Bryansburn Rangers F.C.

Bryansburn Rangers

Full name	Bryansburn Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Burn
Founded	1974
Ground	Ballywooley Park, Bangor
Chairman	Alan Dempster
Manager	Andy Thompson
League	NAFL Division 1B
2021–22	NAFL Division 1B, 11th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Bryansburn Rangers Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in Division 1B of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club are from Bangor, County Down and play their home matches at Ballywooley Park on the Crawfordsburn Road. The club was founded in 1974 and joined the Amateur League in 1984.

Bryansburn field 3 senior teams in total. As well as the first team, there is a second team playing in Northern Amateur Football League Division 3D along with 3rd team that compete in the Down Area League, Divisions 1. The first team were promoted to Division 1A at the end of 2009–10 season, however 2 back to back relegation's left the team in 1C. After a number of years in 1C, the 1st team gained promotion once again to 1B in the 17/18 season, finishing runners up to 18th Newtownabbey Old Boys F.C.

The club competes in a number of cup competitions in Northern Ireland, such as the Steel & Sons Cup, the Irish Cup, the Irish Intermediate Cup, the Clarence Cup and the Border Cup.

The club appointed former player Andy Thompson as their new manager on the 22nd June 2023. Andy made 425 competitive appearances for the club between 1998 and 2017.

Squad 2023-2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	NIR	David Finlay
—	DF	NIR	Jordan Parkes
—	DF	NIR	Ross Gray
—	DF	NIR	Dylan Robinson
—	DF	NIR	Alan McMullan
—	DF	NIR	Matty White
—	MF	NIR	Ricky Thompson
—	ST	NIR	Mark McAdams
—	ST	NIR	Ross Graig
—	ST	NIR	Mark Ballantine
—	ST	EIR	Mark McAdams

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	ST	NIR	Tyler Corbett
—	ST	NIR	Jordan Duff
—	ST	NIR	Phil Green
—	ST	NIR	Ben Carson
—	ST	NIR	Josh Patterson
—	ST	NIR	Josh Ferguson
—	MF	NIR	Lewis Stevenson
—	FW	NIR	Stewart Morrison (C)
—	DF	NIR	Cameron McNicholl

Honours

Intermediate honours

• Northern Amateur Football League 1C
  • 2017/18 (Runners up)

Junior honours

• Northern Amateur Football League 2C: 2
  • 1996/97
  • 2000/01

Notable events

On Sunday 29 March 2015, in the lead up to the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier between Northern Ireland national football team and Finland national football team, Bryansburns home ground 'Ballywooley' was used as a venue for the fans game between the Northern Ireland and Finland fans teams. Former Northern Ireland international Keith Gillespie who made a guest appearance for the Northern Ireland fans team, alon with Finnish Legend Jari Litmanen for the Finland fans team. Northern Ireland ran out eventual 3-1 winners.

Notable former players

• Josh Magennis, international professional footballer from Northern Ireland, currently playing for Wigan Athletic in the EFL League One division.

Club officials

• Chairman: Alan Dempster
• Secretary: Jordan Parkes
• Treasurer: Davy Armstrong
• Groundsmen: Alex Jones
• 1st team Manager: Andy Thompson
• 1st team assistant Managers: Andy Cardwell, Rob Steventon
• Club Captain: Alan McMullan
• 2nd team Manager: Noel Clements
• 3rd team Manager: Austy

External links

• Bryansburn Rangers Official Club website
• nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)