Since 1903

About Us

Becoming guardians of our club’s future, what does that mean for us, the people, the town?

Our Trust

  • The pur­pose of the Trust is to cre­ate a com­plete­ly new rev­enue stream 100% ded­i­cat­ed to sup­port­ing Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club and it’s activ­i­ties.
  • The essen­tial ele­ment of the Trust is that, while funds can only be spent on foot­ball club affairs , the Trust itself remains 100% inde­pen­dent of all own­ers at all times.
  • It is a resource for the club’ whose strength lies in an inde­pen­dence that is vest­ed in the fans and in the towns­peo­ple – IN OUR COMMUNITY
  • In this draft exam­ple each mem­ber of the trust, Exec­u­tive, Full and Asso­ciate is a full vot­ing mem­ber of the Trust
  • The con­cept is that the towns­peo­ple choose to sup­port the Trust to the degree that they can afford, which may alter from time to time based on per­son­al cir­cum­stances, but all of us get to know that we, our fam­i­lies, our town and gen­er­a­tions to come are play­ing an equal role in ensur­ing Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club con­tin­ues to exist, to devel­op and to flour­ish
  • Our con­tri­bu­tions secure the future of the club that we sup­port includ­ing the Acad­e­my which will be a per­ma­nent out­let for our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren

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Transcript

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0:22
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0:36
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0:47
it’s 15 years since the cup and leag
0:48
dou­ble was last achieved this after­noon
0:51
with two goals right at the start and at
0:53
the end of a hard­fought game L do now
0:55
take the cup to the bor­der to share a
0:57
pride of place in their tro­phy room with
0:59
a lead title but un do man­ag­er Jim mlon
1:02
today’s win anoth­er chap­ter in his
1:05
suc­cess­ful tenure with the club and for
1:07
unlucky Water­ford again fail­ure to
1:09
capu­do that has now left them with­out a
1:11
suc­cess in the tour­na­ment for 42
1:14
years Sli­go had to come at us and they
1:17
were com­ing at us hard and uh I think it
1:21
was Pat­ty Don head­ed a ball he kind of
1:23
head­ed it down H in at the edge of the
1:26
Box our own box and sha bne hit it long
1:30
and uh I was stand­ing at the halfway
1:32
line with the cen­ter half and it went
1:35
over our heads and uh I turned and went
1:38
and you know I had the pace to to beat
1:41
the the cen­ter halfway you have to make
1:43
sure you put it in and just as I came to
1:45
the edge of the Box the ball bob­bled
1:51
[Applause]
1:53
up man­aged to clip it over him and as I
1:56
did so uh I I ran into the keep­er and uh
2:01
but I just saw it Nes­tle in the net so I
2:03
was was more than hap­py to to see that
2:05
and it was one of the I sup­pose one of
2:07
the high­lights when you con­sid­er that
2:10
you know for
2:12
me um I had had a sit­u­a­tion where I had
2:15
the night­mare where I was told i’ nev­er
2:17
play again so for me all all of the
2:19
games um that I played in um were just a
2:23
bonus
2:26
[Music]
2:42
it’s all over and dor for the first time
2:45
in six years are the opal League of
2:49
Ire­land
2:52
Cham­pi­ons Pat
2:54
fen­land score the open­er for Pats after
2:56
7 min­utes from the penal­ty spot but Desi
2:59
Gold­man’s equal­iz­er from Mar­tin Lawler’s
3:01
free kick was suf­fi­cient to gain the
3:05
point that has brought the title back to
3:09
the for the first time since
3:12
1982 and tur o Conor a League win­ner as
3:15
a play­er with Bohemi­ans a League win­ner
3:18
as a man­ag­er with at lon­gone toown has
3:21
done it
3:22
again in Coun­ty
3:24
Live Well I mean h it’s so impor­tant
3:27
isn’t it the league cham­pi­onship and
3:30
Pats want­ed to win it so bad­ly but uh we
3:33
had gone through 32 match­es before that
3:36
we had been top of the league for so
3:37
long we had lost it we had bat­tled back
3:40
there was nobody going to take it from
3:42
us or our sup­port­ers tonight the sup­port
3:45
here and D do was
3:56
fan­tas­tic now St
4:00
fair­ly by
4:01
shell and rolled into the path of
4:03
mcnal­ty and Tom MCN has got the
4:10
goal and a quite remark­able score from a
4:14
quite remark­able goal scor­er Tom mcel
4:18
who scored the very first goal against
