Shankill United F.C.

Shankill United Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League. They play their home matches at the Hammer pitch on Agnes Street in the Shankill area of Belfast although for the 2012–13 season they relocated to the Inverary Park ground in the east of the city.[1] The club was founded in 1971 as Harland & Wolff Rec., changing its name to Harland & Wolff Sports in 1984.[2] In 2007, it adopted its present name.[3]

Shankill United
Full nameShankill United Football Club
Founded1971
GroundHammer Playing Fields, Belfast
LeagueNAFL Premier Division
2017–18NAFL Premier Division, 10th
WebsiteClub website

Honours

Intermediate honours

Notable people

Notes

  1. Shankill United, NAFL site
  2. H. Johnstone & G. Hamilton (n.d.) A Memorable Milestone: 75 Years of the Northern Amateur Football League, pp. 200-201
  3. "Cut Some Shank", NI Football, Issue 14 (2009), p. 27
  • nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)


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