Dungiven Celtic Football Club is an intermediate-level football club playing in the

Northern Ireland Intermediate League The Northern Ireland Intermediate League is an amateur intermediate league based in the north-west region of Northern Ireland. As one of the leagues in the 4th tier of Northern Irish football, the league champions can be promoted to the NIFL Prem ...

in Northern Ireland. The club is based in Dungiven, County Londonderry.

History

Dungiven Celtic were founded following a succession of clubs in the area in County Londonderry. Players from Dungiven were going to play for nearby

Feeny Feeny () is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is between Dungiven and Claudy. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 690. Feeny lies just inside the boundary of the Sperrins Area of Outstanding Natural Beau ...

F.C. Dernaflaw Rovers were then founded as an ad-hoc team for cup competitions to keep players within the village. In 1968, players from Dernaflaw Rovers wanted to join the Derry and District Sunday Football League, which resulted in the formation of Dungiven Celtic. The club played their first match at the

Brandywell Stadium The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium ( ga, Tobar an Fhíoruisce ) is a municipal football stadium with an adjoining greyhound racing track in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of League of Ireland team Derry City F.C. and (temporari ...

wearing red and white stripes as their green and white hooped jerseys had not arrived in time. They set up their first youth team in 1993. The club has close relations with

Dungiven GAC St Canice's GAC Dungiven ( ga, Cumann Chainnigh Naofa Dún Geimhin) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is part of Derry GAA. It currently caters for Gaelic football and Ladies' Gael ...

, the village's

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include t ...

club, with several of Dungiven Celtic's players concurrently playing Gaelic football at Dungiven GAC. In 1978, they joined the newly established

and won their first intermediate trophy in the

Craig Memorial Cup The Craig Memorial Cup, also known as the William Craig Memorial Cup is an intermediate football competition in Northern Ireland run by the North West of Ireland Football Association. The competition culminates in the final which has traditionall ...

in 1984. In 2003 they won the Northern Ireland Intermediate League for the first time; they retained the title the following year and won it again in 2006 and 2009. They also compete in the

Foyle Cup The Foyle Cup is a youth soccer tournament held every year in Derry City, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Along with the Milk Cup, which takes place around the same time, The Foyle Cup is one of Ireland and indeed Europe's premier youth tour ...

. Playing in the Northern Ireland Intermediate League, they enter the

Irish Cup The Irish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly referred to as the Irish Cup (currently known as the Samuel Gelston's Whiskey Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) is the primary football knock-out cup competition in Northern Ireland. Ina ...

Ground

Dungiven Celtic first started playing on a pitch near the local school which later became the pitch of the Gaelic football team when Dungiven Celtic left. They then moved to Ballyguddin, which they rented from the council, before eventually purchasing and resurfacing it in 2004.

Honours

Intermediate honours

: 4 **2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09 *

: 1 **1983–84

References

External links

Club web site
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