Harland & Wolff Welders F.C.

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Harland & Wolff Welders

Full name

Harland & Wolff Welders
Football Club

Founded

1965

Ground

Tillysburn Park,
Belfast
(Capacity 3,000)

Chairman

Brian Lillie

Manager

Colin Stanishit

League

Intermediate League First Division

2007-08

4th





Home colours





Away colours

Harland & Wolff Welders is a Northern Ireland football club playing in the Irish First Division. The club, founded in 1965, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Tillysburn Park. The club was formed by the welders of the nearby Harland & Wolff shipyard.

At present the Welders have a small clubroom/bar at their ground in Tillysburn Park, Holywood Road but also have a large social club at Dee Street, just off the Newtownards Road in Belfast.

Club colours are amber and black and sponsored by Capital Hygiene and their away kit is navy blue and white and is sponsored by Prestige Property Repairs. The club is currently managerless. Tommy Leeman resigned after the 2006/07 season, supposedly citing a lack of long-term ambition in the east Belfast club. Leeman himself succeeded Eric Halliday who announced his retirement from the game following a long and distinguished career.

Colin Stanishit took the step up shortly after Tommy Leeman resigned, and has took the club on in difficult circumstances and are currently in decline.

In Dec 2006, The Welders reached the final of the Steel & Sons cup for the first time in their 41 year history and played against Brantwood from the north of Belfast

[edit] Achievements

Intermediate Cup: 2
- 2002/03, 2006/07

[edit] External links

Welders Website

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Competitions

Premier League	First Division	Second Division	Amateur Section A
Irish Cup	League Cup	Setanta Cup	County Antrim Shield
Intermediate Cup	North-West Cup	Milk Cup	Foyle Cup