Lurgan Celtic F.C.
Northern Irish association football club
Lurgan Celtic Football Club is a intermediate-level football club based in Lurgan, County Armagh, that plays in the Mid-Ulster Football League Intermediate B Division. The club was founded in 1903 and reformed in 1969 as the recognised spiritual successor (acknowledged within the club's crest). The club plays in a strip based on the Scottish team Celtic F.C., although it began with green and white candy-striped shirts. Lurgan Celtic forms part of the Mid-Ulster Football Association.
In August 2019, Lurgan Celtic announced that its senior side would withdraw from the NIFL and "implement a new youth academy structure" and "restructure its youth academy", with a view to restarting its senior teams for the 2020–21 season. Lurgan Celtic resumed senior football activities at the bottom of the Mid-Ulster Football League pyramid, upon the commencement of the 2020–21 season. After the resumption of Mid-Ulster Football League, after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the club made a return to the senior/mens Football League calendar for the 2021–2022 season. The club garnered promotions up the senior pyramid, and back into Intermediate football for the 2026–27 season.
History
A club by the name of Lurgan Celtic was originally formed in 1903, with its name slanting towards the Roman Catholic community of Lurgan, adopting the name and colours of Glasgow Celtic, a popular club among the Irish Catholics population of Glasgow and the west of Scotland.The Gaelic Athletic Association was in its early stages and was keen to promote Gaelic games and association football in particular, perceived as "foreign", was discouraged. A change in attitudes gradually took hold in the early 1970s and Lurgan Celtic was reborn, subsequently rising to become one of the strongest clubs in the Craigavon area.
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