Bryansburn Rangers F.C.

Bryansburn Rangers Football Club

Full name	Bryansburn Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Burn, B burn, Rangers
Founded	1974
Ground	Ballywooley Park Crawfordsburn Road, Bangor
Chairman	Alan Dempster
Manager	Stuart Mellon
League	NAFL
2013/14	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Bryansburn Rangers is a Northern Irish football club playing in Division 1C of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club play their home matches at Ballywooley Park on the Crawfordsburn Road, Bangor County Down Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1974 and joined the Amateur League in 1984.

Bryansburn field four senior teams in total. As well as the first team, there is a second team playing in Northern Amateur Football League Division 3D along with 3rd and 4th teams competing in the Down Area Leagues (Divisions 1 and 2B respectively).The first team where promoted to Division 1A at the end of 2009/10 season, however 2 back to back relegation's left the team in 1C.

Bryansburn Rangers also field eight junior teams in total form Under 10s through to the Under 19s who compete in various leagues across Northern Ireland, including the South Belfast Youth League, South East Antrim football league & Ards Borough Youth Development League (ABYDL). With a full youth set up combined with 4 senior teams Bryansburn are considered as one of the biggest amateur football clubs within the local area.

The first team is currently managed by former Crusaders F.C. defender Stuart Mellon. Mellon signed for the club in 2013 with the intend of continuing to play, however when former manager Peter Cooling re-signed only a few days after taking the position, Mellon was appointed manager a short period after.

The club compete in the a number of cup competitions in Northern Ireland, such as the Steel & Sons Cup, the Irish Cup, the Irish Intermediate Cup, the Clarence Cup and the Border Cup.

Squad 2013-2014

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	NIR	William Close
2	DF	NIR	Jordan Parkes
3	DF	NIR	Alan McMullan
4	DF	NIR	Ross Gray
5	DF	NIR	Andy Cooling
6	MF	NIR	Phil Tyson
7	MF	NIR	Mark Coard (C)
8	MF	NIR	Craig Cooling
9	FW	NIR	Stuart Morrison
10	FW	NIR	Tom Mcgreevy

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
11	FW	NIR	Mark Tolson
12	MF	NIR	Ricky Thompson
13	FW	NIR	Ben Stanex
14	DF	NIR	John keyhoe
15	MF	NIR	Neil Mallon
16	MF	NIR	Graham McMullan
17	DF	NIR	Andrew McCleod
18	MF	NIR	Matthew Higginson
19	MF	NIR	Ross McMullan

Honours

Junior honours

• NAFL Division 2C:
  • 1996/97
  • 2000/01

Notable former players

• Josh Magennis, international professtional footballer from Northern Ireland, currently playing for Aberdeen F.C. in the Scottish premier league.

Club Officials

• Chairman: Alan Dempster |nat=NIR|
• Secretary: William Heron
• Treasurer: David Armstrong
• Groundsmen: John Russel & William Heron
• 1st team Manager: Stuart Mellon
• Assistant Manager: Courtney McMullan
• Club Captain: Mark Coard
• 2nd team Manager: Alec Jones
• 3rd team Manager: Alan Dempster
• 4th team Manager: Alan Ferris

External links

• Bryansburn Rangers Official Club website
• nifootball.co.uk - (For fixtures, results and tables of all Northern Ireland amateur football leagues)