Annagh United F.C.

Annagh United

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Full name	Annagh United Football Club
Founded	1963
Ground	Tandragee Road, Portadown
Capacity	1,250 (100 seated)
Chairman	Brian McGurgan
League	NIFL Premier Intermediate League
2016–17	NIFL Championship, 12th (Relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Annagh United Football Club (The name 'Annagh' from Irish Eanach 'Marsh') is an Intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League. The club is close neighbours to Portadown in the NIFL Championship.The club, founded in 1963, hails from Portadown and plays its home matches at Tandragee Road. The club home colours have always been and remain a mixture of red and white with black trim.

History

Tandragee Road has been the club's home since 1983. Indeed when the club opened its new pitch a Northern Irish star player of the time, the great George Best turned out in an Annagh United select side. The club run two senior teams, with the reserve team playing in the Championship Reserve League and managed by Paul Matchett. More recently the club have developed youth teams who play in the Mid Ulster / Lisburn Youth Leagues. In the 2009–10 season however, the team finished near the bottom of the league and manager Wilkinson parted company with the club. In late July David Johnstone ex Loughgall caretaker manager was appointed manager with Michael Crowe the backroom staff. Johnstone played for Ards, Carrick Rangers, Larne and Loughgall. Recent seasons have brought some notable cup runs, none less than 2006–07 under the reign of Niall Currie, now boss at Loughgall, when they reached the Mid-Ulster Cup final against local senior club Newry City and the Irish Intermediate Cup Semi-final against Coagh United. Ironically, Annagh lost out to the latter team in the Bob Radcliffe Cup semi-final earlier in that season. Johnstone has since departed the club and the temporary management team of players Dean Smith, Darragh Peden and Alan Murphy took over. Dean Smith was confirmed as manager for the 2013–14 season with Alan Murphy assistant and Darragh Peden coach. The club were promoted to the NIFL Championship 1 in the 2014–15 season and managed to survive for the 2016–17 season. The club suffered greatly in their second season in NIFL Championship 1 suffering to very heavy defeats to Institute, Dergview, Knockbreda and Warrenpoint Town with the club sitting rock bottom of Championship 1.They did however,pull of a massive shock in the League Cup when they took on Glentoran and beat them 3-2 with Nacho Novo scoring his first goal for the East Belfast side in what was Alan Kernaghan's last game in charge of Glentoran.

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	NIR	Eoin Hughes
—	DF	NIR	Ryan Corrigan
—	MF	NIR	Adam White
—	DF	NIR	Mark Whitten
—	FW	NIR	Johnny McLurg
—	FW	NIR	Padriag Judge
—	FW	NIR	Christopher McElroy
—	MF	NIR	Craig Taylor
—	DF	NIR	Mark Stewart
—	DF	NIR	Raymond Harpur
—	DF	NIR	Shane Mulgrew

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	NIR	Steven Park
—	MF	NIR	Matthew Brown
—	MF	NIR	Jamie Smith
—	MF	NIR	Andrew Smith
—	MF	NIR	Ben Eagle
—	MF	NIR	Francis McCann
—	MF	NIR	Adam Nesbitt
—	MF	NIR	Scott Rae
—	FW	NIR	Nathaniel Ferris
—	FW	NIR	Gary Boyle
—	FW	NIR	Scott McCordick
—	FW	NIR	Aaron Duke

External links

• Annagh United FC Website
• Irish Football Club Project
• Irish Premier League Website
• Irish FA Website
• Irish League Supporters' Forums
• nifootball.co.uk (fixtures, results and tables of all leagues)