The last soccer game ever before redevelopment was Derry City's FAI Cup final win against St. Patrick's Athletic on 3 December 2006.

Derry City FC | Derry City's twelfth man in Paris, France.

The Traditions of Derry City F. C .# Match-day programme | official programme from a home game against Sligo Rovers on 17 November 1985 in Derry City's first League of Ireland season

Derry City's first exclusive crest, introduced in 1986 and replaced in 1997 by the crest which lasted to 2009.

Derry City's home ground is the municipal Brandywell Stadium, situated just south-west of the Bogside in the Brandywell area of Derry.

Plans of Derry City's to purchase a pitch fell through after its formation due to the tight time-scale between its foundation in 1928 and the season's beginning in 1929 and so the Londonderry Corporation ( now the Derry City Council ) was approached for the use of the Brandywell which had been used for football up until the end of the 19th century.

A graphical representation of Derry City's historical standings in the IFA Premiership | Irish League and League of Ireland

Derry City's fans in the Parc des Princes, Paris on 28 September 2006

He has also helped Derry City's local rivals, Finn Harps, in their time of need.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

Derry begun in 1613, was the first planned city in Ireland, with the walls being completed five years later.

* 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

gigs performed at The Casbah gave the Undertones increased confidence in their musical ability, and in June 1977 they performed concerts outside of Derry for the first time, supporting a Dublin punk group named The Radiators from Space.

* Completion of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, Ireland, the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe.

Derry was given its first charter by James I in 1604, but the garrison was attacked and destroyed by Cahir O ' Doherty in 1608.

The town was first settled in 1768 by John and Martha Taggart, immigrants from Derry, Ireland.

The first official government in Derry Township was established in 1759.

The original " Derry " in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania was named after the city Derry in Northern Ireland, because the area ’ s first non-Indian inhabitants were Scotch-Irish.

Derry was the first ever planned city in Ireland.

Before her trip to Lebanon she visited Derry on one of her last official engagements to Northern Ireland, becoming the inaugural speaker at the first Conversations Across Walls and Borders event in First Derry Presbyterian Church.

He decided against becoming a minister and went to work first as a bank clerk in Derry, where Mrs Mitchel's brother, William Haslett, was director of a bank, and then in late 1835 or early 1836, he entered the office of a Newry solicitor, John Quinn, who was a friend of his father.

He publicised a pamphlet by his uncle, Mr Haslet, Mayor of Derry, on the estates of the London Societies in Ulster, wrote a leading article entitled " Convicted Criminals ", and contributed half of an article on " Anti-Irish Catholics ", the first part of which was written by Thomas Davis.

Derry was the first ever planned city in Ireland.

The gallery was known for bringing the work of significant international artists to Derry, notably an installation of sculptures by Antony Gormley on the city walls, one of the artist's first Public Art projects, as well as promoting Irish artists, such as Willie Doherty, abroad.

In the 20th century, Dundalk's secondary railway links were closed: first the line to Greenore in 1951 and then that to Derry in 1957.

In 1719, the first American potato was grown in Derry, then a part of Londonderry.

The town's nickname, " Space-town ", derives from the fact that Derry is the birthplace of Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in space.

Although it was first settled by Scottish-Irish families in 1719, Derry was not incorporated until 1827.

The family moved, first to Derry City, where his younger brother Dónal was born in 1949, and then to Cork, where the two brothers were raised, and where Rory attended the North Monastery School.

The Fleadh will be held in Derry in 2013, the first time that it will be held in Northern Ireland.

That day, 21 November 1920, became known as the original Bloody Sunday — not to be confused with the 1972 Bloody Sunday in Derry City — when the Black and Tans attacked a Gaelic football game at Croke Park and shot at the crowd and players indiscriminately, killing 14 civilians.

In the early 1900s hunters would travel by horse from as far as Derry to camp and stalk game in the renowned swamp.

Derry did not complete the next round, as the Irish Football Association ( IFA ) declared its ground as not up to standard, even though a game had been played there during the previous round.

The Derry City team lined up prior to the game with Sligo Rovers in the 2006 FAI Cup semi-final at the Showgrounds, Sligo on 29 October

However, Derry won the game 2 – 1 on aggregate after extra-time at the Brandywell and remained in the top-flight, avoiding further damage.

By the end of October 2010 Derry had clinched the First Division title and with it, promotion back to the premier division after winning 1 – 0 away at Monaghan United in the last game of the season.

The game was broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2 and finished 1 – 1 with Gary Beckett scoring for Derry.

The documentary was produced in the aftermath of the historic friendly game between Derry and Linfield that took place on 22 February 2005 – the first between the two teams to occur since a game on 25 January 1969 during which Linfield's fans had to be evacuated from the Brandywell by police at half-time due to civil unrest and ugly scenes within the ground.

Monaghan United played their first League of Ireland game in 1985 against Derry City at Belgium Park.

Their first League of Ireland game was played on 8 October 1985 at home to Derry City and ended in a 1-1 draw.

The last ever soccer game to be played at the old Lansdowne Road was the 2006 final, contested between St. Patrick's Athletic and Derry City, who ran out eventual 4-3 winners after extra-time.

2011 saw Kildare advance to the Leinster semi-final after defeating Meath in the Leinster quarter-final only to be defeated by Dublin. Kildare had a good run in the qualifiers beating teams like Laois, Meath & Derry to advance to the All-Ireland quarter-final to face Ulster champions Donegal which turned to be a very poor performance but the 2nd half was a real contest from both sides with the sides finishing level to drag the game into extra-time only to be defeated by a single point by Donegal.

Floodlights were erected over the end of 2007 / start of 2008 and were first used for the National League game between Derry and Mayo on 2 February 2008.