Glen GAC

2016 Football Season

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Camogie

Glen fields Camogie teams at U12, U14, U16, Minor and Senior levels. The senior team competes in the Credit Union Derry Premier League.

Ladies' football

Glen Ladies football club was formed in 1995. The club has won the Derry Senior Ladies' Football Championship 11 times and currently have won nine in a row.

Watty Graham Park

The club's home ground is Watty Graham Park. It was opened in 1982 by then GAA President Paddy Buggy. The first game was an over-35s game, which was followed by an inter-county match between Derry and Armagh. Celtic Park in Derry City is officially recognised as Derry's main county ground, but Watty Graham Park has hosted a number of National League and Dr. McKenna Cup games. Watty Graham Park currently has a capacity of six thousand.

History

The Watty Graham club evolved from the Pearse's club formed around 1933, when Fr Anthony Doherty among others arranged a South Derry league. The club reached the 1944 South Derry final and a few of their players represented Derry.

After the folding of the Pearse's club, Watty Graham's GAC Glen was officially formed in 1948. In the early 1950s it competed in a number of South Derry Finals and in 1953 they defeated St John's Mullan (a townland of Ballinderry) to win the South Derry Junior Championship. They won the same title six years later defeating The Loup in the final.

In 1964 they won the South Derry Junior and Derry Junior Football Championship by beating Littlebridge (part of the modern day Ógra Colmcille club) and Sarfield's respectively. The side repeated this feat in 1966 by beating The Loup in the South Derry Junior final before going on to win the Derry Junior final. The 1970s proved a barren decade for Watty Graham's and they have little apart from a McGlinchey Cup success in 1974 to show for it. Glen opened a new social club in Maghera in April 1976.

The club won its first Derry Intermediate Football Championship in 1980. They overcame Drumsurn in the final by 0-06 to 0-03. Glen won a second Intermediate Championship in 1983 defeating Drum in the final.

In 1985 Watty Graham's won the All-Ireland Óg Sport title. They competed in county, provincial and All Ireland phases to come out winners. Two years later they won the Derry Minor Football Championship with a success over Ballinascreen. The same year Glen won the Larkin Cup and also the Senior Division 1 League. The side added another Larkin Cup in 1995. Glen won their fourth and fifth Junior Championship in 2004 and 2005, the competitions this time won by the Glen Thirds team. This same Thirds team went on to win three in a row by winning the Thirds Championship in 2006.

After a prolonged period of dominance in underage football Glen won their fourth successive Ulster Minor Championship on 1 January 2015.

Senior

Derry Senior Football League: 1

1987

Derry Senior Reserve Football Trophy: 1

2008

Derry Intermediate Football Championship: 2

1980, 1983

Derry Intermediate Football League: 1

2014

Derry Junior Football Championship: 5

1959, 1964, 1966, 2004 (won by Glen Thirds team), 2005 (won by Glen Thirds team)

South Derry Junior Football Championship: 4

1953, 1959, 1964, 1966

Derry Thirds Football Championship: ?

2006

Larkin Cup 3

1987, 1995, 2005

McGlinchey Cup 1

1974

Derry Senior Football championship (division 1):21

1924-31

1945

1951-55

1979-84

1988-92

Under 21

South Derry Championship: 1

2014

Derry Championship: 3

2014, 2015, 2016

Ulster Championship: 3

2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17

Minor

Derry Minor Football Championship: 5

1987, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Ulster Minor Football Championship: 4

2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Derry Minor Football League: 3

2011, 2012, 2013

Under 16

Derry U-16 Football Championship:2

2010, 2011

Derry U-16 Football League:1

2011

South Derry U-16 Football Championship: 1

1984

South Derry U-16 'B' Football Championship: 1

2002, 2005

South Derry U-16 'B' Football League: 2

2004, 2006

U-15

All-Ireland Óg Sport: 1

1985

Ulster Óg Sport: 3

1985, 2009, 2010, 2012

Derry Óg Sport: 4

1985, 2009, 2010, 2012

U-14

Ulster Féile na nÓg: 1

2009

Derry Féile na nÓg: 3

1994, 2008, 2011

Derry U-14 Football Championship: 4

1984, 2008, 2009, 2010

Derry U-14 Football League: 4

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

South Derry U-14 Football Championship: 1

1982

South Derry U-14 'B' Football Championship: 2

1998, 2004

South Derry U-14 'B' Football League: 1

1998

U-13

U13 Championship: 3

2008, 2009, 2010

Ladies' Gaelic Football Titles

Derry Football Championship: 13

1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2016

Derry Football League: ?

1999, 2000, 2001

Ulster Intermediate Football Championship: 2

2003, 2007

All Ireland Intermediate Sevens: 1

2007

Powerscreen Sevens: 1

2000

Antrim 7-a-side Shield: 1

2002

U14 Derry Féile na nÓg: 2

2010, 2011

Note 1: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.
Note 2: Most of the Ladies' honours are only updated as far as 2002. Please add any other honours you know of.

Well known players

Ciaran McFaul - Current Derry player

Emmet Bradley

Enda Gormley - Two-time All Star winning Derry footballer. Part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side. Gormley managed Glen to their first ever Ulster Minor Championship at St Paul's Belfast on 1st Jan 2012, defeating Armagh Harps.

Damien McCusker - Goalkeeper in Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side.

Fergal McCusker - Part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side.

Gary McGill - Part of Derry's National League Football winning side in the 90's.

Séamus Lagan - Former Derry footballer. Won All-Ireland Minor and All-Ireland U-21 Championships. Also won Hogan Cup with St Columb's College, Derry.