Limerick F.C.
Limerick Football Club is an association football club based in Limerick, Ireland. The club won the First Division championship of the League of Ireland in the 2012 season and thereby gained promotion to the Premier Division.
The first Limerick FC was founded in 1937 and has had a number of guises through its history, known at different times as Limerick FC, Limerick United, Limerick City and Limerick 37. Each manifestation of the club has been the sole representative of senior football in Limerick City since 1937.
Limerick FC won the League of Ireland title twice, in the 1959-60 and 1979-80 seasons, and the FAI Cup twice, in 1971 and 1982. They also won the League of Ireland Cup three times, 1976–77, 1992–93 and 2001-02. The club has competed in European competitions on six occasions, meeting such notable opponents as Real Madrid and Southampton.
Read more about Limerick F.C.: Stadiums, European Record
Famous quotes containing the word limerick:
“Galway is a blackguard place,
To Cork I give my curse,
Tralee is bad enough,
But Limerick is worse.
Which is worst I cannot tell,
They’re everyone so filthy,
But of the towns which I have seen
Worst luck to Clonakilty.”
—Anonymous. “Clonakilty,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)