Full name San Francisco Glens Founded 1961 | Nickname(s) The Glens | |
San Francisco Glens is an American soccer club and soccer team founded in 1961. The team was a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
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The Glens have played in the California Premier Soccer Association of the San Francisco Soccer Football League for many years, and are affiliated with the San Francisco Seals of the USL Premier Development League.
The Glens currently run a youth club in the city of San Francisco.
History
The Glens were founded in 1961 by Dr. Michael McFadden, the club was one of a number of Irish sides that had emerged in the SFSFL during the 1960s. The emergence of the Irish-American Glens during this period was based on the coaching of Irishman Neil Hagan coupled with a talented crop of young players. They began to prosper after Neil Hagen took over the coaching of the team. With an emphasis on youth, Hagan developed a side that featured the talents of Tom and Steve Ryan, Jim Boyle, and Tom and Tim Harvey among others. The result was promotion to the top division by the end of the decade. The Glens went on to national prominence by going to the National Amateur Cup final in 1979 where they lost 1–0 to Atlanta Datagraphic. The Irish side returned to the Amateur Cup final in 1990, but was on the wrong side of another 1–0 result. In the 1980s, the Glens overcame a major setback to capture their first SFSFL championship in 1984. The untimely death of Hagan in 1981 left a void that might have been the end of other clubs. Sean Shannon stepped into the spotlight and quietly remolded the team into a championship-winning outfit by bringing in players such as Paul Mitchell and Mal Roche. Their 1984 title was the first ever by an Irish side, and they returned again for a second in 1990. The SF Glens returned to the SFSFL in 2015 with a premier and reserve team.
Honors
California State Cup 1983–84
California State Intermediate Cup 1968–69
U.S. Open Cup California North 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81
National Amateur Cup
SFSFL
Carlsberg Cup