Beech Park FC at Griffeen Valley Park
Beech Park FC brings boys and girls football to Griffeen Valley Park in Lucan, with a 1982 foundation, black colours and a current pathway from early teams to Under 18 squads.
Beech Park at Griffeen Valley Park
Beech Park FC is a Lucan football club based at Griffeen Valley Park, K78 PY83, with black recorded as the club colour and boys and girls football connected to the Dublin and District Schoolboys and Girls League. The club sits in the Dublin football landscape while serving families around Lucan, Esker and the wider west Dublin area.
The Griffeen Valley Park setting matters because it gives the club a clear community base rather than a hidden training address. Parents, players and away teams can plan around a known public park, established football pitches and a familiar Lucan landmark.
Founded in 1982
The club was founded in 1982, a year that still appears on the Beech Park badge through the split 19 and 82 either side of the football. That foundation date places Beech Park among the long running community football clubs that helped grow organised youth football around Lucan as the area expanded.
A 1982 origin also gives the modern page useful context. Beech Park is not only a current collection of age groups at Griffeen Valley Park. It is a club with more than four decades of local football behind the badge, the leaves, the green shield and the black playing colour recorded in the league pathway.
A community club with room to grow
Beech Park had around 200 players in 2019, showing a club with a meaningful local footprint even before the more recent 2026 to 2027 youth mix. That player base explains why facilities, storage and changing space matter so much at a public park ground.
Community clubs of this size depend on steady weekly routines. Younger players need a safe first football setting, older squads need enough pitch access to train and play, and volunteers need somewhere practical to organise equipment, meet teams and guide families on busy weekends.
Pitches 9 and 10
Beech Park is tied to football pitches 9 and 10 at Griffeen Valley Park in the 2024 to 2025 South Dublin parks allocation. That is useful visitor detail because Griffeen Valley Park is a large amenity, and the pitch number can be more helpful than the park name alone.
The pitch base also separates Beech Park from other clubs that use different sections of the same wider park. Families should confirm the team and pitch before travel, but the Beech Park reference point is the Griffeen Valley Park football area around K78 PY83.
Boys and girls pathway
The current Beech Park pathway includes boys teams at Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 15, Under 16 and Under 18 level. Girls football is present at Under 12 and Under 18, with two Under 18 girls groups connected to the club for the 2026 to 2027 season.
That spread gives Beech Park more than one simple entry point. Younger players can begin through the early age groups, while older teenagers can still see Beech Park activity ahead of them. For parents, that makes the club easier to understand as a pathway rather than a single season option.
Girls football in the pathway
Girls football is an important part of the Beech Park picture because the club has both Under 12 girls and Under 18 girls activity. The Under 12 group gives younger players a route into organised football, while the Under 18 groups show that the pathway reaches into older youth football.
The two Under 18 girls groups are especially useful for topical depth. They suggest that Beech Park is not relying on one isolated girls team, and that older girls football has enough activity to support more than one squad identity in the current season.
Older youth football
Beech Park has a strong older youth presence through boys Under 15, Under 16 and Under 18 teams, plus the Under 18 girls groups. Those ages are important because keeping teenagers in football requires reliable fixtures, suitable coaching, enough pitch access and a club setting that still feels worthwhile as school and work pressures grow.
Older youth football also helps younger players see what staying with a club can look like. A player entering at Under 8 or Under 10 can look along the pathway and see teams still active at the top end of youth football, which is valuable for family decisions and player motivation.
Early football route
At the younger end, the boys Under 8, Under 10 and Under 12 groups give Beech Park a visible early football route. These ages are where players learn the basics of training habits, match day behaviour, listening to coaches, supporting team mates and enjoying the game in a structured setting.
The girls Under 12 group also sits inside this early development space. It gives younger girls a named Beech Park team identity and a local Lucan football option before the older youth stages begin.
Facilities and resilience
In 2019 Beech Park was dealing with a serious setback when a changing container at Griffeen Valley Park was damaged by fire. The club also had an equipment container on site, and the incident showed how important practical facilities are for a community football club using a public park base.
Changing space, storage and safe access are not decorative extras for a club with around 200 players. They shape how teams prepare, how volunteers manage equipment, how younger players are looked after, and how confidently parents can use a park based venue during the season.
A Griffeen Valley Park setting
Griffeen Valley Park gives Beech Park a broad open setting with football pitches, paths, green space and a strong Lucan identity. The park is used by families, walkers and sports groups, so the football club sits inside a wider community amenity rather than behind a closed gate.
That setting is useful for new families. It makes the club easier to find, gives players a familiar local landmark, and helps visiting teams understand that match days take place in a shared public park environment where time, parking and pitch location all matter.
Colours badge and identity
Black is the recorded club colour, while the badge uses a green shield, white centre, gold edging, a football and two beech leaves. The Beech Park FC name sits across the top of the crest, and the 1982 date is presented as 19 and 82 beside the ball.
The leaves make the badge instantly connected to the Beech Park name. The football and foundation year then complete the identity, giving the club a simple set of visual cues for parents, players, coaches and visiting teams to recognise online and around the venue.
Contact and season details
Families looking for Beech Park information can use beechparkfc.ie and the football contact email conorandcaroline@yahoo.com. The club is connected to the 2026 to 2027 season, with Dublin, Leinster and DDSL context across its current youth activity.
The practical identity is straightforward: Beech Park FC, Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan, K78 PY83. From there, parents can confirm the correct age group, pitch and contact route before training or match day travel.
Visiting Griffeen Valley Park
Visiting teams should use Griffeen Valley Park, K78 PY83 as the arrival point and allow enough time to find the correct football pitch inside the park. For Beech Park, pitches 9 and 10 are the key pitch references from the South Dublin allocation.
Because the park is shared, families should expect normal public park movement around paths, green space and nearby sports use. The map below is included for the main Beech Park venue reference in Lucan.
What parents can expect
Parents looking at Beech Park are looking at a long established Lucan club with boys and girls football, a park based venue, current older youth activity and a foundation year that reaches back to 1982. The club has enough evidence of depth to be read as a continuing pathway rather than a brief seasonal entry.
The most useful way to understand Beech Park is through three connected details: a named Griffeen Valley Park base, a current spread from younger players to Under 18 football, and a club identity built around the Beech Park badge, leaves, football and 1982 foundation year.
