Derry City F.C.

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Derry City Football Club are a professional football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland. They play in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of league football in the Republic of Ireland, and are its only member from Northern Ireland. The club's home ground is the Brandywell. Derry City wear red and white striped shirts from which their nickname, the Candystripes, derives. The club are also known as the Red and White Army, Derry or City. The club, founded in 1928, initially played in the Irish League, the domestic league in Northern Ireland, and won a title in 1964–65. In 1971, security concerns related to the Troubles meant matches could not be played at the Brandywell and the team had to play home fixtures 30 miles (48 km) away in Coleraine. While security force objections to the use of the Brandywell were withdrawn the following year, the Irish League insisted that the arrangement, an unsustainable one, continue and the club withdrew from the league. After 13 years in...

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