North Staffordshire Regiment F.C.

North Staffordshire Regiment F.C.

Full name	North Staffordshire Regiment Football Club
Nickname(s)	the Staffords[1]
Ground	none
League	Irish Football League
Home colours

The North Staffordshire Regiment Football Club was the association football team of the 2nd battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment.^[2]

History

While deployed at the Victoria Barracks, Belfast the team played in the Irish Football League for three seasons from 1896 until 1899.^[3][4] A regimental team also won the Munster Senior Cup in 1911–12.

The club's greatest honour was winning the Belfast Charity Cup in 1897–98, beating Cliftonville and Distillery en route to the final, at Solitude, where the club hammered Glentoran 4–0; Glentoran resorted to trying to kick the Staffords off the park and Glen's Johnston was sent off.^[5]

Colours

The club wore all black.^[6]

Honours

• Belfast Charity Cup: 1
  • 1897–98^[7]
• Irish Army Cup: 1
  • 1897–98^[8]
• Munster Senior Cup
  • 1911–12

References

1. "Football notes". Lisburn Standard: 8. 21 December 1895.
2. Ireland's Saturday Night, 5 September 1896
3. Northern Ireland - Final League Tables 1890-1998
4. 2nd Battalion deployments
5. "Football". Londonderry Sentinel: 6. 28 April 1898.
6. "Colours of clubs". Ulster Football and Cycling News: 7. 25 September 1896.
7. Ireland's Saturday Night, 23 April 1898
8. Ireland's Saturday Night, 16 April 1898