Kalum King is a
Gaelic football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...
player from
County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 552,261. It borders County Antrim to the ...
. He played for the
Down senior inter-county football team and with his local club, Bryansford.
King first played for Down in 2004, when he played a role in Down's promotion run in the national league that year. He restarted his county career in 2010, and started every game in the 2010 league season. In the 2010 championship, the team progressed to the
All-Ireland Final against Cork. He was appointed Down's vice-captain in 2012, and was captain for various games.
He reportedly left the Down squad ahead of the
2014 Ulster Championship.
At club level, King was part of the Bryansford championship-winning side in 2003, and also part of the side that won the league title in 2014 after a match against
Mayobridge
Mayobridge () is a village within County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the small river Clanrye, which divides the townlands of Mayo and Bavan, east of Newry. It had a population of 1,069 as at 2011. Administratively, it is within the Newry a ...
in Kilcoo.
Outside of Gaelic games, King was also involved in boxing.
Honours
;Down
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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) () is the premier inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County (Gaelic games), County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions.
Organised by the ...
(1): 2010 (runner-up)
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National Football League Division 2 (2): 2004, 2010 (Promoted)
;Bryansford
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Down Senior Football Championship
The Down Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Down GAA clubs. The Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1903.
Kilcoo are the title holders (2024) de ...
(1): 2003
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Down Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2003
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Down League Winner (1): 2014
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Down inter-county Gaelic footballers