 moyola park association football club is an intermediate, northern irish football club playing in nifl championship 2. the club, founded in 1880, hails from castledawson, near magherafelt, county londonderry, and plays its home matches at the mill meadow, which has an artificial "3g" surface.http://www.sportni.net/moyolaparkassociationfootballclub.htm club colours are royal blue and yellow. they are currently managed by mervyn pattison. the club won the inaugural irish cup in 1881. ==history== moyola park was formed during season 1879â80 under the patronage of lord spencer chichester, the landlord of the moyola park estate. the first recorded game was a friendly at home against cliftonville, on 14 february 1880, in which the visitors recorded a 3-0 victory. lord spencer chichester was the inaugural president of the irish football association, which was formed in november 1880. on 9 april 1881, moyola park became the first winners of the irish cup, defeating cliftonville 1â0 in the final.moyola park association football club - a potted history after those prestigious early days the club became less prominent and did not become a senior club, playing as a junior club outside the irish league. in the early years of the twentieth century, the club played in a local league in south londonderry and it continued to do so until the second world war, with the exception of the 1929â30 season during which the club participated in the belfast-based minor league. after the war, moyola park was a founding member of the ballymena and district junior league in 1948â49, where it played until season 1977â78 (with the exception of 1950â51, when it participated in the irish football alliance). during this time, the club won the league championship outright on five occasions: 1948â49, 1949â50, 1973â74, 1976â77, 1977â78, and shared the championship in 1959â60 with ballymoney united. the club also won the irish junior cup in 1972â73 and 1973â74. in 1978, the club was elevated to intermediate status upon joining the newly established northern ireland intermediate league. in 1991, moyola park
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