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⚽️ Park Rangers FC Weekend Match Round-Up ⚽️
What a fantastic start to the season across all age groups with some brilliant football, great teamwork and plenty of goals on display from our Park Rangers teams! 💙💛
🔵 U11D League
Park Rangers 4-1 Ferrybank
The boys hit the ground running and produced a superb team performance from the first whistle. A quickfire first-half hat-trick from Luke Doody ⚽️⚽️⚽️ put Park Rangers firmly in control before Daniel Keane ⚽️ added a fourth early in the second half. Ferrybank grabbed a consolation goal, but the lads never lost control and saw out an impressive victory. A fantastic effort from the entire squad and one the coaches were very proud of.
🔵 U11E League
Park Rangers 3-3 De La Salle
Fantastic First outing for this young side. Saw a Draw achieved.
Goals came from:
⚽️ Remy Pallas
⚽️ Samuel Lunch
⚽️ Noah Keane
Great spirit and determination shown by the squad throughout.
🔵 U13B League
Park Rangers 5-2 Stradbally
Despite the wet conditions, Park Rangers produced an excellent display against a strong Stradbally side. A quickfire double from Nathan ⚽️⚽️ put Park Rangers in control before Billy ⚽️ restored a two-goal cushion just before the break. The second half saw Ollie M ⚽️ and Joey ⚽️ add further goals to complete a deserved victory.
🎯 Assists
• Billy
• Ollie M x2
• Conor W
A tremendous team performance throughout the pitch, with every player contributing in challenging conditions.

🔵 U13C League
De La Salle 2-3 Park Rangers
A brilliant opening day victory for the U13C side. Park Rangers dominated the first half with Rian O'Meara ⚽️⚽️ scoring twice to give us a deserved 2-0 lead at the break.
De La Salle responded strongly after half-time and reduced the deficit from the penalty spot, but the lads showed great character to weather the pressure. With five minutes remaining, Kyle Carroll ⚽️ produced a stunning free kick into the top corner to make it 3-1. De La Salle pulled one back late on, but Park Rangers held firm for a deserved win.
⭐ Player of the Match: Rian O'Meara
🔵 U15C League
De La Salle 2-1 Park Rangers
A very competitive contest from start to finish. Park Rangers took the lead through James Giffney ⚽️, whose superb long-range free kick found the net in the first half.
De La Salle equalised from a corner before half-time and edged ahead with 15 minutes remaining. Despite hitting the post and crossbar and creating several late chances, Park Rangers were unlucky not to take a share of the spoils. An excellent effort from all 12 players involved in a game where a draw would not have been undeserved.
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💙💛 A Great Day for Park Rangers FC
Across all teams today, Park Rangers recorded:
✅ 3 Wins
🤝 1 Draw
⚽️ 16 Goals Scored
A fantastic start to the new season with every team showing great commitment, teamwork and determination. Well done to all players, coaches, volunteers, referees and supporters who made the day such a success.

U13B League
Park Rangers 5 - 2 Stradbally

The opening league game of the season gave the brave wet parents plenty of goals to enjoy in a highly competitive game against tough opposition from Stradbally…. The game started off in miserable rain but with the brighter skies above came a flurry of goals….

The match went from no score to us being 3-1 up in a 4 minute period shortly before half time..
A quick fire double from Nathan ably assisted by Billy and Ollie M had us take a 2 nil lead before a lapse of concentration and a superb effort from 50 yards out by one of Stradbally’s midfielders Saw it back to the minimum margin…
Some fantastic team play then led to Ollie finding a pocket of space and playing a superb ball thru to Billy to restore the 2 goal cushion before half time…

Into the 2nd half and tireless work from Conor W set up Ollie who finished well before another fabulous team move ended up with a great ball in to Joey who was fouled before he could make contact with the ball and was duely awarded a penalty…. Joey picked himself up and coolly dispatched the ball to the left corner to give us a nice cushion with a quarter of an hour left….

