First League Goalscorer:

 Did you know that the first ever league goalscorer for Ballyglass F.C. was none other than Seamus Burke in the clubs' first ever league match against Attymass, which ended with an 8-2 victory for Ballyglass!

Leading number of Appearances - 1975-2005/06

 

 

 

Position

Name

Appearances

 

 

 

1

Prendergast Ray

439

2

Burke Colm

351

3

Prendergast Declan

337

4

Reapy Joe

306

5

Burke Noel (Snr)

297

6

Vahey Martin

291

7

Diskin Mark

289

8

Noonan John

288

9

Burke Padraig

285

10

Staunton Kenny

266

11

Gilligan Sean

238

12

Heneghan Joe

209

13

Burke Seamus

195

14

Brett PJ

188

15

Kelly Michael

188

16

Connolly Paul

177

17

Reilly Kevin

176

18

Connolly Kevin (C)

164

19

Higgins Pat

163

20

Moran Jarlath

158

Secretary of the Year

Ballyglass F. C. has been honoured twice with Mayo League Secretary of the Year - Joe Sheridan won the award in 1988/89 and Breege Jennings won the title in 2005

Mayo League Footballer of the Year:

Three Ballyglass F.C. players have won the coveted Mayo League Footballer of the year. 
 
They are;

  • Ray Prendergast (1990/91)
  • Martin Vahey (1996)
  • Colm Burke (1997)

Golden Boot Award:

Cong native Kevin Connolly became the first player from the club to win the Mayo League Golden Boot Award in 1997. John Noonan repeated the feat in 2001

First International Match:

An International U-17 Ladies match was held in Ballyglass between Scotland and Northern Ireland on 17th April, 2004.

First International Cap:

Damien Coleman became the first Ballyglass player to receive an Irish International cap when he lined out for the Republic of Ireland U-14  v Northern Ireland at Armagh City F.C. on 24th May 2001.

Damien also scored for the Irish U-17 side against Russia during an international tournament in the Algarve, Portugal, which took place from February 28th to March 5th 2003

Unbeaten Season

The Premiership winning squad of 1996 became the first team to go through an entire league campaign undefeated since the division was enlarged to ten teams

Back to Back Titles

Ballyglass F.C. are part of an elite band of clubs within the county, just six in all, to successfully defend the Mayo League Premier Division Title since its inception in 1954 when they won back to back titles in 1996 & 1997

Managers

Jarlath Moran is the clubs' most successful manager at senior lever. At the helm he has guided the club to two successive Mayo League Premier Division Titles (1996 & 1997), a Mayo F.A. Cup (1996/97), Westaro Super Cup, Runners-up in two Connaught Cup Finals (1996 & 1999) and reached the semi-final of the FAI junior cup in 1998.
SEASON BY SEASON:

Year

Played

Won

Drew

Lost

For

Against

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

75/76

17

4

2

11

39

58

76/77

20

6

0

14

28

57

77/78

21

5

5

11

34

60

78/79

26

16

1

9

58

50

79/80

21

3

0

18

27

91

80/81

21

1

3

17

27

79

81/82

22

9

7

6

49

40

82/83

18

6

0

12

44

67

83/84

18

12

1

5

62

32

84/85

22

4

5

13

29

60

85/86

26

9

8

9

53

46

86/87

28

17

4

7

65

30

87/88

28

11

5

12

52

52

88/89

22

7

7

8

49

41

89/90

23

11

4

8

46

34

90/91

24

14

6

4

45

25

91/92

23

7

2

14

40

57

92/93

30

20

3

7

70

37

93/94

26

14

2

10

37

35

94/95

21

11

3

7

47

30

95/96

32

15

6

11

67

60

96/97

32

22

6

4

80

38

97/98

38

25

5

8

100

47

98/99

38

21

6

11

97

62

99/00

25

14

2

9

54

50

00/01

30

16

1

13

60

53

01/02

27

14

5

8

65

54

02/03

24

5

3

16

29

56

03/04

24

14

2

8

70

50

04/05

26

9

6

11

47

38

05/06

25

13

4

8

47

39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

778

355

114

309

1,617

1,528
Top 20 Goalscorers

Top 20 Goalscorers

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The red and white army has scored 1583 goals at senior level. Here are the Top 20 sharpshooters

 

Leading Goalscorers - 1975 to 2005/06

 

 

 

Position

Name

Goals

 

 

 

1

Prendergast Ray

137

2

Noonan John

120

3

Connolly Kevin (C)

96

4

Vahey Martin

92

5

Healy Tom

86

6

Reapy Joe

78

7

Heneghan Joe

55

8

Ryan Michael

52

9

Plunkett Alan

46

10

Connolly Paul

44

11

Quinn Tom

43

12

Collins Michael

35

13

Heneghan Stephen

34

14

Connelly Kevin (H)

32

15

Brett PJ

29

16

Ring Stephen

25

17

Kilkenny Kieran

22

18

McHugh Alan

21

19

Keady Justin

21

20

Niland Liam

21

 

Team of the Year 2006

Ballyglass F.C. would like to congratulate long serving player Tom Malone on being selected on the inaugural Mayo League Division 2 team of the year. Tom was selected in the right-back position due to his outstanding performances for the B team last season and will be presented with a specially commisioned scroll at the Mayo League Dinner Dance on November 18th 2006.

Tom has played for the club for many years and was an integral part of the Ballyglass success of the nineties, having also served on the committee during the major pitch and clubhouse developement in the same era.