Lansdowne Football Club

Lansdowne Football Club, also sometimes referred to as Lansdowne Rugby Football Club, is a rugby union team based in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1872 by Henry Dunlop as the Irish Champion Athletic Club. Its senior team currently plays in Division 1A of the All-Ireland League. The club's playing colours are black, red and yellow hoops, with navy shorts.

Lansdowne have won the Leinster Senior Cup a record 28 times, winning it for the first in 1891. Lansdowne won the All Ireland League for the first time in March 2013 and also won the Fraser McMullen cup in the same season. Lansdowne completed the "All Ireland Double" again in May 2015 winning the All Ireland League and the Fraser McMullen again. In 2017/2018 captained by Ian Prendiville & coached by Mike Ruddock & Mark McHugh Lansdowne won the All Ireland League, The Bateman Cup, The Leinster Senior Cup and The Leinster Senior League Cup. Lansdowne is the first ever Leinster team to win all of these trophies in one season.

Together with Wanderers, Lansdowne have shared the use of Lansdowne Road since 1880, with each club having their own clubhouse at opposite ends of the ground. However, since 1974 the ground itself has been owned by the IRFU.

Honours

All-Ireland League: 3
2012-13, 2014–15, 2017–18
All-Ireland Cup: 7
1921-22, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 2017–18, 2019-20 (Joint winners), 2021-22
 Leinster Senior League 11
1973-74, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22
Leinster Senior Cup 29
1890-91, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1921–22, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1952–53, 1964–65, 1971–72, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2007–08, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018-19, 2023-24
Metropolitan Cup (17)
1927, 1948, 1959, 1965, 1968, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2017, 2019, 2023
Fraser McMullen Cup: 4
99-00, **2012-13, 2014–15, 2022-23

Notable players

Current Leinster / Connacht / Munster -contracted players

Ireland sevens international players
The following Lansdowne players have played for the Ireland national rugby sevens team:
Ian Fitzpatrick
Foster Horan
Adam Leavy
Fiachra Baynes
John O'Donnell
Cian Aherne
Tom Daly
Mark Roche
Peter Sullivan
Aidan McCullen
Eric Elwood
Brian Glennon
Vinnie Becker
Sean Galvin
Tom Roche

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||4 Lansdowne players represented Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics : Adam Leavy, Mark Roche, Foster Horan, Ian Fitzpatrick

Ireland Club international players

Ireland

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||116 Lansdowne players have represented Ireland at full international level. The latest Lansdowne player to be capped by Ireland is Harry Byrne. On two occasions in 1931, Lansdowne supplied the entire Irish three-quarter line (Jack Arigho, Eugene Davy, Morgan Crowe and Ned Lightfoot), one of only three clubs ever to have done so at international level world-wide.

As well as playing international rugby union for Ireland, at least five Lansdowne players have also represented Ireland and/or Great Britain at other sports. Noel Purcell was also an international water polo player and represented both Great Britain and Ireland at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics respectively. He helped Great Britain win the gold medal in 1920 Ham Lambert
played 21 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1931 and 1947..  Brothers Kevin O'Flanagan and Mick O'Flanagan also played soccer for Ireland. On 30 September 1946 they both played for Ireland in a 1–0 defeat against England at Dalymount Park Brian Carney played as a junior with Lansdowne before switching rugby codes. He represented both Ireland and Great Britain at rugby league before returning to the union code.

British & Irish Lions
As well as representing Ireland, several Lansdowne players have also represented the British & Irish Lions.

Other internationals
  Felipe Contepomi

Rugby league internationals

 Rody Corrigan: 1995
 Phelim Commerford: 1995
 Brian Carney: 1998
 Tom McCabe: 1996

Ireland league records

Trustees

Michael Kearney, Ciaran O'Reilly, Rory Williams, Oisin O'Buachalla, Michael Ryan

Past captains

Presidents

References

Notes

General

Peter Dooley inspires Lansdowne to AIL final win
Lansdowne FC: Refusing to rest on the laurels of a glorious past
Lansdowne crowned AIL champions in true style
Lansdowne land second title with thrilling UBL final win over Clontarf
Lansdowne win first Bateman Cup in 87 years to end Cork Con's bid for six-in-a-row

External links
 

 
Rugby clubs established in 1872
Rugby union teams in Ireland
Rugby union clubs in Dublin (city)
 All-Ireland League rugby union clubs
Leinster Senior League (rugby union) teams