Coleraine F.C.
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| Full name | Coleraine Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Bannsiders |
| Founded | June 1927 |
| Ground | The Showgrounds |
| Capacity | 2,496 |
| Chairman | Colin McKendry |
| Manager | Oran Kearney |
| League | NIFL Premiership |
| 2015–16 | NIFL Premiership, 5th |
Coleraine Football Club is a Northern Irish semi-professional football club, playing in the NIFL Premiership. The club, founded in 1927, hails from Coleraine, County Londonderry and plays its home matches at The Showgrounds. Club colours are blue and white. The current manager is Oran Kearney of Linfield.The Bannsiders won the Irish League title once (in 1973–74) and the Irish Cup on five occasions, most recently in 2002–03. They are also the only Irish League club to have won two successive all-Ireland competitions, lifting the Blaxnit Cup in 1969 and 1970.The club is bitter rivals with Ballymena United with their matches being known as the "North West Derby"
Coleraine Football Club was founded in June 1927 at a meeting in the local Orange hall. The club was formed out of a merger between two local sides: Coleraine Olympic and Coleraine Alexandra. The original club colours were all white, hence the club's original nickname – the Lilywhites. The new club secured its first trophy in the 1931–32 season, defeating Ballymena United 3–0 at Solitude to win the Gold Cup.
In 1948, Coleraine reached its first Irish Cup final, going down 3–0 to Linfield. 1953 brought another appearance in the final and another defeat, again to Linfield, this time by five goals to nil. The 1950s saw the City Cup won for the first time (1953–54) and a second triumph in the Gold Cup (1958).
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