Keadue Rovers F.C.
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| Full name | Keadue Rovers Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Gulls | ||
| Founded | 1896 | ||
| Ground | Central Park, Keadue | ||
| League | Donegal Junior League Premier Division | ||
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Keadue Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Keadue, County Donegal, currently playing in the Premier Division in the Donegal Junior League. Founded in 1896, Keadue played their home games at Central Park. Nicknamed "The Gulls", Keadue are the most successful club in the history of the Donegal Junior League. The club's most famous past player is Packie Bonner, who signed for Celtic at the age of 17 from Keadue Rovers. Other famous sons to don the clubs famous candy stripes were Dennis Bonner Galway United, Tony Boyle, All Ireland winner with Donegal in 1992, Adrian Hanlon, All Ireland winner in 2012, Adrian Sweeney, Martin Ferry (formerly of Ayr United and Limavady United), Lee Boyle (formerly of Aston Villa) and Mark Forker (formerly of Hearts and Finn Harps), Carl McHugh who played for Bradford City in the 2013 English League Cup Final. Other names synonymous with the club are its most successful manager, Manus McCole, and groundskeeper, Anthony "Dutch" Doherty. The club celebrated its centenary in 1996 with Celtic playing a game at Central Park. In 2021 Keadue played the first game on their new pitch adjacent to the old pitch in Central Park. The new pitch is among the finest in the country. In August 2023 the club started work on an extension to the club house to facilitate the rapidly growing number of players at the club.