Larne F.C.

The club was founded in 1889 and plays its home matches at Inver Park. The club's colours are red and white, and the club's greatest rivals are Ballyclare Comrades and Carrick Rangers; their matches are known as "The East Antrim Derby". From 1972 until 2008, the club had senior status, but reverted to intermediate status when it failed to gain a place in the new IFA Premiership. The club regained senior status in 2016, when the NIFL Championship became the second tier of senior football for the 2016–17 season.

Larne have notably been runners-up of the Irish Cup on six occasions (1928, 1935, 1987, 1989, 2005 and 2021) and runners-up of the League Cup twice (1991–92 and 2003–04) without ever winning either Cup - a record in both respective competitions for the most final appearances without ever winning.[2][3]

After being taken over by Purplebricks co-founder Kenny Bruce in October 2018,[4] the club lifted the 2018–19 NIFL Championship title. This was the club's first ever senior tier league title, their first league title since an intermediate title win in 1972, and the first senior honour since lifting the Ulster Cup in 1988. This secured a return to the top flight for the first time since suffering relegation to the second tier in the 2007–08 season after failing to meet the criteria for the new IFA Premiership.

They also field a women's team, whose colours are red & white (home) and purple & black (away). Formed by a small committee of parents and friends of the Larne Colts in November 2004, they made history by being the first ladies' team to play at Windsor Park as part of the half-time entertainment during the Irish Cup final in May 2005. The ladies also have a junior team for ages 8–14. The Senior Ladies' team has recently been reincorporated back into the club. In their inaugural season (2018), they finished the season as the unbeaten North 2 League Champions, and also as beaten finalists in the North 2 League Cup.

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 Conor Devlin 2 DF  NIR Kofi Balmer 3 DF  IRL Graham Kelly 4 DF  NIR Albert Watson (vice-captain) 5 MF  IRL Fuad Sule 6 MF  SCO John Herron 7 MF  IRN Navid Nasseri 8 MF  ENG Mark Randall 9 FW  IRL Ronan Hale 10 FW  IRL David McDaid 11 MF  NIR Ben Doherty 13 GK  CAN Michael Argyrides 14 FW  NIR Andrew Scott

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  IRL Lee Lynch 17 MF  NIR Andrew Mitchell 18 DF  IRL Cian Bolger 22 FW  NIR Lee Bonis 23 DF  NIR Tomás Cosgrove 24 MF  NIR Jeff Hughes (captain) 26 DF  NIR Dean Jarvis 31 DF  NIR Elliott Wood 33 MF  NIR Harry Adair 34 GK  SCO Rohan Ferguson 36 DF  AUS Nicholas Aretzis 37 DF  AUS Ryley D'Sena 38 MF  NIR Caolan Donnelly

On loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 DF  NIR Max Greer (On loan at Knockbreda until 1st July 2022) 35 MF  NIR Dylan Sloan (On loan at Knockbreda until 1st July 2022)

As of match played 12 August 2021

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Agg.
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1QR	Bala Town	1–0	1–0	2–0
		2QR	AGF Aarhus	2–1	1–1	3–2
		3QR	Paços de Ferreira	1–0	0–4	1−4

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round

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