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Portsmouth Bombers FC

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ19577446 ↗
Source-derived summary

Portsmouth Bombers Football Club is a Dominican professional football club representing Portsmouth, Dominica (on the northern side of the country, hence their previous name Northern Bombers). The club competes in the Dominica Premier League, the top tier of Dominica football.

History

It was founded on July 10, 1993, in Portsmouth, Dominica, as Portsmouth Bombers FC, and has changed its name several times, including:

1993-2005: Portsmouth Bombers FC

2005-06: Indian River Inn Bombers FC

2006-09: Fone Shack Bombers FC

2009-11: NAGICO Bombers FC

2011-present: Northern Concrete & Steel Bombers

The club won its first Dominica Football Championship title in the 2013/14 season, ultimately beating Exodus FC in the standings.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Portsmouth Bombers FC” as football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2005, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Portsmouth, Bombers and football can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19577446. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2005, 2006 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Portsmouth Bombers FC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.