Mascots
Every season we offer the opportunity to children (aged between 5 and 11) to be a Glentoran Mascot at any HOME match at the Oval. Priority will be given to children who have not been a mascot in previous years.
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Warm Dutch Welcome for the Ballymac!
The Ballymac GSC continued its great history of European travel this weekend when a sizeable group of club members flew to Holland to attend a NEC Nijmegen Match. This was a follow up to a long standing invitation following a visit to Belfast, the Oval and Ballymac GSC clubrooms by a group of NEC Nijmegen fanatics back in February 2017 for the Danske Premiership “Big Two” game against Linfield.
Glentoran 1-1 Ballymena United
For the second time this season Glentoran welcomed the Sky Sports cameras to The Oval and they witnessed a frustrating 1-1 draw with Ballymena United.
Tonight's Gazette
There's something of an Italian theme to tonight's Glentoran Gazette for our Danske Bank Premiership game against Ballymena United. We have the second part of Sam Robinson's tale of reuniting Rab McCreery with his jersey from our European Cup tie with Juventus and Rab relates his memories of taking on Claudio Gentile. Then our Italian Glenman, Giampaolo Tassinari, looks back at Ballymena United's Cup Winners' Cup tie with another Italian giant, AS Roma. Plus the concluding part of Brian McClelland's story of Peter Doherty, a look at Arthur Stewart who served both of tonight's opponents w
Shades of Leeds 1971 in Glens U18 Wonder Goal
Football people of a certain vintage will remember an iconic goal from Leeds United v Southampton in 1971. Well our Under 18 boys matched it yesterday at Seaview v St Oliver Plunkett U18 in the NIBFA National League. 20 passes all over the pitch, completed by a wonder strike to finish from Benji Magee.
Watch and enjoy.
Match Preview vs Ballymena
Glentoran v Ballymena United
Monday 6th November, 7.45pm.
Elliott is Player of the Month - Again.
For the second successive month, Elliott Morris has been voted Glentoran Supporters’ Player of the Month.
In what was a disappointing month for the team, compared to August and September, Elliott maintained his usual high standards in goal and received 29% of the vote.
Runner-up this month was our young right back, Nathan Kerr who has firmly established himself as a supporters’ favourite since joining from Stevenage Borough in the summer. Also polling well were Eoghan McCawl, Marcus Kane, Calum Birney and Curtis Allen.
October Player of the Month
This season, each month there will be a Glentoran Player Of The Month, voted on by Glentoran supporters. The poll will appear following the last game of each calendar month and the winner announced on this website early the following month.
Just place your vote beside your choice. Voting closes at 11.59pm on Saturday 4th November with the winner will be announced the following day.
Coleraine 3-0 Glentoran
Coleraine remain top of the Danske Bank Premiership following a straightforward win against Glentoran at the Showgrounds.
The Glens went into the game without Nathan Kerr, Calum Birney and Eoghan McCawl (all injured) with Tre Sterling, Steven Gordon and Tiarnan McNicholl coming into the starting line up.
Match Preview
Coleraine v Glentoran
Saturday 28th October, 3.00pm.
This Saturday we travel to the Showgrounds to take on league leaders, Coleraine for the second time this season. There’s no doubt this will be a major test for us but we can go in the knowledge we are still the only team to take points so far from the league’s in-form team.