UCD Waves
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| Full name | University College Dublin Waves |
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| Founded |
1966 (UCD formed) 2012 (DLR Waves formed) clubs merged 2014 |
| Ground |
Jackson Park UCD Bowl Belfield Park |
| Manager | Noel Kealy |
| League |
Women's National League Dublin Women's Soccer League Womens Soccer Colleges Association of Ireland League |
| Website | Club home page |
UCD Waves (Irish: Tonnta COBÁC) is an Irish association football club based in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It is the senior women's football team of University College Dublin. UCD are one of the oldest women's football clubs in the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1966. Like the UCD men's team, the women's football team has competed in national competitions, such as the Women's National League, the FAI Women's Cup, and intervarsity competitions. It has also represented the Republic of Ireland in Europe. In 2014, following a merger, with DLR Waves, the club added the Waves title to their name.
Originally founded in 1966, according to Professor Meenan's History of UCD Sport, UCD played their first games in 1967, including one against Dublin University. However it was not until the early 1980s that the club began to play regularly. In 1983 and 1984 they finished as runners-up in the LSCAI Intervarsity Cup. In 1991 UCD joined the national colleges league, which was organized by the Ladies Soccer Colleges Association of Ireland (LSCAI) and then by the Women's Soccer Colleges Association of Ireland (WSCAI). The club won its first Colleges Premier Division title in 1994–95 with a 100% record and without conceding a goal all season. The club completed an Intervarsity double after also winning the Intervarsity Cup for the first time. A second Intervarsity double was completed in 1996–97.
In the early 2000s UCD entered national level competitions for the first time, joining the Dublin Women's Soccer League and entering the FAI Women's Cup. With a team that included Marie Curtin, Sylvia Gee and Mary Waldron, UCD rivalled Shamrock Rovers as one of the strongest women's teams in the Republic of Ireland. UCD completed a four in a row of DWSL titles between 2003 and 2006. They also won the FAI Women's Cup three times in a row between 2002 and 2004.
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