Wellington Park F.C. (Northern Ireland)
| Full name | Wellington Park Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1882 | |
| Dissolved | 1887 | |
| Ground | Stranmillis (1882-85)[1] Eglantine (1885-86)[2] Colin View (1886-87)[3] | |
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Wellington Park Football Club is a former Irish football club from Belfast. It was founded in 1882 by members of Rugby Lacrosse Club.[4][5] It reached the final of the Irish Cup in 1884, losing to Distillery. The club wound up at the end of the 1886-87 season and was reformed as Rugby Football Club, now playing rugby union.[6] Rugby F.C. in turn folded in 1890 and some of its former members helped form Collegians rugby club, while others formed the Windsor rugby club.[7]
References
- ^ Northern Whig, 8 October 1883
- ^ Belfast News-Letter, 19 October 1885
- ^ Belfast News-Letter, 25 October 1886
- ^ Neal Garnham, The Origins and Development of Football in Ireland being a reprint of R. M. Peter’s Irish Football Annual of 1880 (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), p. 172
- ^ Belfast News-Letter, 19 October 1885
- ^ Northern Whig, 1 October 1887
- ^ Belfast Evening Telegraph, 1 October 1890 and 22 October 1890
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