Dunboyne A.F.C.
football club
Dunboyne A.F.C. is an Irish association football club based in Dunboyne, County Meath. The club, which was founded in 1970, competes in the Leinster Senior League and plays its home matches at the Summerhill Road football ground. In 2015, Dunboyne qualified for the FAI Cup for the first time.
History
Dunboyne were founded in 1970 by a group of teenagers led by Pat Brady, Mick Kane, Mick McAuley and Kevin Poleon. They applied to join the Athletic Union League in Dublin, although they were informed a prerequisite to entry was for clubs to have their own pitch. To meet this requirement, the club obtained the use of a field on Summerhill Road from local man Joseph Bruton, father of John and Richard Bruton. The local sergeant, Nicholas Caesar, was recruited as the club's first manager and donations were collected to meet the league's financial requirements.
The club were admitted into Division 3A of the Athletic Union League (AUL), the league's lowest division at the time, and played their first match on 30 August 1970 against Newbrook Celtic from Rathfarnham. Dunboyne played in a yellow and blue kit while Sam Conroy became the club's first captain. The kit colours had been adopted from the yellow jerseys and blue shorts of the Brazilian national team, who had recently won the World Cup in Mexico.
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