Lisburn Distillery F.C.

Lisburn Distillery Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club who are based in Ballyskeagh, County Down NIFL Premier Intermediate League.

Lisburn Distillery

Full name	Lisburn Distillery Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Whites
Founded	1880 (as Distillery)
Ground	New Grosvenor Stadium
Capacity	24,000
Chairman	Thomas Sharkey
Manager	Irwin Moore
League	NIFL Premier Intermediate League
2019-20	NIFL Premier Intermediate League, 8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The club, founded in 1880, originated in west Belfast, where it was based at Grosvenor Park at Distillery Street off the Grosvenor Road until 1971. After sharing Skegoneill Avenue (Brantwood) and Seaview (Crusaders) for some years, the club moved in 1980 to a permanent new home at New Grosvenor Stadium, Ballyskeagh, County Antrim, on the southern outskirts of Belfast.

The club was known simply as Distillery from its foundation until 1999, when it changed its official name to 'Lisburn Distillery' to associate itself more closely with its adopted borough (now city) of Lisburn. However, the club is still colloquially referred to as "Distillery". The club colour is white. A founder member of the Irish League in 1890, the club was relegated in May 2013. The Groundsman is called Dale Winton he sleeps in the club so he can start work on pitch at 7 am on a winter's morning it means no walk to Ballyskeagh in the wind and the rain

European record

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Overview

Competition	Matches	W	D	L	GF	GA
European Cup	2	0	1	1	3	8
UEFA Europa League	2	0	0	2	1	11
European Cup Winners' Cup	2	0	0	2	1	7
UEFA Intertoto Cup	4	0	0	4	3	8
TOTAL	10	0	1	9	8	34

Matches

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1963–64	European Cup	PR	Benfica	3–3	0–5	3–8
1971–72	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Barcelona	1–3	0–4	1–7
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Žalgiris Vilnius	0–1	0–1	0–2
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	TPS Turku	2–3	1–3	3–6
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Zestaponi	1–5	0–6	1–11

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 Jonah Nicholl — DF  NIR Stephen Curley — DF  NIR Chris Getty — MF  NIR James Wright — MF  NIR Matthew Rooney — DF  NIR Mark Stewart — DF  NIR Alan McMurtry — MF  NIR Aaron Harris — MF  NIR Andrew Simpson — DF  NIR Andy Long — DF  NIR Barry Moore — MF  NIR Gerard McAlea — FW  NIR Paul Young — FW  NIR Daire Rooney — MF  NIR Michael O'Hanlon — GK  NIR Sean McElhone — DF  NIR Timothy Clarke — MF  NIR Mikey Withers

Managerial history

Lisburn Distillery playing in August 2009.

• Neil Harris (1932–34)
• Jimmy McIntosh (1952–55)
• Maurice Tadman (1955–58)
• George Eastham, Sr. (1959–64)
• Jimmy McAlinden (1969–75)
• Roy Welsh
• Billy Hamilton (1989–95)
• Paul Kirk
• Tommy Wright (2009–11)
• Colin McIlwaine & George O'Boyle (2016-2019)
• Stephen Hatfield (2019–2020)[1]
• Irwin Moore (2020–)

Honours

Senior honours

• Irish League: 6 (inc. one shared)
  • 1895–96, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1905–06 (shared), 1962–63
• Irish Cup: 12
  • 1883–84, 1884–85, 1885–86, 1888–89, 1893–94, 1895–96, 1902–03, 1904–05, 1909–10, 1924–25, 1955–56, 1970–71
• Irish League Cup: 1
  • 2010–11
• County Antrim Shield: 14
  • 1888–89, 1892–93, 1895–96, 1896–97, 1899–1900, 1902–03, 1904–05, 1914–15, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1945–46, 1953–54, 1963–64, 1985–86
• Gold Cup: 5
  • 1913–14, 1919–20, 1924–25, 1929–30, 1993–94
• City Cup: 5
  • 1904–05, 1912–13, 1933–34, 1959–60, 1962–63
• Ulster Cup: 2
  • 1957–58, 1998–99
• Belfast Charity Cup: 5
  • 1899–00, 1915–16, 1920–21, 1928–29, 1930–31
• Dublin and Belfast Inter-city Cup: 1
  • 1947–48 (shared)
• Irish League First Division: 2
  • 1998–99, 2001–02

Intermediate honours

• Irish Intermediate Cup: 3
  • 1892–93†, 1902–03†, 1947–48‡
• Steel & Sons Cup: 1
  • 1900–01ƒ
• George Wilson Cup: 3
  • 1956–57‡, 1981–82‡, 1987–88‡
• McElroy Cup: 2
  • 1918–19‡, 1920–21‡

† Won by Distillery Rovers (reserve team)

‡ Won by Distillery II (reserve team)

ƒ Won by Distillery West End (reserve team)

Junior honours

• Irish Junior League: 3
  • 1890–91‡, 1892–93‡, 1902–03‡
• Irish Junior Cup: 1
  • 1887–88‡

‡ Won by Distillery II (reserve team)

References

1. Sherrard, Chris (28 August 2019). "Lisburn Distillery manager Hatfield wants players to thrive under promotion pressure this season". Belfast Live. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

• Official website