To their credit Stradbally kept going and were rewarded with another well taken finish with 10 minutes left to keep us honest but we managed to see it out well in the end…

A super team performance overall with Ryan sweeping up behind a solid back line of Tomas, Louis, Eamonn & Christopher…..
Our midfield of Conor Mc, Thomas, Olllie M & Conor W worked hard all day and set the platform for many attacks, with our wide men Joey & Nathan proving a threat and providing great ball for Will & Billy up top who knitted things together and were always available as an outlet for the others….

Huge thanks to our visitors Stradbally who provided a stiff test in a game played in a competitive but fair manner…

Thanks to Referee Tristan who kept things flowing for both sides…

Thanks to the parents for the vocal support from the sidelines.

And finally thanks to our main sponsor Des Stafford Consultancy & Associates for your support which is much appreciated 👏🏻👏🏻

Nathan ⚽️ ⚽️
Billy ⚽️
Ollie M ⚽️
Joey ⚽️

Assists
Billy
Ollie M x 2
Conor W

U13 C league
De la salle 2-3 Park Rangers u13B

A fantastic way to open up the season with a great display from the lads. No official ref today so we agreed to play it competitive with a de la salle club man taking the whistle. We started the game much better than our opponents, playing some good stuff and getting our passing going with Sean Pierce and Bea Lynch controlling things in the middle and every player showing for the ball. We looked far more likely to make the breakthrough and that we did when Leo Duffin poked the ball in behind for the energetic Rian O Meara to nip in and calmly slot it away. Rian doubled our lead less than 10 minutes later putting the defender under pressure and getting on the end of a ball he had no right to win to lift it over the keeper. 2-0 at ht and fully deserved.
The second half was more of what we expected from de la salle, they put us under pressure straight from the whistle. We had to defend a lot more and they were gifted a soft penalty 10 minutes in which they slotted to make it 2-1. I've seen many teams collapse when that happens, especially when our opponents were in the ascendancy, but our lads stood up to the challenge and defended well and managed to settle the game again. We went 3-1 up with 5 minutes to go when Kyle Carroll hung a free kick into the top corner after the ever running rian o meara was fouled on the edge of the box, de la salle pulled one back with 2 minutes to go with an excellent strike, but we held on for the win.

Man of the Match : Rian O Meara

🏆⚽ U12 Neasa O'Brien Tournament 2026 ⚽🏆

What a fantastic day of football, friendship and memories at the U12 Neasa O'Brien Tournament!

With teams from VILLA FOOTBALL CLUB, Ferrybank AFC Soccer Club, Dungarvan United AFC., Kilmacthomas AFC, Piltown AFC, Tramore Afc and Ballyduff A.F.C.

A huge congratulations to all of our teams who took part and made the day such a success.

🏆 Cup Final
Ferrybank AFC vs Villa FC
✅ Winners: Villa FC

🥉 Bowl Final
Park Rangers vs Ballyduff AFC
✅ Winners: Park Rangers

🥈 Plate Final
Tramore AFC vs Dungarvan United
✅ Winners: Dungarvan United

We were delighted to welcome special guests Maeve Williams, current Waterford FC captain, and Sarah Doyle, Shamrock Rovers goalkeeper and Republic of Ireland U17 international, who presented the awards on the day.

💙 The signed Waterford FC Women's jersey, kindly donated for the tournament, for the Neasa O'Brien award was won by Realtín Hayes (Ballyduff AFC).

⭐ Player of the Tournament: Lucy P**a (Dungarvan)
A huge congratulations on a fantastic achievement!

We would also like to sincerely thank all of our sponsors for their generous support. Your contributions helped make this tournament possible, and we are extremely grateful for your continued backing of grassroots football.

👏 Finally, thank you to all the players, coaches, volunteers, referees, parents and supporters and the O'Brien family who helped create such a special day in memory of Neasa O'Brien. Your support and participation made the tournament a tremendous success.

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Don't forget lotto tonight 8pm

Come along and see some great football on Sunday all proceeds going to the Solas Centre guests Waterford United F.c 's Maeve Williams and Doyle Shamrock Rovers and Ireland player

Best of luck everyone

Please assist with some baked goods for sunday

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Next up for our U12 Neasa O'Brien tournament is Kilmacthomas AFC