Drogheda Marsh Crescent FC

Club story

Youth football in Upper Mell

Drogheda Marsh Crescent FC is a community club in Drogheda, County Louth. The club’s official website publishes the current badge, committee contacts, league route and home-pitch information. It also names an academy coordinator, showing that the connected competitive records are only part of the football organised by the club.

A firm foundation year is not published on the official site or the current regional league profile. Public match reporting reaches back at least to 2013: a Drogheda Independent report from that year covered a Marsh Crescent league win at Navan Town. That establishes active competition at the time, not the date on which the club began. No founding year is added to this page without dependable evidence.

The club has a clear place in the current North East structure. The NERL club record carries its boys’ and girls’ match programme, contacts, badge and kit. The SFAI club map also lists Drogheda Marsh Crescent and its club email, connecting the local programme to the national schoolboys’ and schoolgirls’ association.

Irish Youth Football currently connects 11 records for 2026–27. Six are boys-coded: three U12 and three U13. Five are girls-coded: three U12 and two U15. Repeated club-and-age labels may be separate competition imports rather than eleven individually named squads. All 11 connected records appear in the automatic team panel.

This is incomplete team coverage. The page has no academy or coaching-league team card, despite the academy role advertised by the club. There are no linked U14 or U16 records, even though those ages appear in the club’s recent honours history. U18, youth and adult football are also absent. The relationships show what is held in IYF for this season; they are not a full club census.

The IYF fixture view currently has no upcoming match. Its results view returns 50 saved results and does not report another batch. Those results span boys’ U12 and U13 and girls’ U12 and U15 competition. The league results service is the external reference for recent scores, while the club website should be checked for local notices and changes.

Recent honours are well documented. The U14 team won the 2023 North East Counties League Division 1 title after a 5–1 home victory over Drogheda Boys. In the same season, the U16 side finished as Division 1 champions, closing its campaign with a 4–0 win at Duleek.

The following year brought another named success. Marsh Crescent’s U16s won the 2024 SFAI North Leinster final by beating Maynooth 2–1 after extra time in Navan. An earlier U12 Shield final report records the club lifting that trophy in 2021. These examples are verified honours, not a claim to list every trophy the club has won.

The NERL kit entry describes maroon and sky-blue shirts, sky-blue shorts and maroon socks. The same league profile shows the DMC badge used in current match records. The club website displays its own version of the crest. No dependable away-kit description was found, so visiting teams should confirm colour arrangements with Marsh Crescent before the fixture.

The club’s current home directions point to Mell Football Pitch in Upper Mell, alongside the River Boyne. The embedded official map identifies the same place. This differs from the NERL profile, which has displayed “Moneymore FC Grounds”, and some stored home results are linked to Drogheda Grammar School. The IYF club relationship follows the club’s first-party Upper Mell directions while leaving match-specific venue links intact.

Visitor information is simple but useful: the club says roadside parking is available in Upper Mell. It does not promise dressing rooms, toilets, refreshments or step-free access for every match. Contact the team before travel to confirm the ground, entrance, assigned pitch, surface, parking arrangements and facilities, especially when a league notice names another venue.