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Derry City Football Club ((アイルランド語:Cumann Peile Chathair Dhoire)) is a professional football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland. It plays in the League of Ireland Premier Division. It had spent the majority of its time in the League of Ireland in the Premier Division, the top tier of league football in the Republic of Ireland, but was expelled in November 2009 when it was discovered there were secondary, unofficial contracts with players. It was reinstated a few weeks later but demoted to the First Division, the second tier. The club are the League of Ireland's only participant from Northern Ireland. The club's home ground is the Brandywell Stadium and the players wear red and white striped shirts from which its nickname, the Candystripes, derives.〔(Derry City ), ''Albion Road'', 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2007.〕 Others refer to the club as the Red and White Army or abbreviate the name to Derry or City.〔"Derry City 4–0 Sligo Rovers", GetTogether.at, 17 October 2006. 〕 The club, founded in 1928, initially played in the Irish League, the domestic league in Northern Ireland, and won a title in 1964–65. In 1971, security concerns related to the Troubles meant matches could not be played at the Brandywell. The team played home fixtures away in Coleraine. The security forces withdrew their objections to the use of the Brandywell the following year, but in the face of insistence from the Irish League that the unsustainable arrangement continue, the club withdrew from the league. After 13 years in junior football, it joined the League of Ireland's new First Division for 1985–86. Derry won the First Division title and achieved promotion to the Premier Division in 1987, and remained there until the 2009 relegation. The club won a domestic treble in 1988–89, the only League of Ireland club so far to do so. == History == (詳細はcontroversial official title of the city – Londonderry – in its name,〔Nationalists generally refer to the city as "Derry", while unionists often term it "Londonderry". In 1928, the name dispute was not as politicised as it is today. See: "(City name row lands in High Court )", BBC News, 6 December 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2007〕 while also deciding against continuing the name of the city's previous main club, Derry Celtic, so as to be more inclusive to all identities and football fans in the city.〔"Derry City FC – A Concise History". ''CityWeb'', 2006. 〕〔Collins, Conor. (The History of Derry City ). ''Albion Road'', 21 November 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2012〕〔Including "Celtic" in the club's name would have been perceived as being a strong statement of Irish nationalist identity and would have alienated or proved unpopular with the minority Protestant community in the city.〕 Derry City was granted entry into the Irish League in 1929 as professionals and was given permission by the Londonderry Corporation to use the municipal Brandywell Stadium.〔 The club's first significant success came in 1935 when it lifted the City Cup.〔"Derry City FC – Honours List". ''CityWeb''. 〕 It repeated the feat in 1937, but did not win another major trophy until 1949, when it beat Glentoran to win its first Irish Cup.〔"The Great Cup Breakthrough", ''CityWeb'', 2007. 〕 It won the Irish Cup for a second time in 1954, beating Glentoran again,〔"Derry City's FAI Cup history". RTÉ Sport, 29 November 2006. 〕 and for a third time in 1964 – that year also winning the Gold Cup – despite the club's conversion to part-time status after the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961. This led to the club's first entry into European competition, in the 1964–65 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, in which it was beaten by Steaua Bucharest 5–0 on aggregate.〔(UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Season 1964–65 preliminary round ). UEFA, 16 January 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2012〕 The club won the 1964–65 Irish League and subsequently became the first Irish League team to win a European tie over two legs, beating FK Lyn 8–6 on aggregate in the 1965–66 European Cup.〔"Derry City vs FK Lyn". ''CityWeb'', 2007. 〕 Derry did not complete the next round, as the Irish Football Association (IFA) declared its ground was not up to standard,〔 after a game had been played there during the previous round. Derry suspected sectarian motives,〔Campbell, Denis. "(My team – Derry City: An interview with Martin McGuinness )", ''The Guardian'', 8 April 2001. Retrieved 30 April 2007〕 as it played in a mainly nationalist city and so had come to be supported largely by Catholics. The IFA, Belfast-based, was dominated by Protestants and it was widely suspected that it would rather have been represented by a traditionally unionist team.〔Cronin, Mike (2000) , International Sports Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, England, vol. 21, no. 1 (2001), p. 25–38. Retrieved 30 April〕〔Burdsley, Daniel & Chappell, Robert. (Soldiers, sashes and shamrocks: Football and social identity in Scotland and Northern Ireland ), Sociology of Sport Online, Brunel University, UK. Retrieved 11 May 2007〕 Relations between the club and IFA quickly deteriorated.〔Bradley, Steve "(Derry ponder a French Revolution )", ''ESPNsoccernet'', 14 September 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2007〕 There had been no significant history of sectarian difficulties at matches in the first 40 years of the club's history, but in 1969 the Civil Rights campaign disintegrated into communal violence, which were followed by 30 years of the Troubles.〔Bradley, Steve. "(Football's last great taboo? )", ''ESPNsoccernet'', 22 February 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2007〕 Despite the social and political unrest, Derry reached the Irish Cup final in 1971, in which it was beaten 3–0 by Distillery.〔"(Northern Ireland – Cup Finals )". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2007〕 As the republican locality surrounding the Brandywell saw some of the worst violence, numerous unionist-supported clubs were reluctant to play there. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) ruled the zone unsafe for fixtures and with the use of no other local ground feasible, Derry had to travel to the majority unionist town of Coleraine, over away, to play its "home" games at the Showgrounds. This situation lasted from September 1971 until October 1972 when, faced with dwindling crowds (most Derry fans were unwilling to travel to Coleraine due to the political situation and the longer journey) and dire finances, the club formally requested permission to return to the Brandywell. Despite a new assessment by the security forces concluding that the Brandywell was no longer any more dangerous than any other league ground and a lifting of the security ban, Derry's proposal fell by one vote at the hands of its fellow Irish League teams.〔 Continuing without a ground was seen as unsustainable and on 13 October 1972 Derry withdrew from the league amidst a perception that it was effectively forced out while a complex of victimisation and marginalisation developed within the nationalist community behind the club.〔 The club continued as a junior team during the 13-year-long "wilderness years", playing in the local Saturday morning league, and sought re-admission to the Irish League.〔 Each time, the club nominated the Brandywell as its chosen home ground but the Irish League refused re-admission. Suspecting refusal was driven by sectarianism,〔 and believing it would never gain re-admission, Derry turned its attentions elsewhere.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derry City F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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