Lisburn Distillery F.C.

Lisburn Distillery

Full name	Lisburn Distillery Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Whites
Founded	1880 (as Distillery)
Ground	New Grosvenor Stadium
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Jim Greer and Rodney McCombe
Manager	Sean Paul Murray
League	NIFL Championship 2
2015–16	13th (Relegated)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Lisburn Distillery is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club based in Ballyskeagh, County Down. 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 as Distillery until 1999, when it changed its name to 'Lisburn Distillery' in an attempt to associate itself more closely with its adopted borough (now city) of Lisburn. The club colour is white. The club, a founder member of the Irish League in 1890, was relegated in May 2013.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Ryan Mcbride 2 DF Darren Nixon 3 DF Stuart Thompson 4 DF Bradley Morton 5 DF Peter Sargent 6 MF Ryan Corrigan (footballer) 7 MF Jimmy McIhagga 8 MF Kiran O'Conor (Northern Irish footballer) 9 MF Stephan Doyle 10 FW Sean Southam 11 FW Marty Jones 35 FW Robbie White

No. Position Player 14 FW Darren Smyth 15 DF Colm Kiregan 16 DF Marty Young 17 FW Mikey Withers 18 MF William Bingham 19 MF Joe McDonel 20 MF Mark Lyons 13 MF Artur Kopyt 31 MF Neil McCann 32 GK Reece Kane

Notable former managers

• 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)

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
• Irish League First Division: 2
  • 1998–99, 2001–02
• Dublin and Belfast Inter-city Cup: 1
  • 1947–48 (shared)

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‡

† Won by Distillery Rovers (reserve team)

‡ Won by Distillery II (reserve team)

ƒ Won by Distillery West End (reserve team)

Junior honours

• Irish Junior Cup: 1
  • 1888‡

‡ Won by Distillery II (reserve team)

External links

• Lisburn Distillery FC Website