In the early hours of Saturday 3rd May the Glentoran Academy 1999s and four guests from Ridgeway Rovers set sail towards the south west of Wales to participate in a friendly game with their Welsh counterparts at Swansea City Academy. The game was set up through a link between Glentoran, Ridgeway Rovers, Playball at the Stormont Pavilion and Swansea City AFC.
Glentoran Legends will be in action at the Oval this week.
The game, in aid of 'Marie Curie', will take place on Thursday (8th May) evening with a 7:30pm kick-off.
Willowfield Parish are the opposition. Come along and support both the Legends and a very worthy cause.
The U16 development team ended the season on a high winning 3-0 against St Patricks in the South Belfast cup final on Tuesday night.
The team stuck to their game plan and kept it tight instead of their usual attacking flowing football.
They denied St Pats many chances and caught them on the break with a ball played from the back through midfield to Jack Mallin who scored after 12 minutes.
Glentoran Under 14s travelled to Ballymoney on May Day to play in the Northern Ireland Boys FA Cup Final.
The Glens extra time victory over Linfield in the Semi Final at Seaview a month ago set up the Final clash with Limavady Youth, who had knocked out Ballymena United in their Semi Final.
Limavady, fresh from clinching promotion to the National League A Section where they will face the Glens in league action next season, started the game brightly with a gale force win at their backs.
All at Glentoran FC were saddened today to learn of the passing of Phil Scott, grandfather of Jordan Stewart. He was 71.
Phil had a long and distinguished Irish League career with Linfield, Distillery and Glenavon and had many friends and admirers in the local game.
Danny McKee has signed a 2-year deal with Glentoran FC.
McKee, who came to the Oval in January, has made 10 appearances for the first team so far and netted 3 goals.
Glentoran have agreed a deal with Fra McCaffrey. McCaffrey, who initially joined the Glens in February in a short term deal, has now put pen to paper on a 2-year contract.
Glentoran FC are delighted to announce that manager, Eddie Patterson has agreed a new 2-year deal.
Speaking to glentoran.com, Patterson said that he feels that this gives him the opportunity to continue the job he has started. “I’m working with a bunch of great lads and we are making progress. I want to build on that and with this group of young players, if we can add a couple of experienced members to the squad than we can kick on.”
The club is sad to hear of the untimely passing of former player Freddie Devine.
With the Glentoran first team matters concluded for the season the focus turned to the Seconds and their George Wilson Cup campaign. After progressing from a group that contained Ards, Warrenpoint Town and Crusaders Spike Hill's young guns were handed a home tie to reserve league runners-up Linfield.
