Phoenix Athletic FC

🏆🔥 TRISTAR TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! 🔥🏆

A massive congratulations to our Phoenix 2019 boys, who came away as TriStar Tournament Champions! ⚽

The boys were absolutely brilliant, playing some fantastic football and showing great teamwork, determination and confidence throughout the tournament. Every player played their part, and those medals were fully deserved! ❤️🖤

A big thank you to the coaches, parents and everyone who supported the team, and to TriStar for hosting a fantastic tournament.

Well done, boys — everyone at Phoenix is extremely proud of you! 🏆👏

🏆🔥 CHAMPIONS! 🔥🏆

A fantastic day for our Phoenix Flames 2018s, who came away as TriStar Tournament Champions! ⚽

The girls were brilliant, playing with determination, confidence and great teamwork throughout the tournament. Every one of them played their part, and we couldn’t be prouder! ❤️🖤

A massive thank you to the coaches, parents and everyone who supported the girls, and to TriStar for hosting a brilliant tournament.

Well done, Flames — enjoy your victory! 🏆🔥

Men's NWJL Season Kick off tomorrow

We would like to wish both our men's teams the very best for the season ahead as both sides kick off their seasons tomorrow.

It's been a busy summer for our men's group with the change of management. We would like to introduce Mark Kelly as the first team manager. Mark is a past player who has stepped up in recent years managing our Saturday morning team and has deservedly been promoted to first team manager,Barry McMenamin and Barry Nixon have been playing with our men's team now for a few years and they will now take in the roles as our reserve team managers, and the management team have done a brilliant job in recent weeks gathering together 2 strong squads and training has been going really well with players really putting in the hard work in preparation for their first competitive games in the NWJL.

We are also proud to announce that Liam McCormick has been named as our club captain. Liam has returned to us following spells at Derry City u19s and Greencastle FC. Liam joined Phoenix Athletic as a young boy playing in our under age teams for several years before getting an opportunity at Derry City u19s and this club means a lot to him. He is a fantastic role model for all our younger players with a great attitude to match his ability.

We would also like to thank the outgoing management team of Chris McGarrigle, Keith McLaren and John McDaid who have been extremely committed over the past 2 seasons doing a great job with some great Cup runs and signed off last week picking up a well deserved win at the brandywell lifting the Jimbo Crossan Cup. Thanks lads for all your dedication, it's greatly appreciated. We are delighted that the lads will be staying on to help our youth teams.

Best of luck to our players and coaches for the season ahead 🔴⚫⚽⚽

🔥⚽ PHOENIX 2011/2012 GIRLS – NEW PLAYERS WANTED ⚽🔥

Our Phoenix 2011/2012 Girls are looking to add a few fresh faces to an already established squad.

We’re looking for girls who have previous football experience, are comfortable on the ball and are ready to come in, compete, train hard and continue developing with the group. 💪⚽

The girls compete in:

⚽ D&D Harry Gregg League
🏆 Cup competitions
🔥 Foyle Cup
⚽ Plus other tournaments and friendly fixtures throughout the season

If your daughter is a 2011 or 2012 player and is looking for a new challenge with plenty of football, we’d love to hear from you.

Or if you’re a player seeing this post yourself and fancy a new challenge, feel free to get in touch too.

📩 Send the Phoenix page a PM for more information or to arrange a training session.

🔥 Come and be part of Phoenix! 🔥

🔥⚽ PHOENIX GIRLS 2016s – THURSDAY TRAINING MOVES TO BALLYMAC! ⚽🔥

Phoenix Girls 2016s are delighted to announce that our Thursday training sessions are moving to Ballymagroarty 3G, beside the park and behind the Community Centre.

📍 Tuesday: Brooke Park
🕕 6:00–7:00pm

📍 Thursday: Ballymagroarty 3G
🕔 5:00–6:00pm

The move gives us access to two-thirds of the big 3G pitch, providing the girls with much more space and helping us deliver even better training sessions.

