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Dundela

Club · England · Championship

«The Duns»

235 Matches
81 wins
49 draws
105 losses
343–412 Goals
−69 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Form L 28 Aug · Away H&W Welders · 0:2 W 5 Sep · Home Glenavon FC · 3:2 D 12 Sep · Away Newington Youth · 5:5 D 18 Sep · Home Strabane Athletic · 1:1 W 26 Sep · Away Armagh City · 2:0 L 3 Oct · Home Queen's University · 0:2

Dundela's one senior trophy came at Windsor Park in 1955, when the side beat Glenavon 3-0 in the Irish Cup final — the only time a club from the amateur Irish Alliance has won the competition.

The club began in 1895, formed by workers at the Agnew family's Belfast dairy alongside members of a local athletics club. Wilgar Park, tucked into the Strandtown area on the city's east side, has been home ever since 1900 and holds 2,500. Green and white are the colours; red is kept for away days. Locally the team are known as the Duns.

Two deaths mark the club's history. On 25 August 1995, captain Michael Goddard died during a match after being struck in the chest by the ball — Dundela still calls it its darkest hour. In 2023, player Aodhán Gillen was killed in a road accident; that same season the club topped the second tier but stayed there, Wilgar Park's pitch falling short of the dimensions required for the Premiership.

Eric McMordie was spotted at Dundela before moving on to Middlesbrough and the Northern Ireland squad; Billy Caskey, who had made his name at Glentoran and Derby County, closed his career here between 1994 and 1996. Matches against H&W Welders, the other club from east Belfast, are still billed as the East Belfast derby. Dundela remain in the NIFL Championship, waiting on the ground work that would let the next promotion actually count.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
9 Oct Championship Newry City AFC A
3 Oct Championship Queen's University H 0:2 L
26 Sep Championship Armagh City A 2:0 W
18 Sep Championship Strabane Athletic H 1:1 D
12 Sep Championship Newington Youth A 5:5 D
5 Sep Championship Glenavon FC H 3:2 W

Standing

Championship
# Team M W D L Goals Pts
9 Ballinamallard United 10 3 3 4 10:15 12
10 Institute 9 3 2 4 13:14 11
11 Dundela 10 2 5 3 18:20 11
12 Moyola Park 9 3 2 4 10:17 11
13 Ards 10 2 4 4 11:13 10
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 235
235 Matches
81 wins
49 draws
105 losses
343–412 Goals
−69 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 235
81wins: 81 · 34% 49draws: 49 · 20% 105losses: 105 · 44%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
28 Aug · Away H&W Welders · 0:2
5 Sep · Home Glenavon FC · 3:2
12 Sep · Away Newington Youth · 5:5
18 Sep · Home Strabane Athletic · 1:1
26 Sep · Away Armagh City · 2:0
3 Oct · Home Queen's University · 0:2
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 235 123 112
Scored 343 201 142
Conceded 412 210 202
Scored per game 1.5 1.6 1.3
Conceded per game 1.8 1.7 1.8
Difference −69 −9 −60

Fixtures of Dundela

Honours of Dundela

  • Irish League B Division / NIFL Championship 1968, 1977, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001 11
  • Irish Intermediate Cup 1947, 1955, 1966, 1975, 1984, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001 10
  • Steel & Sons Cup 1946, 1964, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2000, 2008, 2014 10
  • Irish Intermediate League 1922, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951 5
  • B Division Knock-out Cup 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995 4
  • George Wilson Cup 1965, 1968, 1972, 1975 4
  • Louis Moore Cup 1961, 1965, 1967 3
  • NIFL Premier Intermediate League / Second Division 2000, 2001, 2018 3
  • Irish Cup 1955 1
  • McElroy Cup 1946 1

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