History

Hello and welcome to the website of Armagh Blues Football Club. A brief history on the Armagh Blues as the interest in football in the Armagh area keeps growing from strength to strength.

In early 2007 Darren Crowe and Gordon Lee were approached by a number of youths and teenagers and asked would they start a football club. So after numerous meetings and general talk in the Armagh area it was decided that we would try and start a new team so a meeting was held in the Victoria Bar, Armagh and with over 20 attending it was decided that a couple of friendly games were arranged, first of all playing Division 3 side Broomhill going down 3-2. Our second game was against Banbridge Rangers, Mid Ulster Division 4 champions and recorded a defeat of 3-1. Our final friendly was played against Bourneview Young Men which ended in a 0-0 draw.

So a good strong base was in place and our first official club meeting was held where we appointed our club Chairman and Committee members. We started off our meeting in need of a name, a few names brought up were Armagh Rangers, Armagh Crusaders, Orangefield Rangers and after a long debate we finally agreed to call ourselves Armagh Blues and taking the credit was Darren Crowe who came up with the name.

After a brief history on the famous old Armagh Blues team from the 70s who won the famous Armstrong cup 10 times, a team that was made up of Glenavon players and supporters from Armagh. It was agreed a new era for the Blues was now on the way. A sponsor was found for the home and away kits and a lot of fundraising nights took place.

The club applied for the local Lonsdale league and were accepted to play in the 2007/08 season, the following year the club applied to join the Mid Ulster football league division 4 and with great joy were accepted and offered a place in division 4 in the 2008/09 season.

As are first team gained a new management set up in the summer of 2009 and the whole new buzz was all round the club we seen a major number off new signings arrive for our first team squad. So instead of seening players leave the club and join other clubs we formed our seconds team and what a success theyve been in just two weeks they had twenty five players at there training sessions. So club chairman Darren Crowe entered them into the local Bernard Pattison Lonsdale League division 2 with another ten newly formed teams from the Armagh / Dungannon area for the season 2009/2010. We hope that the 2009 season will bring silverware to the club from both teams and we wish them every success throughout the season , to be continued .