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Banbridge Town Football Club is an intermediate
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club from
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playing in the
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. The club, founded in 1947, hails from
Banbridge Banbridge ( , ) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Bann and the A1 road (Northern Ireland), A1 road and is named after a bridge built over the River Bann in 1712. It is situated in the Civil parishes in Ireland, c ...
,
County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
and plays its home matches at Crystal Park. Club colours are red and black. In 2014, the club merged with Banbridge A.F.C.Banbridge Town AFC are in Mid Ulster Reserve Championship. Banbridge Town AFC Reserves are in Mid Ulster Reserve 3 http://www.BTFC.club/
Banbridge Leader
/ref> The 2016/17 season saw Banbridge Town’s reserve team win the South Down Development League. The club was managed by
Frankie Wilson Francis Wilson (26 July 1970 – 28 October 2022) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, footballer and manager. During his playing days he lined out for several clubs including Crewe United, Cliftonville and Omagh Town. He also represented Lámh ...
from 2021 until his passing in 2022.


Current squad


Honours


Senior honours

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Mid-Ulster Cup The Mid-Ulster Cup is a senior football competition in Northern Ireland run by the Mid-Ulster Football Association (founded 2 April 1887). The competition has historically featured teams based in County Armagh, east County Tyrone, and west Count ...
: 5 **1948–49, 1949–50, 1958–59, 1973–74, 1979–80


Intermediate honours

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Irish League B Division The NIFL Premier Intermediate League is the third division of the Northern Ireland Football League, the national association football league in Northern Ireland, and the highest intermediate division in Northern Ireland, occupying level three in ...
: 1 **1955–56 *
Irish Intermediate Cup The Irish Intermediate Cup is a Northern Irish football competition for teams of intermediate status, including NIFL Premiership reserve sides. It is a straight knock-out tournament and is currently sponsored by McCombs Coach Travel. The curre ...
: 1 **1985–86 *
George Wilson Cup The George Wilson Memorial Cup is a competition open to the reserve football teams of member clubs of the NIFL Premiership. Initially it was open to all members of the B Division, both "attached and unattached" (i.e. reserve sides and independen ...
: 1 **1976–77 *Louis Moore Cup: 2 **1955–56, 1967–68 *
Bob Radcliffe Cup The Bob Radcliffe Memorial Cup is an intermediate football competition in Northern Ireland run by the Mid-Ulster Football Association. It was introduced in 1978. The competition culminates in the final which has traditionally been played on Boxing ...
: 3 **1980–81, 2010–11, 2018–19 *Alan Wilson Memorial Cup: 1 **1986–87


References


External links


Banbridge Town FC Website
Association football clubs established in 1947 Association football clubs in Northern Ireland Association football clubs in County Down 1947 establishments in Northern Ireland NIFL Premier Intermediate League clubs
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