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Shamrock Rovers Football Club is a football club in Dublin that plays in the Football League of Ireland. The club's colours are green and white, similar to Celtic F.C., and the club goes by the nicknames The Hoops and Rovers. Shamrock Rovers originally played in green and white stripes. more...

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The green and white hooped jerseys were adopted after Belfast Celtic presented Rovers with a set of green and white hooped jerseys following a friendly match in the 1930's.

History

The club, founded in 1901, originally hails from the inner Dublin suburb of Ringsend. From the early 1920s until 1987 they played at Glenmalure Park, Milltown and became Ireland's most successful club. Shamrock Rovers have won more FAI Cups (24) and leagues (15) than any other Irish club. For many years, Rovers were Ireland's most prestigious team. Famous achievements included the winning of six FAI Cups in a row in the 1960s and four consecutive league titles (including three \"doubles\") in the 1980s. In addition, they were also the first Irish club to play in the European Cup, playing Manchester United in 1958. Further, the Shamrock Rovers were one of the European club teams which spent the 1967 season in the United States founding the North American Soccer League, representing Boston as the Boston Rovers. Shamrock Rovers have also supplied more different players to the Republic of Ireland national football team (62 in all) than any other single club. Famous players to have played for the club include: Jimmy Dunne, Paddy Coad, Frank O'Neill, John Giles, Jim Beglin, Liam O'Brien,and Eamon Dunphy. Irish Rugby international Tony Ward also played for the club for a period in the 1970s. Up until the 1970s, Shamrock Rovers were well supported, attracting over 20,000 people regularly to Glenmalure Park and up to 40,000 for Cup Finals and European matches at Dalymount Park. Ultimately a combination of poor results, competition from televised football and other attractions meant that by the 1980s the club's crowds averaged below 3,000. However, prior to a severe crisis that began in the late 1980s, Shamrock Rovers were still, to many, considered the most prestigious club in Irish football.

In 1987, the club's home ground was sold by the then owners, the Kilcoyne family. It was subsequently demolished and developed for housing. Supporters waged a long and acrimonious but futile campaign to save the ground. Home games were boycotted ultimately forcing out the Kilcoynes as owners. The club has been without a home from that time until the present. The most stable period since was while playing at the Royal Dublin Society's grounds in Ballsbridge between 1990 and 1996. During this time Rovers won a league trophy (in 1994) and attracted reasonable crowds. The club has not won a major trophy since 1994. Since then the club have been trying to develop a stadium in Tallaght and have played their home matches at several venues all over the city including Tolka Park, Richmond Park and the athletics venue at Morton Stadium in Santry. The Tallaght Stadium project has run into severe planning and funding difficulties and it is unclear if the team will play there in the immediate future. In the meantime, the club's stature and support have dwindled into a pale shadow of what it formerly was. To add to the downturn in fortunes, the club suffered relegation from the Premier Division for the first time in its history in 2005 and to complete a week of turmoil for the club, manager Roddy Collins was sacked in late November. Pat Scully former Kilkenny City Manager and Shamrock Rovers Player was appointed as the new Shamrock Rovers Manager in December 2005.