Rathcoole Football Club are a
junior-level football club playing in the first division of the
Ballymena & Provincial League in
Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 2012.[1] The club is based in
Rathcoole,
Newtownabbey,
County Antrim, playing their home games at the Diamond, a two pitch facility that they share with
Rathfern Rangers. They gained intermediate status in 2013[2] and competed in the
Irish Cup for the first time in
2015–16, reaching the second round.[3] However the club returned to the junior ranks for the 2016-17 season by dropping down a division. Rathcoole then folded in July 2017 and rebuilt the team and registered themselves again for the 2017-2018 season.[4]
External links
nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)
