Home Farm is perhaps best known for its youth system which has produced dozens of players who have gone on to play for clubs throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom.

In 1928 the latter two, led by Don Seery and Brendan Menton Snr respectively merged to form Home Farm Football Club.

By 1937 Carey, together with Paddy Farrell and Kevin O'Flanagan, was one of at least three former Home Farm players who had become Irish internationals, having played for the FAI XI.

[5] Meanwhile, Home Farm Under 14s under coach Joe Fitzpatrick earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for their match winning sequence of 79 games between 1968 and 1971.

[6] In 1972 Home Farm and their trustees, Brendan Menton Sr. and Don Seery, finally got a chance to field a senior team in the League of Ireland when they merged with Drumcondra.

With a team managed by Dave Bacuzzi and including Noel King, James Higgins, Martin Murray and Dermot Keely, they beat Dundalk, Cork Celtic and St Patrick's Athletic in earlier rounds before defeating Shelbourne 1–0 in the final at Dalymount Park.

However, after a poor performance against Derry City, Archibald was allegedly told to "eff off home" by then manager Dermot Keely.

Despite the decline of Home Farm's senior team, the U14s continued strongly, playing regularly in the Dublin and District Schoolboy League.

O'Dea, Diarmuid O'Carroll, Gary Walsh and Gareth Christie were already being tracked by Celtic youth development officer, Tommy Burns, and all four were subsequently offered contracts.

In addition Ipswich Town became the latest English club to recognise Home Farm's potential and they signed up goalkeeper Shane Supple, defender Michael Synnott and midfielder Owen Garvan.

At the time United featured several graduates of the Home Farm academy in their squad, most notably Gary Kelly, Ian Harte, Stephen McPhail and Alan Maybury.

[13][14] Another player who was on the books of both clubs as a junior goalkeeper was Nicky Byrne, later to find success as a singer with Westlife.

In February 2005 Home Farm unveiled a €1 million sponsorship deal with several groups, most notably Renault Ireland.

Renault Ireland chairman Bill Cullen, the driving force behind the deal, and O’Reilly are former Home Farm players.

As part of the arrangement Home Farm jerseys featured the Renault logo alongside the club's distinctive crest.