Football Clubs Set Up By Irish People

Reganio 2

Don't be smart and say the LOI teams, I mean teams like Celtic who basically consider themselves Irish. They don't have to consider themselves Irish but have been set up by Irish people, possibly the old priests that went all over the place. Just wondering is their many.

Peyton Manning

Hibs was founded by Irish immigrants too afaik.

Gavin "shels"

PFAI teams?

Reganio 2

Wasn't thinking straight it was the 2nd thing that came to my head after Eircom League for some reason. My bad.

Peyton Manning

Im sure there's loads of recently formed amateur clubs around the world.

For example, Munich Irish Rovers:

The club, though its roots go as far back as March '86, was officially founded on May 7th '95. The Munich Irish Rovers FC is registered with the BFV (Bavarian Football Association) and the BLSV (Bavarian State Sports Association). On June 8th 2001 the members voted to have the club registered - the club now officially has "e.V." added to its name.

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Archimedez wrote: »

Hibs was founded by Irish immigrants too afaik.

Dundee Utd as well.

Man Utd weren't founded by Irishmen but there's definitely a bit of a connection there somewhere..........didn't they nearly become Manchester Celtic?

Pinturicchio

Panathinaikos?

Chardee MacDennis

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Panathinaikos?

nope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panathinaikos_F.C.#Crest_and_colours

citytillidie

Everton and Liverpool

OPENROAD

citytillidie wrote: »

Everton and Liverpool

Where they set up by Irish men?

Zebra3

Reganio 2 wrote: »

Don't be smart and say the LOI teams,

Ok......Irish League teams. :cool:

Jordonvito

Glasgow Rangers and Hamburg

citytillidie

OPENROAD wrote: »

Where they set up by Irish men?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKenna

DazMarz

There were probably some teams in South America set up by Irish people too. Especially in Argentina, cos wasn't their navy founded by an Irish Admiral??? I could be completely wrong here, but I always did suck at history!:D

grenache

Archimedez wrote: »

Hibs was founded by Irish immigrants too afaik.

Hibs was founded in 1875 by an immigrant priest from Ballingarry in Co Limerick. I went to school with a great-grand-newphew of his.

OPENROAD

citytillidie wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKenna

Just curious, was he not the first manager and club secretary, was the club not founded by John Houlding.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Houlding

citytillidie

I think he was their 1st Manager but been loyal to Houlding he help set up Liverpool after the rift between Houlding and Everton over payments to use Anfield as their home ground

jonnybadd

Floriana in Malta comes close enough I recon, set up around the time when the British occupied Malta, but they are and have always been nicknamed Tal' Irish (The Irish) due to their first match against the Dublin Fusiliers who were stationed in Floriana at the time.

Having lived in Malta for a while and talked to some of the locals, legend is that it was in fact set up by the Fusiliers and the first match was basically a training session between the 22 players.

They are also the most successful team in the Maltese League, well until Roddy Collins came along anyways

Roddy23

Maybe wrong but thought that one of the Founding Father's of River Plate was an Irishman. Can't prove it online atm, but while looking did find this interesting article on other Irishmen who were involved with Association Football in Argentina:- http://www.irlandeses.org/0803raffo1.htm

Vurnon San Benito

I think O'Higgins is also an Irish setup?

Le King

Couple a Argentinian and Chilean team were.

Sr. Pirotecnic

UD Salamanca

anonymous_joe

DazMarz wrote: »

There were probably some teams in South America set up by Irish people too. Especially in Argentina, cos wasn't their navy founded by an Irish Admiral??? I could be completely wrong here, but I always did suck at history!:D

Admiral Guillermo Brown. I got free beer for being Irish thanks to him.

I think there are clubs named after him, but he didn't found any.

Doocey wrote: »

I think O'Higgins is also an Irish setup?

Bernard O'Higgins, the great Chilean liberator son of Ambrosio O'Higgins, an Irish born Spanish aristocrat.

Named in his honour, not founded by him.

Dub13

I cant believe nobody mentioned These

Paparazzo

citytillidie wrote: »

Everton and Liverpool

A protestent minister from Yorkshire and an orangeman!

Fr Tod Umptious

So the answer is very few it seems

OPENROAD

Paparazzo wrote: »

A protestent minister from Yorkshire and an orangeman!

The Liverpool set up confuses me, it was set up by an Englishman John Houlding, he was the actual person who founded the club from what I know. Is this not the case?

Must say I do find how clubs were set up fasinating, for instance the whole Everton, Liverpool thing etc.