Wednesday 1st May
Kick Off 7.45pm
Tomorrow evening presents a final major opportunity for us to achieve something substantial from this season when Coleraine visit the Bet McLean Oval in the semi-final of the UEFA Europa Conference play offs.
Tomorrow night’s game is the first time these sides have met in the playoffs since their inaugural year of 2016.
It was a doubly great night for Glentoran Women at the 2024 Local Woman Sports Awards on Saturday night.
First the 2023 League and Cup Double winners – who went through the league season undefeated and won the Electric Ireland Cup for the fifth year in a row – was picked as Best Team of the Year (the award was selected from teams across all sports) and Head Coach Kim Turner won the award as Best Football Coach of the Year. Two awards that should be of great pride to the entire Glentoran family.
A reminder that season tickets are not valid for Wednesday evening's UEFA Europa Conference play off semi final v Coleraine at the Bet McLean Oval (ko 7.45pm). This is a game played under the auspices of NIFL and is treated as a standalone tournament apart from the Sports Direct Premiership.
On Saturday at half time the club was very pleased to welcome onto the pitch 3 true and much loved legends of Glentoran who were presented with their 250 Club membership cards from club Chairman Colin Jess.
Jonathan Russell has been voted Glentoran 'Player of the Year' for 2023-24 by the club’s supporters. Castlereagh GSC organised the vote at Saturday’s home game and Jonny came out on top with a very impressive 45% of the vote. He will be presented with his award by Castlereagh GSC officials before kick off in Wednesday evening’s European playoff semi-final with Coleraine.
Fuad Sule was runner-up in his first season with Glentoran, with David Fisher, Bobby Burns and Daire O’Connor also featuring.
An excellent – particularly second half – performance from a much changed, youthful Glentoran side comfortably ensured a home win at the Bet McClean Oval this evening in our final Sports Direct Premiership game of the season.
Both managers used this final game to give an opportunity to a number of the better players in their U21 and youth panels. In Declan Devine’s case this meant first team debuts for
Cliftonville – down to 10 players for the last 17 minutes – held out to knock Glentoran out of this season’s League Cup at Solitude tonight.
Both sides had the lead in a roller coaster first half. The Glens went behind after 6 minutes when after Ashleigh McKinnon blocked twice on the edge of the box the rebound fell to Caitlin McGuinness who hit home for the opening goal.
We are delighted to announce that the club has been awarded both NIFL Premiership and UEFA Licences for the 2024/25 season.
We are equally delighted to announce that Glentoran Women have secured licenses for the Women's Premiership and UEFA Women's Champions League following their third league title in four years..
Sincere thanks to all those volunteers who worked so tirelessly to complete the successful applications.
In Saturday’s Glentoran Gazette new team boss Declan Devine says he is determined to tackle structural on-field issues and gives us an injury update on the squad. He also speaks about today’s game while our writers pay tribute to retiring Crusaders’ boss Stephen Baxter and look at some of their top players.
Saturday 27th April
Kick Off 5.30pm
On Saturday evening we finish the totally forgettable 2023/24 Sports Direct Premiership season when Crusaders visit the Bet McLean Oval.
