Broadford Rovers Football Club (“BRFC”) was founded in 1978 and this year we celebrate thirty years of support for the young people and community of Ballinteer, Dundrum, Rathfarnham and Churchtown .
We began life with just one Under 10 team playing in the South Dublin Football League and we played our home matches at Broadford Park on Stonemason’s Way.
Our earliest club house/changing facility was a shipping container obtained from UCD. Even then we were seen as progressive as teams from most other clubs in the league had to change at the side of the road. The container is still part of the structure of our changing facilities at our lower pitch in Broadford Park.
The facilities that the club has since developed reflect the vision of the founding parents and the successive committees that have served the club over many years.
Club membership grew at an extraordinary rate as the surrounding community evolved and developed and our first infrastructural success was to obtain the use of extra pitches at Marlay Park. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council continues to supply us with pitches to serve most of our eleven a side teams.
In 1996 we broke unprecedented ground when we were able to open our excellent pavilion with showers and toilet facilities and separate changing rooms for opposition teams and referees. Again we progressed to this stage well in advance of many of our peer clubs in the area. We were successful in attracting a key National League club, Shelbourne FC, to Broadford Park to officially open the facility.
Our senior teams are affiliated to the Leinster Senior League, which is not far removed from the Eircom National League, and they play to a very high standard.
Our underage teams, participate in the Dublin and District Schoolboys League (“DDSL”) and the EBS South Dublin Football League (“SDFL”) while our female members participate in both the Dublin Womens Soccer League (“DWSL”) and the North Dublin League (“NDL”). All of these leagues, and our teams, operate under the auspices of the Football Association of Ireland (“FAI”).
Milestones As the club developed through the years training facilities were becoming an increasingly difficult issue.
In 2000 the committee embarked on a project to address this issue and develop all weather facilities in Broadford Park.
The outcome was the two all weather pitches located on Stonemasons Way beside the Glaxo factory.
This project required engagement with planners, quantity surveyors, a contractor and government departments with regard to grant support. The total cost was over €127,000.
Our All Weather Pitch was officially opened in May 2001 by then manager of the Republic of Ireland, Mick McCarthy, and Packie Bonner, former goalkeeper.
The benefits that these pitches bring to the club are enormous, from a financial and logistics point of view. All our teams can now avail of a training berth in all kinds of weather and it is also used on a Saturday and Sunday morning for our academy children, who are five and six years of age. As well BRFC teams, local adults keep fit during the week with five a side football, and there are varying shapes and sizes of former footballers of all standards, strutting their stuff, reliving past glories and of course getting valuable exercise.
Perhaps our most important development in recent years has been the addition of a Womens Section to the Club in 2002. Click on the link below to view the development and success of our Girls teams since 2002.
Our youngest members are the lifeblood of the club and following the development of the all weather facilities we established the Academy. Every weekend our Academy runs on the all weather pitches. The Academy caters for club members aged six years and below and is the platform for the long term sporting experience of all of the children of our community. History |
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