Shamrock Rovers in the community
From our Tallaght home across Dublin and beyond, Shamrock Rovers works in the community year-round - through the Shamrock Rovers Community Foundation, our social and community partnership with Dublin Simon Community, the Future Forests sustainability initiative, and a club-wide commitment to inclusion.
The Shamrock Rovers Community Foundation
"Shamrock Rovers Community Foundation will focus on engaging with local schools in areas facing social and economic challenges, using football and sport as a platform to promote health, wellbeing, positive life choices, and improved school engagement among young people."
Now up and running, the Foundation works alongside the club's existing community programme to maximise its impact - funding and managing projects, mainly for young people, across the Tallaght area.
Working with partners
A social and community partnership to promote Dublin Simon Community's fundraising events - the Longest Day, the Simon Home Run and Sing for Simon - alongside facility sharing and education for players and supporters about homelessness in Dublin.
"Already, Shamrock Rovers has made several commitments both at fundraising and service-user level to support us in our vision to make home a reality for people experiencing and at risk of homelessness in Dublin and the surrounding counties. We look forward to experiencing the positive impact of this partnership on the lives of our clients and residents in the weeks and months ahead."
Sustainability
In This Together Future Forests is a community-driven initiative planting native trees across Ireland and supporting the Shamrock Rovers Academy, in partnership with Sharp Group - contributing towards Ireland's goal of 440 million trees by 2040. It helps businesses, schools and community groups meet CSRD sustainability commitments through meaningful local action, while investing in local youth and sport.
One Club, One Community
"Shamrock Rovers is committed to inclusion, and to reducing barriers to access to the best matchday experience in Ireland."
That commitment is reflected in the facilities and services in place at Tallaght Stadium, and in an open invitation to supporters to tell the club how access and the matchday experience can be improved for anyone with additional needs.
Research partnership
A research project by the TU Dublin School of Media's Media Production & Digital Arts degree programme, on the Tallaght Campus, documenting the impact Shamrock Rovers has had on its match-going supporters and on the wider Tallaght community. Set against the club's 125th year, the 15th anniversary of the move to Tallaght and the 30th year of the degree, the team is gathering film, audio and photography to build a digital historical record of fan and volunteer voices.
Latest from the community
Across Dublin and beyond
We work with a number of community football clubs not just in the Tallaght area but through Dublin and beyond. Check out our network of Partner, Associate and Alliance Clubs below.
Our partner clubs programme has been put together by the Academy over the last four years. We have a very focused relationship with our partner clubs, Corduff FC, Crumlin United, Lucan United and Templeogue United, and work with all of them on a weekly basis. We run emerging talent programmes, blitzes, and in-house friendlies and their players are invited to train at the SRFC Academy in Roadstone.
As well as working with the young players, we also work with and coach the coaches of our partner clubs several times a month so they can work on congruency in terms of the club structure and raising the player development models across each football club.
Each club benefits from dedicated coaching support, access to Shamrock Rovers First Team matches, First Team players attending club events, Hooperman appearances and much more.
We have also formed relationships with several Affiliate clubs in the Tallaght area, as well as clubs further afield. We coach the coaches in these clubs and demonstrate how we do what we do at Roadstone on a small sided-games (SSGs) and the 11 aside game levels respectively.
These clubs are in and around our community of Tallaght such as Kilnamanagh AFC, Firhouse Carmel FC, Jobstown Celtic FC and Sacred Heart FC.
Further afield, we work with Athy Town, Ballyoulster United, Cambridge, Granada, Kilcullen, Lakelands, Leicester Celtic, Leixlip United, Newlands/Castle Park, Shankill FC and Sallins Celtic.
Our goal is to become more open and accessible to our fellow football clubs in Tallaght and the greater Dublin area. If you’re involved with a community football club that isn’t listed here but wants to get involved then please get in touch and we’ll be more than happy to talk about welcoming your club on board.
We welcome St. Joseph Boys (Joey’s) to the latest tier of our Programme. The Alliance is a collaborative partnership aimed at creating a seamless player development pathway between the two clubs. This Alliance allows players to progress from schoolboy football to the League of Ireland through structured engagement and shared resources, benefiting both clubs and their players.
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