LoI supporters clubs abroad

[Runner Man]

Ahoy hoy,

Does know of any League of Ireland clubs that supporters clubs outside of the country. I know there's a RISSC in London that caters for all republic of Ireland soccer but just wondering if there suppportes club abroad for specific clubs.

Cheers!

[sligoman]

Think Derry have something in Isle of Man? Of course that could be just 1 supporter, I'm not sure. Derry fans can clear that up.

[Dodge]

Pats have one in Norway. It had to register with some Norwegian authority... Must find a link

[holidaysong]

There is the QUBDCFCSC if you consider that to be outside the 'country'..

[Dodge]

http://www.threelions.no/supporter.htm

Half way down page. Seems to be a Cork one too

[dcfcsteve]

Think Derry have something in Isle of Man? Of course that could be just 1 supporter, I'm not sure. Derry fans can clear that up.

City have the London Derry City Supporters Clubs, and the Exiles Club (co-founded by that Isle Of Man supporter) that covers anywhere else outside of Oireland.

Back in the halcyon days of the late 80's we had Supporters Clubs everywhere - America, Canada, Australia, various parts of England and Scotland. Magical times....

[brendy_éire]

There is the QUBDCFCSC if you consider that to be outside the 'country'..

So that would be all of ours, except Donegal and Dublin? :D

We have an Exiles, which caters for everyone, anywhere really (including the IoM). There's also a London SC. There is a North East England one, but they may have merged with the Exiles.

[Djrgrn]

Pats have a Norwegian supporters club??? WHAT?! Hammarby and Shamrock Rovers claim to have a 'connection' although its only cause they both wear green and white. Think there's a fair few Boh's fans abroad but I don't think there's any 'clubs'.

[Dodge]

Yeah, loads of LOI fans abroad and a few who we've met abroad would lok up our results (league wide, not talking about Pats) but I don't think there are any organised clubs

[robertob]

In Germany are only a few fans of the league of Ireland.
I know from a guy in Bremen who is a member of the Shamrock Rovers Ultras and some other people who supports Bohemians and Cork. However the most germans don't know that in Ireland actually is a football league. They are surprised if I tell them something about the League of Ireland. :p

[holidaysong]

Why would they be surprised that there is a football league in Ireland? I'm sure there aren't many countries in Europe (or the world) without a football league, especially a country with 4.2 million people.

[sligoman]

However the most germans don't know that in Ireland actually is a football league.That applies to most Irish people in this country too.

[Longfordian]

We used to have "Supporters Clubs" in London and New York at one stage but I think they lost interest when we stopped winning cups.

[GuisaSaigon]

The Saigon branch of GUISA has been temporarily disbanded for a couple of years;):D

[dcfcsteve]

We used to have "Supporters Clubs" in London and New York at one stage but I think they lost interest when we stopped winning cups.

That must have been some week for them though....!

:D

[dcfcsteve]

Think there's a fair few Boh's fans abroad but I don't think there's any 'clubs'.

That would help explain why so few of them were at Dalymount on Friday to see their team lift it's first league title in 5 years then....

[fionnsci]

I think that Cork City have a foreign (Italian maybe?) fan club that have been to a few games like last years cup final.

[Longfordian]

That must have been some week for them though....!

:D

Ha, yeah they appeared out of the woodwork in about December 2003 and disappeared again about September 2005 as far as I can see!. Still we got a bit of money out of them while they were there.

[BohDiddley]

Think there's a fair few Boh's fans abroad but I don't think there's any 'clubs'.
Sadly, our Timbuktu and Albuquerque chapters faded out some time ago. (Not sure if their local team colours were black and red. Come to think of it, that's hardly the basis for a link now, is it?).
But we'd be happy just to have some Irish support, media and GAA/De Dubs permitting.
Anyway, the closest to a Bohs foreign legion is probably to be found on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Ireland/Bohemian-Football-Club/20869165701). Lots of interesting people from exotic places among 210 fans there.

[Paddyfield]

City have the London Derry City Supporters Clubs, and the Exiles Club (co-founded by that Isle Of Man supporter) that covers anywhere else outside of Oireland.

