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Northern Ireland's fastest growing sport - ladies football, returned to Bangor in 2006, after an absence of nine years, bringing the 'beautiful game' back to the seaside town.
Ladies football has gone from strength to strength with the NIWFA, who have continued to enjoy a massive growth in popularity.
Consequently at the start of the 2006 football season there were over fifty ladies clubs, in seven divisions, spread geographically all over Northern Ireland, growing even bigger in Season 2008.
With the sport rapidly losing its negative, stereotype image, it is now widely accepted globally as a entertaining and legitimate sport, with not only The World Cup, but the Ladies European Club Championships and more recently the Womens FA League Cup between Arsenal and Sunderland being screened by UTV Television. The 2009 FA Cup Final, featuring English Premier Champions Arsenal Ladies 2-1 triumph, was viewed by 23,000 spectators, where the North Londoners lifted the trophy, underlining the sport's popularity and the growing interest in the womens game.
With the emergence of more and more young females wanting to play football, particularly over the last decade, the trend has been set in a lot of local primary schools which has seen the sport thrive with the enthusiasm of 100s of kids welcoming it, as part of the physical education programme.
This pattern has progressed and is reflected in the secondary education sector, with many modern curriculums introducing ladies football to be on a par with more traditional female related sports like netball and hockey.

NDSAC Team of the Year 2009 - Bangor Ladies Football Club's Captain Cathy Duncan (left) picked up the award from
former Newcastle United and Northern Ireland international Keith Gillespie (right) Included are
Majella McCarthy (Marine Court Hotel) and Leanne McGarry (Assist. Manager).

The formation of a local side in 2006, gives young talented players the opportunity to get involved in the game of football on their own doorstep in North Down. Players can train and sign up for the Bangor club, and get involved in the team, who will be playing their 2010 home fixtures at the ground of Irish League side Bangor Football Club at Clandeboye Park, with the club affiliated and competing competitively in the N.I.W.F.A., again this summer.
Finishing the 2009 season as Divisional Champions, Bangor Ladies completed 14 league games, winning 13, and drawing the remaining one, to record the highest number of points (40) of any other women's football club in all the other seven divisions of the sports governing body, the NIWFA. The only flaw in the six month long campaign, which featured seven clean sheets, was a 1-1 draw with neighbouring rivals, 1st Bangor (Newtownards). The Club won the Bruce Mulligan Trophy as North Down Sports Advisory Council's TEAM OF THE YEAR 2009 in April 2010 in recognition of the record breaking achievements in 2009.
The 2009 season also saw thd North Down club also topped the league as the most offensively minded side in the Province - with 67 goals scored - 41 of which were converted by, statistically the best strike partnership anywhere in the whole country - Bangor Ladies strike partnership of Natasha Lee and Deirdre Savage.
Teenager Lee who netted 32 goals in the summer campaign, including 5 hat-tricks, was not only the leading markswoman of the Coca Cola Third Division, the 18 year old also ended the season as the most prolific striker in five of the countries divisional championships.
With Savage also netting 18, and finishing third highest goalscorer in the 3rd division, the Seasiders also boast the team with the biggest positive goal difference total, again in the whole Northern Ireland, having only conceding 11 goals in their successful campaign.

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TEAM of the YEAR 2009
2010 NIWFA REGISTRATION FORM (page 1)
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Bangor Ladies Football Club
2009 Player of the Year - Natasha Lee
Also the M.V.P. - the Most Valuable Player in 2009
and Top Goalscorer was presented with her trophies by Ivan Mellon
representing club sponsors Sammy Mellon & Sons of Bangor

With ladies football clubs springing up in Ards, Donaghadee and Portaferry, the time seemed right to establish a senior ladies football club in Bangor to represent the whole of North Down, giving local players the opportunity to play the beautiful game, whether just for fun, fitness or at a competitive level in their home town.

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Training for 2010 will commence on Sunday, February 21st, 2010, at Bloomfield Road Playing Fields, Bangor - with a programme of coaching which will concentrate on three elements of the modern day footballer: Physical - cardio vascular conditioning; tactical - team formations, offsides, principles of attack and defence; and finally technique - skills, shielding, heading, passing etc.

TRAINING FOR 2010 EVERY SUNDAY (Feb.. 21st)
NEW PLAYERS ALWAYS WELCOME

SHOOTING - BLOCKING - TACKLING - SHIELDING - PASSING

The move to Bangor F.C., in 2007 signals what will be a permanent long term relationship between the Irish League Championship side Bangor and previously named North Down Ladies, joining the Irish League club. Bangor Chairman Trevor Best and Bill Peden having met with the ladies to discuss a number of very positive proposals which now sees the ladies section now well established at the Clandeboye Road venue, as the official Ladies Section of Bangor Football Club - a move which will no doubt cement the future for Northern Ireland's No. 1 ladies football club in 09, and give both clubs a bigger profile in the town with a number of joint ventures planned over the next few months.
Another of the main attractions for the membership in 2010 will be a possibility of an opportunity of a another scholarship and possible Professional Contract in Iceland next May - by invitation of the Icelandic Football Association who visited Clandeboye Park in 2006. Bangor Ladies have established strong links with a number of coaches at Iceland's Premier club Fylkir, with a view of taking advantage of an offer of an annual scholarship for a local player every season. Bangor have since sent two players over in May, 2008 on Professional Terms.

For more information on Bangor Ladies Football Club - the Borough's only Premier Ladies football club and details of how to get involved in the "World's Fastest Growing Sport" just contact our Club Secretary by email at RACHEL BATES or phone/text to 0773 2277854. Or you may just want to consider coming along to the next training at the Bloomfield Road Playing Fields, Bangor, any Sunday afternoon (1.45 - 3.45 p.m.) from 21st February, and continuing throughout the Summer months - Bangor Ladies will make all New Players Very Welcome.

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Latest National Fixtures & Results
Fixture: NORTHERN IRELAND 1 BELARUS 1, Friday, 25th July

World Cup 2011 Qualifier, NK Inter Zapreaic - Zapresic - Croatia October 24th, 2009
CROATIA 0, NORTHERN IRELAND 1

World Cup 2011 Qualifier, The Oval, Belfast, October 28th, 2009
NORTHERN IRELAND 0, ICELAND 1

World Cup 2011 Qualifier, Stade de la Libération - Boulogne-sur-Mer, March 29th, 2010

French players Laure Lepalleur and Marie-Laure Deile (18) in the win over Northern Ireland
FRANCE 6, NORTHERN IRELAND 0


World Cup 2011 Qualifier, Windsor Park, Belfast - March 31st, 2010

NORTHERN IRELAND 0, FRANCE 4

World Cup 2011 Qualifier, Estonia - June 5th 2010
ESTONIA 2, NORTHERN IRELAND 1

World Cup 2011 Qualifier, Laugardalsvöllur - Reykjavik, Iceland - June 19th 2010
ICELAND 2, NORTHERN IRELAND 0

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