Derry City F.C.

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 While security force objections to the use of the Brandywell were withdrawn the following year, the Irish League insisted that the arrangement, an unsustainable one, continue and the club withdrew from the league.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 junior football, Derry City joined the League of Ireland's new First Division for 1985–86. They won the First Division title and achieved promotion to the Premier Division in 1987, remaining there until an administrative relegation in 2009. The club won a domestic treble in 1988–89.

After spending the majority of its time in the League of Ireland in the Premier Division, the club was expelled in November 2009 when it was discovered there were unofficial secondary contracts with players. It was reinstated a few weeks later but, as punishment, was demoted to the First Division. The club eventually won its way back to the Premier Division.