CRUSADERS v GLENAVON: A LOOK AHEAD Glenavon travels to North Belfast on Saturday to face Sports Direct Premiership title challengers, Crusaders. Once again Reserves’ manager Gary McAlister, coach Chris Chambers and Mark Haughey will take charge. “It will be a very tough match, particularly after the Crues lost heavily to Cliftonville earlier in the week,” [...]
GLENAVON v CARRICK RANGERS: A LOOK AHEAD After a tumultuous week Glenavon continues its Sports Direct Premiership programme against Carrick Rangers at Mourneview Park on Saturday. Reserves’ manager Gary McAlister, coach Chris Chambers and Mark Haughey will take charge of the team. They will be assisted by Paul McCrum. “It has been a difficult few [...]
DUNGANNON SWIFTS v GLENAVON: A LOOK AHEAD Glenavon travels to Stangmore Park on Saturday to face Dungannon Swifts. The East Tyrone club has drawn two and lost four of its opening six Sports Direct Premiership fixtures. Its two positive results were against Larne (4-4) and Coleraine (2-2). Five of its six goals in those two matches [...]
Glenavon begins its challenge for the 2023-24 Mid Ulster Cup with a home tie against Banbridge Town on Monday 4th September 2023 at 7.45 pm. It's pay at the gate £5/£3/free for kids. Banbridge, managed by Mark Kerr, plays in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League. It has made a disappointing start to the season. On [...]
Glenavon hosts Ballymena United at Mourneview Park on Saturday afternoon. United, now under the management of Jim Ervin, has lost all five of its opening Sports Direct Premiership fixtures – versus Coleraine (1-2), Crusaders (1-2), Larne (0-3), Linfield (0-1) and Glentoran (0-2). Nonetheless, Gary Hamilton is anticipating another testing 90 minutes. “Ballymena have had a [...]
Loughgall 2-2 Glenavon Sports Direct Premiership Lakeview Park Friday 25th August 2023 Match report by Calum Jones Glenavon picked up their first point of the season on Friday night, coming from two goals down to draw 2-2 with newly promoted Loughgall at Lakeview Park. Conor McCloskey was the hero for the Lurgan Blues, netting twice [...]
Glenavon faces Newry City at Mourneview Park on Saturday. Following the departure of long-serving boss Darren Mullen, the frontier club is now managed by Darren’s assistant, Gary Boyle. It has won one of its three Premiership fixtures to date, a 2-0 success against Carrick Rangers at Taylor’s Avenue. Gary Hamilton wants his team to build [...]
Glenavon Reserves 0 Cliftonville Olympic 7 Mourneview Park, Lurgan Monday 14th August 2023 Glenavon Reserves suffered a heavy 7-0 defeat against Cliftonville Olympic in the clubs’ second Irish Premiership Development League fixture. Shane Haughey (14 mins), Daire McMenamin (26 mins), David Alfred (56 mins), Ryan Corrigan (73, 86 mins) and Kevin McGuinness (80, 83 mins) [...]
Glenavon’s challenging start to the new season continues on Tuesday night when Linfield provide the opposition at the National Stadium, Windsor Park. Despite the team’s disappointing result against Glentoran and below-par defensive display at Solitude, Gary Hamilton is hopeful of an improvement. “There is no harder fixture than a trip to Windsor Park,” he commented. [...]
Glenavon travels to North Belfast on Saturday to face perennial Sports Direct Premiership top six finisher, Cliftonville. Although the surroundings at Solitude will be familiar, Gary Hamilton reckons that the fixture has something of the unknown about it. “This is Jim Magilton’s first game, as a manager, in our league,” he explained. “It is unclear [...]
