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| Full name | Coleraine Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Bannsiders | ||
| Founded | June 1927 | ||
| Ground | The Showgrounds, Coleraine | ||
| Capacity | 2,500 | ||
| Owner | Bannsiders Holdings [1] | ||
| Chairman | Colin McKendry | ||
| Manager | Dean Shiels[2] | ||
| League | NIFL Premiership | ||
| 2023–24 | NIFL Premiership, 6th of 12 | ||
| Website | https://colerainefc.com/ | ||
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Coleraine Football Club is a professional[3] Northern Irish football club, playing in the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League.
The club, founded in 1927 hails from Coleraine, County Londonderry, and plays its home matches at The Showgrounds. Club colours are blue and white. The club won the Irish League title once (in 1973–74) and the Irish Cup on six occasions, most recently in 2017–18. They are also the only Irish League club to have won two successive all-Ireland competitions, lifting the Blaxnit Cup in 1969 and 1970. The club share a rivalry with Ballymena United.
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