Bangor Swifts F.C.

Bangor Swifts Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate-level football club playing in Division 1C of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club was founded when a team representing Wesley Centenary Youth Guild played its first match on 12 September 1970 at Rathgael Special School. The team only played friendly and Summer League matches mainly because most of the members of the team were still attending the local Bangor Grammar School.
In March 1972 the team changed its name to Epworth Hall Youth Club and began to play football at junior level. The following year it took up its current name of Bangor Swifts. The Swifts joined the Amateur League in 1987.

Contents

• Junior honours
• Crest
• Colours and Kits
• References

Its home ground is at St Columbanus' College although it also uses the playing fields in Valentine's Park, Bangor. As well as the first XI, the club also has 2nd XI in Division 3B of the Amateur League and a 3rd XI in the Down Area League, as well as an under-19 youth team playing in the South Belfast Youth League and an under-16 youth team.

The official club colours are a combination of royal blue and yellow and white. Various permutations of these colours have been worn down through the years by all the club's sides. The royal blue and yellow represent the town colours as well as those of Bangor F.C. who donated an old set of their shirts to the fledgling club in 1971, while the white represents the school PE shirts that players had to use before they had a uniform kit.