First Division

Athlone Town FC is to host a free open day at Athlone Town Stadium, Lissywoollen on Sunday next.

A memorial match in honour of the late Brideswell resident John (Sean) Gately will be held as part of an Athlone Town FC Open Day on Sunday next, August 15, in Athlone Town Stadium. John passed away suddenly in July 2009 aged just 52.

Cam Celtic, of which John was a founder member, will take on Willow Park in a masters (Over 35) friendly at 2pm. The game, organised ...

Athlone Town FC has confirmed it has lined up Middlesbrough FC and Port Vale FC for two upcoming friendlies.
Both clubs will bring their first team squads to Athlone, with the visit of Middlesbrough FC, under Gordon Strachan and assistant manager Gary McAllister, first up on Monday, July 19, at 7.45pm.

The club was in the Premiership as recently as May 2009 and its first team squad is packed full of household names, including former Arsenal striker Jeremie Aliadere, ex Rangers ...

Spain is rejoicing at winning the World Cup for the first time in its history on Sunday and now Athlone will host one of La Liga’s top clubs, Villarreal CF, which will bring a host of top internationals to play Athlone Town on Saturday evening July 24th.

Villarreal finished in 7th place in last season’s La Liga standings and was runner-up to Real Madrid as recently as 2007/08. The club will bring a full strength squad to Athlone with the exception of Joan Capdevila who played in ...

Eugene McGivern takes his regular look at football As Gaeilge

Tá jab crua ag an réiteoir gan dabht ach gan é (nó í) le súile géarra agus an fheadóg le fuaim árd agus caol níl bheadh cluiche peile ar siúl ar chor ar bith. Do thosaigh mé ag smaoineamh faoin fheadóg agus an sórt atá ag an fear/bean sa lár. Tá rogha maith le fáil; an Balilla A-1 Metal Whistle déanta san Iodáil á úsáid i Serie A, an Fox 40 Classic ó Ceanada á úsáid i gCorn an Domhain 1990, 1994 agus 2002, an Acme Cyclone ...

The Athlone Town pairing of Robbie Benson and Tom O’Halloran will this week travel to the Pirelli Stadium home of Burton Albion with the Irish Schools squad to take on England in what will be the deciding fixture of the Centenary Shield. Both players have played an important part for the Republic of Ireland in the two previous games in this highly regarded Under 18 tournament. In the previous game against Scotland in Finn Park, Ballybofey Tom O’Halloran ended up on the scoresheet after being set ...

Eugene McGivern a regular contributor to both the Athlone Town matchday programme and www.athlonetownfc.ie gives his views as Gaeilge

Cad a chruthíonn asmaisféar maith nuair atá cluiche sacar Airtricity ar siúl in Éireann? Ceapaim go bhfuil sé tábhachtach nuair atá tú ag teacht cóngaracht don phairc nach mbeadh eagla ort chun dul isteach tríd an geata agus tú ag an faiche spóirt sin don céad uair riamh. Nuair nach bhfuil na stíobhard sábháilteachta garbh nó mí-chairdiúil, sin tús ...

It’s “El Classico” midlands’ style this Saturday 24th April in Athlone Town Stadium when Longford Town are the visitors for the second midlands’ derby of the season. Kick Off 7.30pm.

With crowds up for the season so far and the locals getting behind Brendan Place in his second season in charge a bumper crowd is expected to see to sides who have had contrasting starts to the season. Athlone have made a solid start to the season conceding only 2 goals so far but only scoring three. ...