Phoenix Athletic FC

🔥⚽ PHOENIX GIRLS 2016s – THURSDAY TRAINING MOVES TO BALLYMAC! ⚽🔥

Phoenix Girls 2016s are delighted to announce that our Thursday training sessions are moving to Ballymagroarty 3G, beside the park and behind the Community Centre.

📍 Tuesday: Brooke Park
🕕 6:00–7:00pm

📍 Thursday: Ballymagroarty 3G
🕔 5:00–6:00pm

The move gives us access to two-thirds of the big 3G pitch, providing the girls with much more space and helping us deliver even better training sessions.

🙋‍♀️ NEW PLAYERS WELCOME!

We would love to welcome girls born in 2016 from Ballymagroarty and the surrounding areas who would like to join the team or come along and try football.

No previous experience is needed—just come along, have fun, make new friends and enjoy playing football in a friendly, development-focused environment.

📩 If your daughter is interested in joining, please PM the page and we’ll send you all the details.

PHOENIX 2016s DEVELOPMENT TOURNAMENT ⚽⚽

We had the pleasure of hosting 2016 teams on Sunday past at St Joe's in a very relaxed and fun development event, the weather was superb and all the kids left with loads of football played and smiles all round.

A massive 10 teams took part, with some fantastic football played throughout the day. But more importantly, there were plenty of smiles, laughs and new friendships made along the way. ❤️🖤
A huge thank you and well done to all the teams who joined us:
⚽ Trojans
⚽ Phoenix
⚽ Artigarvan
⚽ Sion Swifts
⚽ Carndonagh
⚽ Don Boscos
⚽ TriStar
⚽ Redcastle
⚽ Eglinton
⚽ Cockhill

The tournament was designed to give every team the opportunity to play in a final, making sure everyone had something to play for right until the end.
🏆 Final Placings
🥇 1st – Carndonagh
🥈 2nd – Cockhill
🥉 3rd – Phoenix
🏅 4th – TriStar
🏅 5th – Artigarvan
👏 Congratulations to Carndonagh, our tournament winners, after a fantastic day of football!

❤️🖤 A special mention for our Phoenix 2016 team. The boys were absolutely brilliant all day, conceding just ONE goal throughout the entire tournament! Even better than that was the way they played with smiles on their faces from start to finish.
There were great performances right across the team, plenty of teamwork and, most importantly, they enjoyed every minute of the day. The coaches couldn't have been prouder of them. 👏⚽

A massive THANK YOU to every player, coach, parent and supporter who helped make the tournament such an enjoyable day.
Football, fun, friendships and plenty of smiles — exactly what a development tournament should be about! ❤️🖤⚽
Well done everyone and congratulations to all our teams! 🏆👏

D&D Men's SMARTPAY Jimbo Crossan Cup 🏆

Phoenix Athletic 5 Tristar 3

Congratulations to our men's team who rounded off a great summer of Cup competitions with a very good win over Tristar at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium yesterday. It was a very entertaining game played in front of a good crowd with some great goals. Tristar went ahead on 3 occasions however Phoenix kept playing their game and created plenty of chances and finished the game very strongly. Goals from Oran Deeney (2) Mark Healey, Oran Sweeney and Kealan Kelly sealed the win for Chris McGarrigle's men and it was a fitting reward for the team's efforts over the past number of seasons.
Jimbo Crossan was a giant figure in football here for decades and it was great to have Jimbo's family in attendance with his brother the legendary Jobby presenting the cup to captain Declan Harley after the final whistle.
Huge congratulations to a young Tristar side on a great performance and a special thank you to D&D men's committee Darren Smyth and Liam Smyth for keeping the summer cups going, it's greatly appreciated.

It's with a heavy heart that we post this asking all our members to keep the family of Yasmin Khera in our thoughts and prayers. We were all heartbroken and in shock when we heard the tragic news yesterday. Yasmin was such a beautiful young lady who attended many of our games to cheer on her younger brothers, always so friendly to everyone and so supportive of her brothers, Cruz who plays for our 2009s and Zayn who plays for our 2012s. Both lads are so talented and very popular amongst their team mates and we want to let you know that we are all here to support you through this most difficult of times.
Our sincere condolences to Yasmin's parents Marty and Lisa, we can not imagine the pain yous must be feeling now, sister Layla, brother's Cruz and Zayn and to Yasmin's wider family circle and many friends.
Yasmin's funeral will be at 12pm on Monday at Steelstown Chapel, may Yasmin rest in peace ❤️🙏

As a mark of respect a minutes silence will be observed in our men's final today

SMARTPAY D&D MEN'S JIMBO CROSSAN CUP

Saturday 2pm ko McBride Brandywell Stadium

Phoenix Athletic v Tristar

Admission £3 and all proceeds to Charity

All support welcome

SMARTPAY D&D MEN'S TERRY KELLY CUP FINAL

TONIGHT 7.45PM KO Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium

PHOENIX ATHLETIC v DON BOSCOS

It has been a brilliant summer of football for our men's team and tonight the boys have a chance to claim a major trophy when they compete in the Terry Kelly Cup final and it's a fitting venue as the game will be played on the fantastic new pitch at the brandywell. A real fitting venue as Terry was Derry City's first captain when the club returned to senior football in 1985. To add to the story Terry was also a founding figure of our opponents Don Boscos and is much loved by his club. No doubt it will be a cracking game and we will have members of our 2016 group walking out with our players. We encourage as many people to come along and support our boys. Good luck lads 🔴🟤🔴⚫

⚽🔥 PHOENIX COACHES CHARITY MATCH – IN AID OF MENCAP DERRY 🔥⚽

This Thursday 20th August, the Phoenix coaches are swapping the clipboard for the boots and taking to the pitch for a very special cause. ❤️

📍 Brooke Park
⏰ Kick-off: 7:00pm
💷 £10 per player
❤️ All donations welcome

🔗 DONATE HERE:
https://ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/conor-toye

We’re delighted to be supporting Mencap Derry and the fantastic work they do for people with a learning disability and their families.

Their work is all about helping people live more independently, build confidence and skills, access opportunities and be fully included in their community. They also provide vital support to families and help give people the chance to live the life they choose. ❤️

So get yourselves down to Brooke Park and support a brilliant cause! 🙌

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents, players, families and friends are all welcome.

Bring the kids along and let them see their coaches actually having to do some running for a change… 😂⚽

They might see a few silky skills…
They’ll probably see a few pulled hamstrings…
And there’s a very good chance they’ll see their coach getting absolutely kicked! 🤣🔥

Whether you’re playing, coming along to watch, donating online or simply sharing this post, every bit of support counts.

🖤❤️💛 ONE CLUB. ONE COMMUNITY. ONE CAUSE.

Please share this far and wide and help us get a brilliant crowd down to Brooke Park while raising as much as we can for Mencap Derry. 🙌❤️

A day to remember at the Brandywell! ❤️⚽

Our Phoenix 2017 girls had the honour of walking out as mascots with the Derry City Women’s team before taking on ball-girl duties during the match.

The girls loved every minute of this amazing experience. A massive thank you to Derry City Women for the warm welcome and for inspiring the next generation! 🔥👏