4:20
Cork City in the league of
4:24
Ire­land has now got the goal that could
4:26
deny them their very first League of
4:29
Ire­land champ cham­pi­onship and that is
4:33
that final score from Turn­er’s
4:36
cross Cork City Mill dor one and the
4:39
1991 B Goos League of Ire­land Cham­pi­ons
4:43
are
4:47
dor and the cham­pi­onship tro­phy the
4:50
board gosh of Ire­land is pre­sent­ed by Mr
4:54
Michael conell the chair­man of abor gosh
4:56
to the cap­tain of the win­ners in there
4:58
with a big SM in the face not the first
5:01
time he’s got a cham­pi­onship medal
5:02
that’s for sure Mar­tin Lawler of dund a
5:06
champ pos­i­tive
5:09
[Applause]
5:10
side
5:12
bigan boy halock halock yes
5:16
[Applause]
5:18
one1 Gary
5:20
halock who rat­tled in two against
5:23
Sham­rock Rovers in the semi-final has
5:25
got to do their equal­iz­er
5:32
mcgin­ness it’s there G hok
5:36
again 4 min­utes of the sec­ond half
5:40
gone and once again under aer­i­al threat
5:44
Bohemi­ans defense proves brit­tle we saw
5:47
it in the first half but dor had a few
5:49
free head­ers that dis­tin­guished tro­phy
5:51
80 years it’s been com­pet­ed for dor of
5:53
won it
5:55
again the FBI kbur cup for 200 two and
6:00
it
6:01
belongs to
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the can he set one up here can he score
6:07
one oh you bet he
6:09
can four min­utes played an explo­sive
6:13
start to this League Cup
6:15
Final Dane Massie what a bril­liant goal
6:19
back again it comes it’s to to and
6:23
odor and Steven O’Don­nell breaks the
6:27
dead­lock com­ing out of the sec­ond road
6:29
to Rifle the shot home and the return­ing
6:32
Cap­tain back after 6 months out with
6:36
injury scores the goal that puts the KN
6:39
back on top of the table
6:57
[Applause]
7:15
for
7:16
ganana ganon’s cross oh won­der­ful
7:18
arrival
7:22
wali­ni that’s a run from the deep and a
7:24
half and that’s a goal and a half
7:27
Patrick meleni 2–1
7:31
yeah we I said ear­li­er on he has­n’t been
7:33
in the game and but he is capa­ble of
7:35
scor­ing goals that’s the one thing he
7:36
has and we spoke about that as well Co
7:38
hav­ing all the play it’s anoth­er dou­ble
7:41
it’s done D’s day in the FBI
7:49
[Applause]
7:50
[Music]
7:53
cup the chance for Chris Shields to win
7:56
it for dor he sent the keep­er the wrong
7:59
way
7:59
and for the sev­enth time the D Crown the
8:03
EA Sports Cup cham­pi­ons the first since
8:06
2017 22 at the end of nor­mal and extra
8:09
time the D wins 65 on
8:12
penal­ties and for the fifth time in the
8:16
last six sea­sons the do are the
8:20
cham­pi­ons and right­ly saw amaz­ing
8:24
achieve­ment I mean this team could go
8:26
down is prob­a­bly one of the great­est
8:27
John because what they’ve achieved is
8:29
been absolute­ly phe­nom­e­nal 5 out of six
8:32
is seri­ous seri­ous num­bers and you look
8:34
at a great team for the past you know
8:36
the Rovers the fours and all that and
8:38
water four in a row or four out of five
8:40
shells three out of five Pats three out8:42
of four this side is five out of six
8:45
phe­nom­e­nal achieve­ment by a phe­nom­e­nal
8:47
bunch of play­ers fair­ness they hang on
8:51
robers equal
8:54
Flo­res Flo­res look­ing for Kel­ly M Kel­ly
8:59
man through the mid­dle is
9:03
McMil­lan and a final hatrick for David
9:06
McMil­lan and that sure­ly is
9:09
that not many of them come to K but was
9:13
a bril­liant fin­ish was a great
9:16
play and for
9:18
2020 the NBI C isor
9:30
their moments their time and at the end
9:33
of this strangest of Sea­sons it’s
9:35
famil­iar hands that tro­phy
9:37
[Music]

The decision to form the Trust as a limited company was taken at a meeting of concerned fans on Saturday 5th October 2024

The Board of the Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust was con­sti­tut­ed on the Mon­day the 2nd of Decem­ber 2024 fol­low­ing on from exten­sive work by a num­ber of sup­port­ers who came togeth­er to dis­cuss the con­cept fol­low­ing the poten­tial death of Dun­dalk FC as it faced bank­rupt­cy in Autumn 2024.

To date the Trust has over 200 mem­bers, and has sub­stan­tial funds avail­able to it giv­en the uptake in mem­ber­ship fol­low­ing the huge­ly suc­cess­ful launch of the Trust.

The elect­ed Board have been man­dat­ed to over­see the day-to-day run­ning of the Trust, and seek to imple­ment the views of our mem­bers in our work.

