Newtown Rangers AFC
Tallaght-based club with two senior Leinster Senior League teams.
Newtown Rangers AFC is a football club from Kiltipper in Tallaght, Dublin. It runs two senior men's sides in the Leinster Senior League: one in the Senior 1A Sunday Division and another in the Major 1 Saturday Division. The club regularly takes part in the FAI Cup, FAI Intermediate Cup, FAI Junior Cup, Leinster Senior Cup, and Leinster Junior Cup.
Quick Facts
- League
- Leinster Senior League
- Manager
- Glenn Madden
- Ground
- Farrell Park, Ballymana Lane, Kiltipper, Dublin 24
- Founded
- 1957
- Nickname
- The Town
- Full name
- Newtown Rangers Athletic Football Club
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History
The club was formed in Mrs Lizzie Farrell's kitchen in Newtown Park on the main road in Tallaght in 1957. It originally played in the Athletic Union League, and its early highlight was winning the Leinster Junior Cup in 1966. Newtown moved to the Leinster Senior League in the mid-1990s. In 2002/03 former St Patrick's Athletic and Hall of Fame player Mark Ennis returned as first team manager.
Under Ennis in 2003–04 the club won a treble: the Leinster Senior League Division 1B title, the Moore Cup and the Gilligan Cup. The club reached the second round of the 2009 FAI Cup, taking an early lead at Salthill Devon before conceding three second-half goals. In 2013 the club opened a 40 x 50 metre floodlit training astro pitch at Farrell Park. As of the 2021/22 season the two senior teams are managed by former Newtown Rangers schoolboy and Bluebell United captain Glenn Madden, brother of former Irish professional footballer Simon Madden.
The club celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017 with a memorial booklet. It qualified for the 2019 FAI Cup, losing to Avondale United in the initial round.
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