Jacobs F.C.

Jacobs
Full nameJacobs Football Club
Nickname(s)The Red Necks[1]
GroundRutland Avenue
Crumlin, Dublin
LeagueLeague of Ireland
Leinster Senior League

Jacobs Football Club was an Irish association football club based in Crumlin, Dublin. Jacobs were one of the founding members of the League of Ireland and played in the league from 1921–22 until 1931–32.

Like several fellow early League of Ireland clubs, such as St James's Gate, Midland Athletic, Fordsons and Dundalk, Jacobs had their origins as a factory or works team. They were originally the football team of Jacobs Biscuit Factory.[2] They remained active as a football club until at least the late 1960s, playing in the round of sixteen of the 1968–69 FAI Cup.[3]

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  2. ^ Garnham, Neal (2004). Association Football and society in pre-partition Ireland. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 1-903688-34-5.
  3. ^ FAI Cup Rsssf [https://web.archive.org/web/20150525004214/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/iercuphistfull.html "Ireland - FA of Ireland Cup 1921/22-1993/94". Archived from the original on 25 May 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)