Back in the halcyon days of the late 80's we had Supporters Clubs everywhere - America, Canada, Australia, various parts of England and Scotland. Magical times....

London Derry Supporters Club?

Oh my, haven't times changed!

[MariborKev]

Indeed.

Their slogan is "Putting the London back into Derry"

Quality flag based on the London Tube sign as well.

[RonnieB]

We used to have "Supporters Clubs" in London and New York at one stage but I think they lost interest when we stopped winning cups.

A lot like the locals.

[Longfordian]

All too true. There's always some excuse.

[El-Pietro]

Cork City have an exiles supporters club, including members in foreign countries such as Dublin, England, Germany and the US
aside from that we have our link with Bologna and several Bologna fans travel to Cork every year, and a number of City fans reciprocate

[Rambling Along]

There is a Cork City supporters club in Bologna and a Bologna S.C in Cork.

There is a Ramblers supporters club in Canada.........there's 2 in it!

[Mental Man]

I have met a few Waterford over here in Seattle in Washington State and they used to follow LOI footie so you never know there might be an exiles Blues supporters club here sometime ;).

[redgav]

Cork City Exiles have a Dublin Branch (160-200 members),a London Branch (10-12 members),A new york Branch (10-12 members), ,A Scotland Branch (3 members),and a German Branch as well as the Bologna FC.We also ,just like Drogs,have a group of Portadown fans that travel to our games.I know there is a Portadown Drogs flag at a lot of their games

[dcfcsteve]

Cork City Exiles have a Dublin Branch (160-200 members),a London Branch (10-12 members),A new york Branch (10-12 members), ,A Scotland Branch (3 members),and a German Branch as well as the Bologna FC.We also ,just like Drogs,have a group of Portadown fans that travel to our games.I know there is a Portadown Drogs flag at a lot of their games

Where dioes your London branch meet to watch games Redgav ?

Are they new, as I've never heard peep of them before ?

[Burny89]

I'm part of the City Exiles Supporters Club. Not sure of our total membership but it must be about 70/80 going by way of the names on the email lists sent out. John Duddy is a member, and has been known to sport the exiles polo shirt in interviews as well as spreading the candystripe gospel with City flags in his corner and in the ring after fights. David Tennant (Dr Who) also signed up when he traced his grandfather back to being a former Derry player.
We've members in the US, Canada, Scotland, Isle of Man, Germany, England and the usual few nomads who have no home

[Ash]

... and the usual few nomads who have no home

The Shamrock Rovers Derry Supporters Club :confused: :p

[dcfcsteve]

The Shamrock Rovers Derry Supporters Club :confused: :p

Sure their team's never been the same since we took their manager and half their team in the late 80's..... :D

[red bellied]

Sligo Rovers used to have a London supporters club as well as a New York one. Remember talking to some of the London boys who used to travel over regular enough in the 90's.

[Cosmo]

Like practically every other League of Ireland club we have supporters based all over the world - but the 2 most organised are probably the group of portadown supporters that go to all our home and away matches (im sure you've all seen their 'Portadown Drogs' flag when playing us which the portadown lads got done up themselves!!)

We also have a group of lads from Birminghan (about 20 odd of them) who haved a flag and call themselves BUDS (brimingham University - cant rememebr what the rest stands for) who are a mixture of brirmingham, west brom, villa supporters - one of them went to a wedding in drogheda (his cousins!!) and got hooked after going to a match while over and got the rest of the lads back home in brmingham hooked and they go to at least 1 match a year (and sponsor the ball for that match.)

Also had 2 drogs based in london who are ST holders at fulham and used sposnor a fulham player for the season under 'Drogheda United Supporters Club'

[thischarmingman]

We also have a group of lads from Birminghan (about 20 odd of them) who haved a flag and call themselves BUDS (brimingham University - cant rememebr what the rest stands for)

"...Drogheda Supporters..?"

:D

[dcfcsteve]

Also had 2 drogs based in london who are ST holders at fulham and used sposnor a fulham player for the season under 'Drogheda United Supporters Club'

We co-opted a Drogs supporter over here into City's London club two years ago.

He came up to Gretna with us for the craic - and ended up joining us for Paris and the 2006 Cup Final as well.

He's seen more of City recently than he has the Drogs.... :D