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| Full name | Lansdowne Football Club | |
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| Union |  IRFU | |
| Branch | Leinster | |
| Founded | 1872; 153 years ago (1872) | |
| Region | County Dublin | |
| Ground(s) | Aviva Stadium (Back Pitch) Lansdowne Road Ballsbridge Dublin 4 (Capacity: 1,000) | |
| President | Conor Shaw | |
| Coach(es) | Declan Fassbender | |
| Captain(s) | Cillian Redmond | |
| Top scorer | Matt Healy | |
| League(s) | All-Ireland League Div. 1A | |
| 2024–25 | 4th.[1] | |
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Lansdowne Football Club, is arugby union team based inDublin,Ireland. Called Football Club instead of Rugby Football Club due to being founded before the formation of the IRFU. It was founded in1872 byHenry Dunlop as theIrish Champion Athletic Club. Its senior team currently plays inDivision 1A of theAll-Ireland League. The club's playing colours are black, red and yellow hoops, with navy shorts.
Lansdowne have won theLeinster Senior Cup a record 29 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 withWanderers, Lansdowne have shared the use ofLansdowne 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.[2]
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The following Lansdowne players have played for theIreland national rugby sevens team:
4 Lansdowne players represented Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics : Adam Leavy, Mark Roche, Foster Horan, Ian Fitzpatrick
1 Lansdowne player represented Ireland at the Paris 2024 OLympics : Mark Roche
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118 Lansdowne players have representedIreland at full international level. The latest Lansdowne player to be capped by Ireland is Harry Byrne. On two occasions in1931, 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.[4]
In 2023 Lansdowne’s Paul Clinch was awarded his first Irish cap for proudly representing Ireland on the tour of North America in 1989 against Canada and the USA making him the oldest Lansdowne member in the 150 year history of the club to receive his first cap. Clinch was one of a dozen players who played for Ireland against non 'original rugby nations' who were awarded their caps retrospectively. As well as playing international rugby union forIreland, at least five Lansdowne players have also represented Ireland and/or Great Britain at other sports.Noel Purcell was also an internationalwater polo player and represented bothGreat Britain andIreland at the1920 and1924 Summer Olympics respectively. He helped Great Britain win the gold medal in 1920[5]Ham Lambertplayed 21 times for theIreland cricket team between 1931 and 1947.. BrothersKevin O'Flanagan andMick O'Flanagan also playedsoccer forIreland. On 30 September 1946 they both played for Ireland in a 1–0 defeat againstEngland atDalymount Park[6]Brian Carney played as a junior with Lansdowne before switching rugby codes. He represented bothIreland andGreat Britain atrugby league before returning to the union code.
As well as representingIreland, several Lansdowne players have also represented theBritish & Irish Lions.[7]
Rugby league internationals
AIL top try scorers
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Lansdowne: 76Trinity: 26 (2017-2018) Largest win in an AIL match
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Michael Kearney, Ciaran O'Reilly, Rory Williams, Oisin O'Buachalla, Michael Ryan
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