🙋‍♀️ NEW PLAYERS WELCOME!

We would love to welcome girls born in 2016 from Ballymagroarty and the surrounding areas who would like to join the team or come along and try football.

No previous experience is needed—just come along, have fun, make new friends and enjoy playing football in a friendly, development-focused environment.

📩 If your daughter is interested in joining, please PM the page and we’ll send you all the details.

PHOENIX 2016s DEVELOPMENT TOURNAMENT ⚽⚽

We had the pleasure of hosting 2016 teams on Sunday past at St Joe's in a very relaxed and fun development event, the weather was superb and all the kids left with loads of football played and smiles all round.

A massive 10 teams took part, with some fantastic football played throughout the day. But more importantly, there were plenty of smiles, laughs and new friendships made along the way. ❤️🖤
A huge thank you and well done to all the teams who joined us:
⚽ Trojans
⚽ Phoenix
⚽ Artigarvan
⚽ Sion Swifts
⚽ Carndonagh
⚽ Don Boscos
⚽ TriStar
⚽ Redcastle
⚽ Eglinton
⚽ Cockhill

The tournament was designed to give every team the opportunity to play in a final, making sure everyone had something to play for right until the end.
🏆 Final Placings
🥇 1st – Carndonagh
🥈 2nd – Cockhill
🥉 3rd – Phoenix
🏅 4th – TriStar
🏅 5th – Artigarvan
👏 Congratulations to Carndonagh, our tournament winners, after a fantastic day of football!

❤️🖤 A special mention for our Phoenix 2016 team. The boys were absolutely brilliant all day, conceding just ONE goal throughout the entire tournament! Even better than that was the way they played with smiles on their faces from start to finish.
There were great performances right across the team, plenty of teamwork and, most importantly, they enjoyed every minute of the day. The coaches couldn't have been prouder of them. 👏⚽

A massive THANK YOU to every player, coach, parent and supporter who helped make the tournament such an enjoyable day.
Football, fun, friendships and plenty of smiles — exactly what a development tournament should be about! ❤️🖤⚽
Well done everyone and congratulations to all our teams! 🏆👏

D&D Men's SMARTPAY Jimbo Crossan Cup 🏆

Phoenix Athletic 5 Tristar 3

Congratulations to our men's team who rounded off a great summer of Cup competitions with a very good win over Tristar at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium yesterday. It was a very entertaining game played in front of a good crowd with some great goals. Tristar went ahead on 3 occasions however Phoenix kept playing their game and created plenty of chances and finished the game very strongly. Goals from Oran Deeney (2) Mark Healey, Oran Sweeney and Kealan Kelly sealed the win for Chris McGarrigle's men and it was a fitting reward for the team's efforts over the past number of seasons.
Jimbo Crossan was a giant figure in football here for decades and it was great to have Jimbo's family in attendance with his brother the legendary Jobby presenting the cup to captain Declan Harley after the final whistle.
Huge congratulations to a young Tristar side on a great performance and a special thank you to D&D men's committee Darren Smyth and Liam Smyth for keeping the summer cups going, it's greatly appreciated.

It's with a heavy heart that we post this asking all our members to keep the family of Yasmin Khera in our thoughts and prayers. We were all heartbroken and in shock when we heard the tragic news yesterday. Yasmin was such a beautiful young lady who attended many of our games to cheer on her younger brothers, always so friendly to everyone and so supportive of her brothers, Cruz who plays for our 2009s and Zayn who plays for our 2012s. Both lads are so talented and very popular amongst their team mates and we want to let you know that we are all here to support you through this most difficult of times.
Our sincere condolences to Yasmin's parents Marty and Lisa, we can not imagine the pain yous must be feeling now, sister Layla, brother's Cruz and Zayn and to Yasmin's wider family circle and many friends.
Yasmin's funeral will be at 12pm on Monday at Steelstown Chapel, may Yasmin rest in peace ❤️🙏

As a mark of respect a minutes silence will be observed in our men's final today