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Dublin City
Full name	Dublin City Football Club
Nickname(s)	Dubs and Vikings
Founded	2001
Ground	Dalymount Park, Dublin (tenants) (Capacity 8,200)
Chairman	Ronan Seery
Manager	Dermot Keely
League	N/A
2005	2nd in First Division (Promoted)
Home colours 　 Away colours

Dublin City F.C. was an Irish football club playing in the Football League of Ireland. Until 2001 it was known as Home Farm Fingal and before that as Home Farm Everton (as English club Everton had a stake in the club) and before that as Home Farm F.C.

Home Farm is one of the biggest junior football clubs in Ireland and their senior team ,from 1970 up to the late 1990s, played in the League of Ireland. However, the link between Home Farm and the senior team was severed in the late 1990s. The senior side was briefly known as Home Farm Fingal in an effort to identify it with the north Dublin area. In 1999 Home Farm Fingal CEO Ronan Seery took over the club and renamed it "Dublin City". The club was based in Dublin and in 2006, its final year of operation, played its home matches at Dalymount Park. The last manager was Dermot Keely.

The club got promoted twice to the premier division, winning the First Divisio in 2003 and on the second occason, in 2005, with a 3-2 aggregate play-off victory over Shamrock Rovers. However they failed to cultivate a significant fan-base. Some very low attendances were reported at their games ^[1]. In addition to its small following, the club had no permanent home ground, playing at various times in Tolka Park, Dalymount Park, Morton Stadium, Richmond Park and Whitehall Stadium. As a result of these factors, the club experienced financial problems and as of July 19, 2006, Dublin City FC ceased trading and resigned from the Eircom League. The results of all their games to that point in the season were expunged from the record.

Ronan Seery issued a statement saying, "Due to ongoing difficulties, our continued existence within the eircom League simply became untenable and while extremely difficult to make, it is the most prudent and honourable decision and course of action to take" ^[2]. However, the club was heavily criticised in some quarters, for example by Damien Richardson and Roddy Collins for failing to complete their league fixtures ^[3].

• League of Ireland 1st Division Winners: 1
  • 2003

Gary O'Neill Killian Brennan Efan Ekoku Carlton Palmer Tony Sheridan Aidan Lynch ^ Galway United director Nial O'Reilly claimed to have seen "52 spectators at the match" when his club played away to Dublin City [1] ^ [2] ^ [3]. Roddy Collins, who managed Dublin City in 2004 but left abruptly on bad terms [4], called the club's actions "disgraceful" [5] Dublin City FC Website The Vikings on FAI.ie This article related to sport in Ireland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.   This article about a European football club is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.