GlensTV caught up rhis week with Head Coach Mick McDermott for an update on preseason, transfers and investment!
Glens TV also met and interviewed a very excited Tom Byrne, following the completion of his move to the club.
Glentoran Football Club is keen to recruit Match Day Stewards at the Oval for the 2019-20 Danske Bank Premiership season and beyond.
As a Safety Steward you will help to ensure the safety of our supporters and visitors from the time they enter the Oval until they depart. You will also help Glentoran FC in making significant financial savings and also in satisfying the conditions of our Stadium Safety Certificate.
Our away Danske Bank Premiership match at Larne, scheduled for Saturday 19 October, has been moved to Friday 18 October at 7.45 to accommodate television coverage.
The club has completed the signing of former Drogheda United and St Patrick’s Athletic left winger and Republic of Ireland U19 player, Thomas Byrne.
Thomas (20) was a youth player with Brighton but has spent the past 2 years in the League of Ireland, where he was considered to be a very hot prospect with the potential to return to cross channel football. He played pre-season for Glenavon but picked the Glens after appearing in our recent friendly wins over Ballyclare Comrades, Knockbreda and PSNI.
Glentoran FC is delighted to announce the signing of defender Patrick McClean, pending a medical to be undertaken early next week.
Patrick (22) spent last season with his hometown club, Derry City. Prior to his time at the Brandywell, he captained Waterford to promotion from the League of Ireland First Division in 2017 and had a year in the Premier League with Sligo Rovers before returning to Derry City, where he had been a youth team player. He had been approached to sign for Cliftonville but elected to join the Glens after meeting Mick McDermott and Paul Millar.
Ricky Rea has been appointed to the position of full time Club Secretary at Glentoran FC. Ricky – a lifelong Glentoran supporter and a founder of the North Down GSC - has fulfilled the role on a part-time volunteer basis for the past six years but as the club moves in the direction of full-time football, the Board of Directors decided that a full time Secretary was a vital component of a professional club.
Two second half goals from Kerry Beattie secured a 2-1 win over Crusaders in tonight's Toals' County Antrim Cup Final at Seaview. The Glens played for the last 30 minutes with only 10 players after skipper Jess Foy was adjudged to have handled in the area to concede a penalty that allowed Crusaders to equalise Beattie's opener.
Remarkably tonight's victory means that the Glens are currently holders of all three domestic knockout cups after previous final wins over Sion Swifts and Linfield.
Given that Glentoran Women have won the last two cup tournaments n Northern Ireland with final wins over Linfield and Sion Swifts, tomorrow night (Saturday 27 July)we go for three in a row with a visit to Crusaders Strikers at their home ground at Seaview in the Final of the Toals Women's Cup. The match kicks off at 7.30pm.
En route to the final our results have been:
Round One: Belfast Celtic 0 – 17 Glentoran
Round Two: Glentoran 13 – 0 St James Swifts
Semi Final: Glentoran 5-0 Cliftonville
The new 2019/20 Home Kit is now available for pre-order via at The Glentoran Superstore online. Orders will ship Monday 12th August. Check it out at the link below.
http://www.glentoransuperstore.com/
The Superstore at The Oval launch information -
For almost three decades in the first half of the twentieth century, Glentoran Football Club adopted a very distinctive style of playing kit.
The three-block colours of red green and black would be worn by heroes of the east, such as Geary, Roberts, McCarthy, Hughes, Lowry, Ewing, Blanchflower and Bingham.
