Tobermore United
Full nameTobermore United Football Club
Nickname(s)"The Reds"
Founded1965
GroundFortwilliam Park, Tobermore
Capacity1,000 (100 seated)
ChairmanRainey Lyle
ManagerGraeme McKenzie
LeagueNIFL Premier Intermediate League
2022-2023NIFL Premier Intermediate League, 6th

Tobermore United Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League.

History

The club, founded in 1965, is based in Tobermore, near Magherafelt, County Londonderry and currently plays its home matches at Fortwilliam Park. Club colours are red and black. The current manager is Jimmy Crockett.

Tobermore United is the only football club in Northern Ireland that George Best ever played competitively for. However, it was only for one match, on 11 February 1984, after many years of his decline, and Tobermore lost 7–0 to Ballymena.[1]

The club has an extensive and highly popular youth development scheme which has led to it being awarded official Football Development Centre (FDC) status by the IFA. It currently has teams at under-11, under-12, under-14 and under-16 level.

In the 2010–11 season, the club gained promotion to IFA Championship 1 by finishing 2nd in IFA Championship 2, but were relegated again two-years later.

In the 2016/17 season, the IFA Championship 2 was changed to the NIFL Premier Intermediate League. In its inaugural season, Tobermore finished 5th.

In the 2018/19 season Tobermore achieved a success of 3rd place in the Premier Intermediate League.

Following the curtailed 2019–20 Premier Intermediate League season, Tobermore finished 11th and technically bottom of the league however weren’t relegated due to no appropriate promotion candidates, and given the league had already lost Lurgan Celtic who had withdrawn.

Due to Covid-19, the 2020/21 season wasn't played, and the Premier Intermediate League began again in the 2021/22 season. Tobermore finished bottom once again, but were not relegated as there were 11 teams in the league when there were meant to be 12 (Ballymacash Rangers F.C. were promoted to the Premier Intermediate League and nobody was relegated to allow a 12-team league for the following season).

In the 2022/23 season, Tobermore finished 6th in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League, making it ino the top section of the split but finishing bottom of it.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Northern Ireland NIR Gareth Maguire
— GK Poland POL Lukasz Bednarz
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Callum Biggart
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Dylan Hull
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Emmett McGilloway
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Jake Francis
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Shane Mulgrew
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Shannon Crooks
— DF Northern Ireland NIR Shay Dunlop
— DF Cape Verde CPV Wilson Dos Santos Tavares
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Eoin Gillan
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Dan Barfoot
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Andy Whiteside
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Conor Kearns
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Declan Martin
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Eamon Óg McAllister
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Jake Morrow
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Jamie Adams
— MF Northern Ireland NIR Jason Goldie

Honours

Senior honours

Intermediate honours

References

  1. ↑ "The day Manchester United icon George Best played for Tobermore United". News Letter. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
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