Hilden F.C.
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| Full name | Hilden F.C. | |
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| Founded | 1884 | |
| Dissolved | 1923 | |
| Ground | Hilden Football Ground | |
| Hon. President | J. Milne Barbour | |
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Hilden Football and Athletic Club was an association football club from Lisburn in Northern Ireland.
The club's first match was a credibtable 4–1 defeat to the more experienced Hertford club just before Christmas 1884.[1] Its first competitive football came in the 1885–86 Irish Cup, again losing 4–1 to Hertford. The club was in essence the works side of the William Barbour & Sons linen factory.[2]
Hilden's best run was to the semi-final in 1888–89, which featured its biggest Cup win (13–0 over Seapatrick)[3] and, in the semi-final against Distillery, its biggest defeat (by the same score).[4]
As semi-professionalism coalesced around a handful of clubs in Ireland, Hilden moved into junior football, its last Irish Cup tie being a 12–1 defeat at home to Ulster in 1890–91.[5] Hilden's biggest success was winning the Irish Junior Cup in 1896–97, thanks to a 2–0 win over Dunmurry at Grosvenor Park, the goals coming from M'Intyre and Curry.[6]
The club joined the Irish Alliance in 1917,[7] but the club's last recorded fixtures were in the 1922–23 season,[8] with a new football side, Hilden Recreation, emerging in the 1930s.