who are Irelands most famous club?

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 1:39 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

Why are people so obsessed about Roddy? It's not about the manager, it's about securing the future of Ireland's most successful and most famous club.KOH

how do you measure this? thought i'd google the club names. Used the same format for each one. Name & football club
Premier Division in order

Results 1 - 10 of about 26,700 for bray wanderers football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 30,900 for finn harps football club. (0.25 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 50,700 for longford town football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 51,900 for shamrock rovers football club. (0.14 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 59,400 for shelbourne football club. (0.09 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 89,900 for ucd football club. (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 93,600 for drogheda united football club. (0.49 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 98,400 for derry city football club. (0.19 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 112,000 for bohemians football club. (0.60 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for waterford united football club. (0.75 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 256,000 for cork city football club. (0.26 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000 for st patrick's athletic football club. (0.21 seconds)

Pats would seem to be the winner with Cork city a close second. Rovers way down the bottom.

Dublin City surprised me

Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds)

**De Town** · 26/05/2005, 1:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ringo

Dublin City surprised me

Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds)

I presume thats a p�ss take

**Eire06** · 26/05/2005, 1:43 PM

Originally Posted by Ringo

how do you measure this? thought i'd google the club names. Used the same format for each one. Name & football club
Premier Division in order
Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds)

Put quotation marks around the club name to get the exact phrase and its a different story!!

"dublin city football club"
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,250 for "dublin city football club". (0.07 seconds)

Not doin the rest cause couldn't be bothered!!

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 2:04 PM

Originally Posted by DE TOWN

I presume thats a p�ss take

Yes

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by Eire06

Put quotation marks around the club name to get the exact phrase and its a different story!!

"dublin city football club"
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,250 for "dublin city football club". (0.07 seconds)

Not don't the rest cause couldn't be bothered!!

Results 1 - 10 of about 163 for "shamrock rovers football club". (0.11 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 989 for "galway united football club". (0.60 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 493 for "cork city football club". (0.06 seconds)

how could we measure this?

**De Town** · 26/05/2005, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 163 for "shamrock rovers football club". (0.11 seconds)

**Risteard** · 26/05/2005, 2:07 PM

Eire 06 is right. Sure any article which says a bit about any dublin club is going to use the words dublin & city.

**De Town** · 26/05/2005, 2:09 PM

Results 1 - 10 of about 935 for "longford town football club". (0.31 seconds)

**drinkfeckarse** · 26/05/2005, 2:10 PM

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.

**Poor Student** · 26/05/2005, 2:12 PM

Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.

Don't be so sure anymore. A lot of foreign people I talk to only know Shelbourne due to their recent European exploits.

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 2:15 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

Don't be so sure anymore. A lot of foreign people I talk to only know Shelbourne due to their recent European exploits.

Results 1 - 10 of about 690 for "shelbourne football club". (0.05 seconds)

**carrickharp** · 26/05/2005, 2:15 PM

Results 1 - 10 of about 497 for "finn harps football club". (0.06 seconds)

**Schumi** · 26/05/2005, 2:18 PM

Who ever writes "X football club" on a website? "X FC" is much more likely.

**Poor Student** · 26/05/2005, 2:21 PM

Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 690 for "shelbourne football club". (0.05 seconds)

We get the joke already Ringo.

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

We get the joke already Ringo.

Results 1 - 10 of about 68 for "ucd football club". (0.05 seconds)

**Poor Student** · 26/05/2005, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 68 for "ucd football club". (0.05 seconds)

The football club part isn't necessary. Just leave UCD and you'll get the accurate picture.

**Ringo** · 26/05/2005, 2:36 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

The football club part isn't necessary. Just leave UCD and you'll get the accurate picture.

yeah your right, we'll just leave out city & football club

**atfconline** · 26/05/2005, 2:47 PM

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,070 for "athlone town football club". (0.30 seconds)

**BohDiddley** · 26/05/2005, 2:48 PM

Your search Dublin City Football Club did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords (e.g. 'Home', 'Farm', or 'Everton')
- Try more general keywords
- Try following a real club

PS:
- Note that there is no such entity as 'Bohemians FC'. Try to keep up!

**dcfcsteve** · 26/05/2005, 8:06 PM

Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.

I'd disagree.

Firstly - what exactly is "most famous". I'm assuming it's that if you asked people around the world to name an Irish club, it would need to be the first one they said.

Football fans all over Europe pretty much know the names of one or two clubs in every country. This knowledge is mostly gained through those teams appearing in, and doing well in, European competition.

At the moment, I'd say Shels would be by far "the most famous club". Their victory over Split combined with their games against Deportivo and Lille gave them a lot of exposure, and people's memories aren't very long.

The English lads I play football with have only really heard of Shels, though one did say Cork when I asked them about Irish footie (though I reckon that was more of an obvious guess). One lad had also heard of Glentoran through a Uni mate, and most knew Linfield (albeit with a bit of prompting in cases.

I'd say that would be repeated around Europe - particularly in Spain, France and Croatia. I doubt if Rovers would even be the most famous club in Poland, even though they played Odra 3 years ago....