Banbridge Rangers F.C.

Banbridge Rangers Football Club is an intermediate-level football club playing in the Intermediate A division of the Mid-Ulster Football League in Northern Ireland. The club is based in Banbridge and has two senior Men's teams and a youth set up incorporating boys and girls teams from Under 7s to Under 19s.

Banbridge Rangers
Full nameBanbridge Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s)BanGers
Founded2005
GroundCheney Park
ChairmanJohn Clyde
ManagerJeffery Brady
LeagueMid-Ulster Football League Intermediate A
2018–19Mid-Ulster Football League Intermediate A, Champions 19/20

The club started off in the Newcastle League in 2005–06, before joining the junior ranks of the Mid-Ulster League in 2006 and won Division 4 in the 2006–07 season. Intermediate status was achieved by the end of the 2008–09 season with a move to the new 3G facility at Cheney Park. In 2010/11 they won the Alan Wilson Cup, finished 3rd in Intermediate B and made the Quarter Finals of the Intermediate Cup. In 2011/12 they won Intermediate B and the Alan Wilson Cup. Banbridge Rangers have also won the Banbridge District Charity Cup in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012.[citation needed]

Richard McMinn managed Banbridge Rangers from 30 December 2013 until 31 May 2016. Lee Feeney was then appointed Manager on 3 June 2016 and remained in charge until 16 July 2018. Banbridge Rangers finished as Runners-Up in the 2017/18 Season. Clifford Sterritt was appointed as Manager on 17 July 2018 and was then succeeded by Alastair Wilson on 27 December 2018. Banbridge Rangers won the 2018/19 MUFL Marshall Cup on Friday 24 May 2019 with a 2–0 win over Valley Rangers. The following season they won the Mid-Ulster Football League Intermediate A title 19/20.[1]

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  1. ^ Rangers set sights on lofty heights, The Park, pp.6-7, Belfast Telegraph, 17 January 2011
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