The club was formed in 1886, its first match being a defeat to a Limavady reserve XI,[1] and it was a founder member of the County Derry Football Association and joined the Irish Football Association in 1888.

[4][5] The club continued at a junior level until the 1958–59 season,[6] but by June 1960 it was defunct.

[8][9] The club's original ground was at Lone Moor Road.

[10] It played at Celtic Park (now the Derry GAA stadium) from 1894 to 1900, and at the Brandywell (now Derry City's stadium), on which it erected a pavilion.

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