Galway United
Eamonn Deacy Park sits beside the Corrib on the north side of the city, a short walk from Terryland Forest Park, and it is where the Tribesmen play. The club started in the Claddagh as Galway Rovers, was winning local junior cups by 1933, joined the League of Ireland in 1977 and took the name Galway United four years later. It has lifted the League Cup and the FAI Cup, gone bust, come back under fan ownership and been promoted to the Premier Division in 2023.
Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.
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Eamonn Deacy Park, Pearse Stadium, Terryland Forest Park on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.
Rovers to United
The club's own site gives 1937 as the founding date, though a Galway Advertiser report shows Rovers winning the Celtic Shield in 1933, and a Rovers team is mentioned at a meeting on Dominick Street as far back as September 1898. Rovers won the Connacht Junior Cup in 1958 and made the League of Ireland in 1977 to 1978. They reached the League Cup final in 1980 to 1981, losing to Dundalk on penalties, and became Galway United the next season. In 1985 United lost their first FAI Cup final 1-0 to Shamrock Rovers, were founder members of the Premier Division in 1985 to 1986, finished second in its first season and beat Dundalk 2-0 for the League Cup, their first major trophy.
The 1991 cup and the long decline
At Lansdowne Road in 1991 captain Johnny Glynn scored with five minutes left to beat Shamrock Rovers 1-0 and win the FAI Cup, and the club went into Europe for a third time. Relegation followed in 1992, promotion as First Division champions in 1993, and a third-place finish in 1994. The 2000s were lean: ten managers, one amateur trophy, the Connacht Senior Cup of 2008, and a spell in the First Division from 2002 to 2007. Nick Leeson, the trader who broke Barings, joined as commercial manager in 2005 and was chief executive by 2007. By 2010 the debts were put at between 35,000 and 70,000 euro; the supporters' trust took over the running of the club in 2011, the team lost 32 of 36 games that season, and in December 2011 United withdrew from the league.
Back from the dead
The club returned in 2014, playing one season as Galway FC before taking its name back, and has been owned by the Galway United Friends Co-operative since. In March 2022 the members voted, 82 per cent in favour, to give Brian and Luke Comer of the Comer Property Group an option on an 85 per cent stake, with an initial half a million euro promised. Promotion from the First Division came in 2023. Home is Eamonn Deacy Park, the old Terryland Park; during its 1993 rebuild United played at the Sportsground and Crowley Park, and European home games have been played at the Sportsground and at the grounds of Carraroe and Ballinderreen GAA. During the 2026 season drainage work at Eamonn Deacy Park sent the team across town to Pearse Stadium, the home of Galway GAA. Both grounds are pinned on the model.
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Written from Wikipedia, "Galway United F.C." (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-09-19, and from the OpenStreetMap places on the model. Nothing has been added from memory; follow the source for its footnotes.