Irvine Afc: Last News

amateur football team homeless just weeks before the start of the season.At a special AGM on Thursday night, the board of Irvine Sports Club voted to facilitate the return of Irvine Ladies Hockey Club to play their matches on the main grass pitch at Marress playing fields for the first time since the 1990s.The pitch has been used for football in the intervening decades – primarily by the now defunct Clark Drive Amateurs – and for the last four years by Irvine AFC who have rented the park on a pay-to-play basis.But now the amateur side have been told there is no room for them at the facility, leaving them without a home ahead of the season starting on August 7.The club revealed their dismay at the decision in a statement issued on Facebook

Ayrshire football team has been left homeless amid claims they were 'forced out' of their local community sports club.Amatuer side Irvine AFC say they have been left with no pitch to play or train on following a special AGM at Irvine sports club last night.A statement posted on Irvine AFC's Facebook page this afternoon claimed their park at the club will be turned into a hockey pitch.It read: "After a special AGM called at Irvine sports club last night, we now find ourselves homeless with no pitch to play or train on."Four-and-a-bit years of treating the place in the best possible way to now be forced out of the club and one of the best football parks in the west of Scotland, will now be turned into a hockey pitch.The Ayrshire Live app is