Ulster University Football Club, referred to simply as Ulster, is a

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, intermediate football club playing in the

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. It is affiliated with

Ulster University Ulster University (; Ulster Scots: or ), legally the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU. It i ...

. The club was formerly known as Ulster University at Jordanstown F.C. or UUJ. The name change occurred following the closure of the Jordanstown Campus.

History

The club was founded as part of ''Ulster Polytechnic'' in 1972 and entered the

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. The club became UUJ with the amalgamation of the Polytechnic and the New University of Ulster as the University of Ulster in 1984. In 1991, it resigned from the B Division and dropped into the Amateur League. In line with the university's rebrand in October 2014, the club updated its name.

Banned from Collingwood

On Sunday, 22 February 2015, UU Jordanstown were due to play UCD in the first round of the Collingwood Cup. However, on Friday, 19 February, just two days earlier, the Irish Universities Football Union barred them from the competition. UUJ were banned because they planned to field players from

Magee College The Ulster University Derry~Londonderry campus, better known as Magee College, is one of the four campuses of Ulster University. It is located in Derry, Northern Ireland, and was opened in 1865 as a Presbyterian Christian arts and theological ...

in the team.

wanted to enter a single team featuring players from three campuses –

Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, No ...

Jordanstown Jordanstown () is a townland (of 964 acres) and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the urban area of Newtownabbey and the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area. It is also situated in the civil parish of Car ...

and Magee. However, football officials at Coleraine opposed this idea and entered the Collingwood Cup under their own name. Meanwhile, UU decided to enter the tournament as Jordanstown, while Magee opted not to enter the competition. With the Magee club not involved, UU decided to enter a joint team that included players from both Jordanstown and Magee. However, they were informed by IUFU that it was against Collingwood Cup rules to select players from more than one campus. As UU refused to comply with the IUFU requests and enter a team that only consisted of players from the Jordanstown campus, the IUFU opted to expel them from the competition. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Honours

* Northern Amateur Football League 1B: 1 **2005–06, 2017–2018 * Northern Amateur Football League 3E: 1 **1991–92 * Collingwood Cup: 6 **1980, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2008 * Collingwood Plate: 1 **1979 *North/South University League: 3 **1979–80, 1990–91, 1991–92

References

External links

UUJ FC Official Club Website

nifootball.co.uk
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