senior Cup, is the most important provincial cricket knock-out cup of the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland. The competition began in 1887, with eleven clubs participating in ...

: 2 **1896, 1922 *

NCU Junior Cup The NCU Junior Cup is a provincial cricket knock-out cup of the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland. The competition began in 1891 and is open to teams playing in the Sections 2 and 3 of the NCU Senior League and Section 1 of the NCU Junior League (which ...

: †9 **†1893, †1895, †1899, †1910, †1912, †1920, †1930, †1956 (shared), †1961 † Won by 2nd XI (originally known as Enfield)

References

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