Carrick Rangers Football Club is a semi-professional Northern Irish football club playing in NIFL Premiership. The club, founded in 1939, hails from Carrickfergus, County Antrim and plays its home matches at Taylors Avenue which is known as the Loughview Leisure Arena due to sponsorship reasons, which is owned by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Carrick Rangers main rivals are Larne, with matches between the sides being known as, "The East Antrim Derby." Ballyclare Comrades are also local rivals. The club was formed in 1939, when two teams from the Carrickfergus & District Summer League – Barn Mills and Bubbles decided to merge. In 1940, the new club joined the Belfast Minor League and took up residence at Taylors Avenue, then known as the Barn Field: 21–22 They won the County Antrim Junior Shield in 1941–42: 28 and in 1943 gained admission to the Northern Amateur League,: 31 of which they were the champions in 1948–49 and 1951–52.: 55, 63 1952 saw the club's elevation to the Intermediate League, necessary ground improvements being made at the Barn Field, now known as Taylors Avenue,: 65 and then, following the demise of that competition, to the Irish Alliance in 1954 and eventually the Irish League B Division in 1957.: 73, 81–82 As members of the Alliance, Carrick won the McKelvey Cup, a knock-out cup for league members, in 1956–57.: 81 More information...
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