North Leitrim football at Bee Park
Manorhamilton Rangers links academy, boys’, girls’ and adult football from Bee Park in the town.
Manorhamilton Rangers AFC
Manorhamilton Rangers is the IYF identity for Manorhamilton Rangers AFC, the North Leitrim club based at Bee Park in Manorhamilton. The club is also known locally as Manor Rangers, a name that appears through its youth and league football, while the official club channels use Manorhamilton Rangers AFC.
The club sits in the Sligo Leitrim football setting and serves a large rural catchment around Manorhamilton. Its blue and black striped identity comes from the club’s own history, with yellow and blue also used by teams in more recent seasons.
From first season success to Premier titles
The club was formed in 1980 by local football people who wanted association football to have a proper home in the Manorhamilton area. Manorhamilton Rangers entered the Sligo Leitrim League in Division 4 and made a fast climb, winning Division 4 in its first season, Division 3 in 1981 and Division 2 in 1982.
Those early seasons set the tone for a club that has carried both senior ambition and underage coaching. Rangers later became Premier Division champions in 1988-89, 2001-02 and 2006-07, placing the club among the best known Leitrim names in the Sligo Leitrim game.
Bee Park
Bee Park is the football home tied to Manorhamilton Rangers. The ground sits at New Line in Manorhamilton beside Bee Park Community Centre, a community base used by many local groups and sporting users across the town.
The club’s own updates show steady care for the playing surface and match setting, including pitch maintenance, ball stops, posts and netting. For visiting families, the useful pin is Bee Park Community Centre, New Line, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, F91 HCD9.
Bee Park, New Line: Manorhamilton Rangers home ground and football base.
Academy, boys and girls
Manorhamilton Rangers has long framed itself as a club for boys and girls from the youngest age groups through teenage football. The club history names underage football from U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 under the Sligo Leitrim youth and schoolboys and schoolgirls structures.
The current IYF team links show boys’ and girls’ squads across the underage pathway, with team naming that includes both Manor Rangers and Manorhamilton Rangers AFC. The live Teams section below should be used for the latest age groups, as team titles change by season.
Girls’ football and youth milestones
Girls’ football is part of the Manorhamilton Rangers pathway rather than a side note. The club has fielded girls’ teams into the teenage grades, and its own updates have covered U18 girls’ league football along with boys’ teams across the same Sligo Leitrim setting.
Youth football has also given the club some of its proudest dates. The 1991-92 U17 side retained its league title and won the club’s first provincial title, while the 2007-08 U16 group followed an international tournament final in Blackpool by taking the Sligo Leitrim U16 League title.
Senior football
The senior men’s side gives the club a clear adult pathway at Bee Park. Rangers have played deep into national and provincial junior football, including FAI Junior Cup and Connacht Junior Cup quarter final runs in 2007-08, a season that still stands out in the club story.
More recently, Manorhamilton Rangers secured promotion to the Super League in 2025 and won the Glasshouse Cup in the same year. Those results sit alongside a longer Premier Division history, so younger players can see a real senior route in their own town.
Selected honours
These are named wins and titles that are tied to the club’s own history and official updates. Quarter final runs and one off match wins are kept in the story, not treated as honours.
Joining, contact and welfare
The club website carries current news, registration notices and contact routes, so parents and players should use the official channels before travelling or signing up. Recent club posts show membership windows, summer football and academy activity, but older dates should be treated as past notices rather than this season’s timetable.
The contact page names the club officers and child liaison contacts. For safeguarding information, families can use the club contact route and the FAI safeguarding pages, then confirm the right team contact for the player’s age group.