An under strength Glentoran U20s team without six regulars recently promoted to the first team squad - Paul O'Neill, James McCarthy, Mal Smith, Paul McLaughlin, Jamie Glover and Sean Gallagher (three of whom played in the weekend's win over the same opposition) - paid the price for a nightmare opening ten minutes this evening but remain third in the table.
Full match report here
Danske Bank and the NI Football League are calling for nominations for Danske Bank Premiership club SuperFans! Do you know someone who deserves recognition?
To recognise the lifeblood of the game and give something back to the incredible fans the NI Football League, in partnership with Danske Bank, have launched the Danske Bank Premiership SuperFan Awards for the second year.
Do you know a football SuperFan? NIFL and Danske Bank want you to nominate and reward someone at Glentoran to win a 2019 Danske Bank SuperFan Award, and a season ticket for the 2019/20 campaign.
Glentoran sealed a minimum of a third place finish in the league this season with a hard fought 2-1 win over third placed Cliftonville at the Oval. The Wee Glens goals came from Ben Cushnie with his twelfth goal of the season and skipper Malachy Smith. Mal's goal was remarkably his sixteenth goal fron right back this term. A young Colin Nixon or Mark Glendinning in the making!
A full match report is here
Four young Glentoran players have been included in the Northern Ireland squad for the Elite Round of the European Women's Under 17 Championship Qualifiers hosted in Portugal this week.
The four deserving players are:
Danielle Maxwell
Olivia Marshall
Kerry Beattie
Joley Andrews
Kerry, Olivia and Joely
Congratulations to our first team players Nathan Kerr and Cricky Gallagher who were in the starting line up for Northern Ireland Under 21s in their international friendly v Bulgaria in Spain this afternoon. Northern Ireland won the match 1-0 with a first hald goal from Sayne Lavery (Everton).
Next match - also in Spain - is on Monday when the boys take on Mexico.
The Glens first team squad supported World Down Syndrome Day 2019 tonight at training at Aquinas by wearing odd socks for Odd Socks Day.
Kitman Sean McManus (ironically the only man in the photograph not actually wearing socks!) organised the supply of odd socks to the players. Hope he has them back in the right place in time for our visit to Solitude. After the kit debacle before our recent match at Coleraine Showgrounds we can't take any chances!
Glentoran Under 20s got back to winning ways after a ten day break for International matches with a 6-1 win over Ballymena United. Goals came from Mal Smith, Sean Wallace, Ben Cushnie, Sean Gallagher and Benji Magee with his first two goals for the U20s.
A full match report at https://www.glentoran.com/u20s-news
Northern Ireland Manager Michael O'Neill returned to the scene of his 2002-2003 Championship triumph as a key member of Roy Coyle's Glens team this week when he brought his senior squad to the Oval for training sessions ahead of Thursday's home Euro 2020 Qualifier v Estonia.
Everyone at Glentoran was delighted to welcome the national squad and wish them all the best for the forthcoming campaign. Photographs by Pacemaker
Another extremely proud weekend for our Academy that saw no fewer than seven graduates featuring in our first team’s Danske Bank Premiership away win over second placed Ballymena United. The boys in question were James McCarthy and Paul O’Neill. (who both started) and Sean Og Gallagher, Malachy Smith, Paul McLaughlin, Jack Henderson and Sean Wallace who were all on the bench. Their fellow Academy graduate Jamie Glover, who picked up an injury in Northern Ireland’s Centenary Shield win over Scotland last Thursday, made an excellent first team debut the previous week at home against Ards.
Our away Danske Bank Premiership match with Cliftonville has been rearranged for Saturday, March 30 at 3pm.
The match was originally scheduled for this Saturday but has been postponed due to the call ups for Nathan Kerr and Cricky Gallagher for the N.Ireland Under 21 squad.
