Glenavon F.C.
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| Full name | Glenavon Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Lurgan Blues, The Mourneview Aces |
| Founded | November 1889; 125 years ago |
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Mourneview Park, Lurgan County Armagh |
| Capacity | 4,160 (3,200 seated) |
| Chairman | Adrian Teer |
| Manager | Gary Hamilton (player-manager) |
| League | NIFL Premiership |
| 2015–16 | NIFL Premiership, 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Glenavon Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Premiership. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Lurgan and plays its home matches at Mourneview Park. Club colours are blue and white. Gary Hamilton has been player-manager of the Lurgan Blues since December 2011 following the resignation of Marty Quinn.
Glenavon's bitter rivals are Portadown. Their matches are known as the 'Mid-Ulster Derby' and Glenavon's current player-manager Gary Hamilton played for Portadown before joining the Lurgan Blues.
In August 2008, the club appointed a new manager, Stephen McBride, a former Northern Ireland international and a popular Glenavon player during his footballing career, playing for the club during the 1990s. McBride's reign lasted seven months before he was relieved of his managerial duties with Glenavon at the bottom of the IFA Premiership. The Director of Football, Alan Fraser, was also relieved from his duties. The club chairman is Adrian Teer.
Glenavon was the first provincial club to win the Irish League title (1951–52) and also the first provincial club to do the league and cup double (1956–57). The latter triumph also made them the first Northern Irish team to enter the European Cup. Glenavon has had a number of talented and famous players, none more so than Wilbur Cush and Jimmy Jones, who were to the fore in "the glory years" of the Fifties. The success of the 1950s is still the benchmark at the club – the closest the club have come to achieving a league success since came in the 1993–94 season, when but for two late goals in the final match Glenavon would have been crowned champions.
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