{"product_id":"newry-city-2025-2026-home-shirt","title":"Newry City AFC 2025\/2026 Home Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEWRY CITY AFC - HOME SHIRT 2025\/2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2025\/2026 campaign, in which this striking home 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvan McEnteggart's solitary goal on the final day will always be remembered as the one that dragged Newry back up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollow the club on X: @NewryCityAFC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Surprise Shirts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55564911444344,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/5564\/9221\/files\/NewryCityAFC2025_2026HomeShirt.jpg?v=1779184908","url":"https:\/\/surpriseshirts.co.uk\/products\/newry-city-2025-2026-home-shirt","provider":"Surprise Shirts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}