Newry City AFC 2025/2026 Third Shirt

NEWRY CITY AFC - THIRD SHIRT 2025/2026

Newry City AFC are a semi-professional club based in Newry, County Down. Reborn in 2013 as a phoenix successor to the original Newry City FC - a lineage stretching back to 1918 before the side folded in 2012 - they are known as The City, or the Blue and White Army to their supporters. Home is the Newry Showgrounds, beside the Clanrye River that splits the town between counties Armagh and Down.

The 2025/2026 campaign, in which this striking third shirt was worn in cup fixtures, was the season Newry stopped the rot. Back-to-back relegations had dropped the club into the third-tier Premier Intermediate League, and Stuart King was brought in from Carrick Rangers with one brief: get them back up. King's side finished 3rd on 47 points - a single point behind runners-up Strabane Athletic, with Moyola Park crowned champions - and sealed promotion on the final night, winning 1-0 at Dollingstown to return to the Playr-Fit Championship.

What this season is best remembered for, though, are the cup-runs that brought a buzz back to the Showgrounds. In the BetMcLean League Cup, Newry dispatched Premiership Portadown 1-0 and Glenavon by the same scoreline before bowing out 3-2 at home to Northern Irish giants, Linfield. The Irish Cup ended less gloriously with a 2-1 fourth-round defeat to Northern Amateur League side Drumaness Mills.

Evan McEnteggart's solitary goal on the final day will always be remembered as the one that dragged Newry back up.

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