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Our under 14 squad who are travelling to holland in aprilnext year have announced their tour details. All the details are now on our website under 'Tours' section on our website. The team will play in the Holland Easter Classic that is one of hollands major football tournaments. They will stay at the famous De Eemhof centreparc.

Our annual Christmas drink for all coaches, committee members, players and parents is on Saturday 12th December in the Strand Bar after 9:30pm. This is just a social evening with a few drinks and a good opportunity to chat through the good and bad moments of the previous year. It is a great opportunity to mix with people and is open to all including partners so why not come along.

Our family fun day was a great success, despite the awful weather. A great crowd turned out for the day with Packie Bonner the star attraction for the event that doubled up with the official opening of the park.

NORTH WEST CUP FINAL:  STRAND CELTIC 1   CLIFFONEY-GRANGE  0
Strandhill Community Park

Strand Celtic Under 14s claimed the inagural north west cup with victory over a strong Cliffoney-Grange side in a rainswept Strandhill Community park on saturday afternoon last. Captain Jamie Gillen was also named player of the tournament by the tournament referees. The squad played five games to win the tournament with teams from Leitrim, Sligo, Roscommon and Mayo.

More to follow later....

There is an exciting schedule of events for this weekend with our golf classic and community night on friday night, north west cup football tournament for under 14 teams including sligo, mayo, roscommon and leitrim and our family fun day and official opening of the park on sunday.

Club chairman Mick McEnroe received an email wishing the club all the best from FAI CEO John Delaney.

Sligo’s first ever under age soccer tournament takes place on Saturday next at the recently refurbished strandhill community park. It will see eight teams and over 140 players compete for glory. It forms part of an overall festival of football over the weekend.

Our first ever Glasgow Celtic summer camp was an outstanding success when held last week in Strandhill Community Park.

It took eight people to unload our new 'champions league style' dugouts on their arrival on thursday afternoon last.

Strand Celtic received their AVIVA club of the month award for April at the FAI AGM in Monaghan recently. This was a great achievement, beating four former winners to take the award.