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Chairman
  
Ken Green

Ground
  
Belfast

Founded
  
1928

Manager
  
Gavin Arthur

League
  
NIFL Championship 1


Full name
  
Police Service of Northern Ireland Football Club

2015–16
  
NIFL Championship 2, 2nd (promoted)

PSNI Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Championship. The club is associated with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and its home ground is Newforge Lane in Belfast.

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It was founded in 1928 as RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) and changed its name in 2002, following the change in the name of the police.

The club joined the Northern Amateur Football League in 1956 and became one of its leading clubs before being elevated to the Irish League B Division in 1975. The club stayed at this level until failing to gain a place in the reorganised and re-branded IFA Championship in 2008.

Although originally only serving members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland could play for the team, that rule no longer exists though many officers still turn out for team.

Intermediate honours

  • Irish League B Division: 1
  • 1986–87
  • Irish Intermediate Cup: 4
  • 1978–79, 1979–80, 1984–85, 1986–87
  • Steel & Sons Cup: 1
  • 1993–94
  • B Division Knock-out Cup: 3
  • 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86
  • Northern Amateur Football League: 2
  • 1970–71, 1972–73
  • Clarence Cup: 1
  • 1960–61
  • Border Cup: 1
  • 1964-65
  • Junior honours

  • County Antrim Junior Shield: 1
  • 1965–66†
  • † Won by RUC II (reserve team)

    Current squad

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

    References

    PSNI F.C. Wikipedia