Goal keeper trying to deflect a football during a soccer game

Steps to Trust

The name Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust CLG was cho­sen

The deci­sion was unan­i­mous by those who attend­ed

The ini­tial draft of the Trust pro­pos­al was first giv­en to ‘The 1903 — Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Club’ by Bren­dan Ogle and Tony O’Kane on 25th Sep­tem­ber 2024, which was well received

The 1903, sub­se­quent­ly met with new Dun­dalk FC Own­er John Tem­ple. The 1903 then informed us that he did not want any new sup­port­er led fund rais­ing ini­tia­tives to com­mence until Christ­mas

Those who met on the 5th Octo­ber believed that due to the dire sit­u­a­tion at Dun­dalk FC, there was no time to wait in form­ing the Trust

The Trust is now incor­po­rat­ed as Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust CLG, Com­pa­ny num­ber 773621

The 1903 were advised that this meet­ing was tak­ing placeWe would like the 1903 to sup­port this essen­tial per­pet­u­al Trust ini­tia­tive

Our bank account is now open 

Our web­site is under devel­op­ment, dfcsupporterstrust.ie, with linked email address­es and social media plat­forms

The decision to form the Trust as a limited company was taken at a meeting of concerned fans on Saturday 5th October 2024

The Board of the Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust was con­sti­tut­ed on the Mon­day the 2nd of Decem­ber 2024 fol­low­ing on from exten­sive work by a num­ber of sup­port­ers who came togeth­er to dis­cuss the con­cept fol­low­ing the poten­tial death of Dun­dalk FC as it faced bank­rupt­cy in Autumn 2024.

To date the Trust has over 200 mem­bers, and has sub­stan­tial funds avail­able to it giv­en the uptake in mem­ber­ship fol­low­ing the huge­ly suc­cess­ful launch of the Trust.

The elect­ed Board have been man­dat­ed to over­see the day-to-day run­ning of the Trust, and seek to imple­ment the views of our mem­bers in our work.

Goal keeper trying to deflect a football during a soccer game

Steps to Trust

The name Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust CLG was cho­sen

The deci­sion was unan­i­mous by those who attend­ed

The ini­tial draft of the Trust pro­pos­al was first giv­en to ‘The 1903 — Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Club’ by Bren­dan Ogle and Tony O’Kane on 25th Sep­tem­ber 2024, which was well received

The 1903, sub­se­quent­ly met with new Dun­dalk FC Own­er John Tem­ple. The 1903 then informed us that he did not want any new sup­port­er led fund rais­ing ini­tia­tives to com­mence until Christ­mas

Those who met on the 5th Octo­ber believed that due to the dire sit­u­a­tion at Dun­dalk FC, there was no time to wait in form­ing the Trust

The Trust is now incor­po­rat­ed as Dun­dalk FC Sup­port­ers Trust CLG, Com­pa­ny num­ber 773621

The 1903 were advised that this meet­ing was tak­ing placeWe would like the 1903 to sup­port this essen­tial per­pet­u­al Trust ini­tia­tive

Our bank account is now open 

Our web­site is under devel­op­ment, dfcsupporterstrust.ie, with linked email address­es and social media plat­forms

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‘We’ Da Town

Why a perpetual Trust was proposed for the survival of Dundalk Football Club

The pre­vi­ous Trust effort was not incor­po­rat­ed & sim­ply dis­ap­peared. This is a per­pet­u­al Trust to help with all future issueOnly a legal body, prop­er­ly con­sti­tut­ed and pro­fes­sion­al­ly run, can con­tract and deliv­er what is required while report­ing and account­ing for all monies received in the man­ner pro­posedIt is envis­aged that the Trust will ulti­mate­ly be involved in big projects and large expen­di­ture requir­ing pro­fes­sion­al legal and finan­cial exper­tise

Board of Trustees

Guardians Elect

Gerry Lennon

Chair, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Cormac Gartlan

Vice-Chair , Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Tony McBride

Trea­sur­er, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Elaine Sweeney

Vice- Trea­sur­er, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

John (Bobby) Ogle

Min­utes Sec­re­tary, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Stephen Neary

PRO, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Stephen Todd

Mem­ber­ship Secretary/ Vice PRO, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Anne Reilly

Equal­i­ty & Inclu­sion Offi­cer, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Danny O’Connell

Direc­tor for Youth Engage­ment, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Dean Arrowsmith

Over­seas Out­reach Direc­tor, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Liam O’Neill

Dun­dalk Catch­ment Out­reach Direc­tor , Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Tony O’Kane

Board Mem­bers, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Rachel Kerley

Board Mem­ber, Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Paddy Malone

Com­pa­ny Sec­re­tary (Non Board) , Dun­dalk Foot­ball Club Sup­port­ers Trust

Trust

Trust — Belong — Legacy

Dundalk Football Club Supporters Trust

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Incor­po­rat­ed 13 Octo­ber 2024, Reg­is­ter Num­ber 773621

Meeting venues and dates will be advised to members by email