Arklow Town Football Club are a football club from

Arklow Arklow (; ; , ) is a town in County Wicklow on the southeast coast of Ireland. The town is overlooked by Ballymoyle Hill. It was founded by the Vikings in the ninth century. Arklow was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the 1798 r ...

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered ...

in Ireland. The club's two senior teams are members of the Leinster Senior League and the

Wicklow & District Football League The Wicklow & District Football League is an association football league featuring amateur and junior clubs from County Wicklow. The WDFL is a winter league running from September to May. Its top division, the Andy McEvoy Premier 1, is a seventh l ...

History

The club was founded in 1948. In

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the club played in the

FAI Cup The Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup (FAI Cup), known as the Extra.ie FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association football competition contested annually by teams from the Republic of Ireland (as well as Derry ...

, beating

University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland ...

's Leinster Senior League team in the second round, before losing to the UCD first team in the third round.Arklow take on UCD in cup tie
Wicklow People, 20 May 2009

Notable players

This is a list of notable players who have played with Arklow Town and played either in a professional league or at senior international level; *

Aaron Barry Aaron Barry (born 24 November 1992) is an Irish footballer who last played as a defender for Bray Wanderers. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he came through the ranks at Sheffield United's academy. Spending two years on the fringes of United's first ...

Eric Molloy Eric Molloy (born 12 December 1992) is an Irish footballer. Career Molloy was born in Carlow, Ireland. He started his senior career with Arklow Town. After that, he played for Wexford, Southern United, and Team Wellington. In 2019, he sig ...

Liam Scales Liam Scales (born 8 August 1998) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen, on loan from Celtic. Personal life Scales is from Barndarrig, County Wicklow. He studied Iri ...

References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.arklowtownfc.com/ Association football clubs in County Wicklow Leinster Senior League (association football) clubs 1948 establishments in Ireland