Sligo Rovers are delighted to announce the details of the 2020 Easter Camps which will take place at The Showgrounds in April.

Week one of the Easter Camp will kick off on Monday April 6th and run until Friday April 10th.

Week two of the Easter Camp will kick off on Monday April 13th (Easter Monday) and run until Friday April 17th.

The cost of the camp remains capped at €60 for one child, €100 for two children from the one family and €135 for three children from the one family.

Each child who participates in the Easter Camp will receive a Sligo Rovers training top, a participation certificate, a photograph with senior players and a free pass to a home league game.

The camp runs from 10.30am until 3pm daily.

The optional Breakfast Club will run from 8.30am each morning of the camp, where the children get to enjoy a healthy breakfast in The Showgrounds with members of the first team. There are also fully supervised indoor and outdoor activities for the children on the Breakfast Club which includes a presentation on the importance of nutrition.

Pre booking of the Breakfast Club is essential, with places limited to 25 children per week. The cost of the Breakfast Club is an additional €25 for the week per child.

For more information on the Easter Camp, you can contact Shane via email at shane@sligorovers.com or you can Tel 071-9171212.

To book a place on the 2020 Easter Camp for a week of your choice you can click here.

Sligo Rovers have teamed up with local sports shop Barton Smiths which will allow supporters to purchase club gear in Sligo Town.

The club have enjoyed a great partnership with Barton Smiths in recent years, most noticeably with the club operating its Christmas Shop from the premises.

Supporters can now purchase the clubs brand new home and away jersey in Barton Smiths and also some general merchandise such as hats and scarfs.

Sligo Rovers would like to thank David Smith and his staff for stocking our merchandise and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Barton Smiths in the months and years ahead.

The 2020 Super Reds open day will take place this coming Sunday, February 2nd in The Showgrounds.

Registration for the event itself will open from 1.15pm in our new clubhouse, with activities on the day commencing from 2pm and finishing at 4pm.

Please note this event is exclusive to our Super Red members for 2020.

Our Super Reds will receive their free training kit on the day along with their 2020 season ticket. (Providing the application was received by the club before January 24th).

Along with this, every Super Red member will get the opportunity to meet our first team players whilst also enjoying fun and games on the clubs astro pitch with them.

The club requests that all Super Reds must be accompanied by a parent on the day.

The clubs merchandise shop will be open from 1.30pm.

If your child has applied to be a Super Red for 2020 and you are unable to attend on Sunday, please contact Shane at the club on 071-9171212 or email him Shane@sligorovers.com

If you would like your child to become a Super Red for 2020 there is still time. You can apply here.

The 2019 SSE Airtricity League awards took place in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim Co. Meath yesterday, with the Bit O’ Red represented at the ceremony by club employee Shane Crossan.

There were eight awards in total, with Sligo Rovers making an application for four categories. Applications for the awards were sent to the FAI by Shane Crossan in September.

It proved to be a worthwhile trip to the east for the Bit O’ Red, with the club receiving three awards in total which included “Best Family Initiative 2019” “Best Supporters Contribution 2019” and runners up in “Best Matchday Experience 2019”.

In regards to “Best family Initiative 2019” the FAI commented on the Breakfast Club associated with our kids camps, the memorabilia around the ground, activities with our younger supporters such as our Super Red open day and our birthday parties which take place at the club every week.

For “Supporters Contribution Award 2019” the FAI referenced the new seating which was installed this year in the main stand, the phenomenal money raised in the Annual Draw this year and our strong average home attendance of 2,000 supporters per game.

In the category for “Best Matchday experience” the Bit O’ Red received the runners up award with the FAI complimenting the club on its entertainment at home games such as local clubs playing at half time, acknowledging our sponsors on the pitch at half time, allowing supporters access to players on match nights and providing a safe and fun environment for supporters to enjoy.

Shane Crossan spoke at the ceremony on behalf of the club and thanked the FAI and SSE Airtricity for holding the event and thanked them for acknowledging the hard work Sligo Rovers do off the pitch.

He added ” To collected these awards on behalf of Sligo Rovers Football Club is something I am very proud of”.

“These awards are in recognition for all the hard work we do as a football club off the pitch”.

“The three awards today are for everyone associated with the club. From club employees, to committee members, volunteers, sponsors and supporters these are for you”.

The SSE Airtricity Club Awards have been running since 2017. In their maiden year, the club received runners up in “Supporters Contribution Award” while in 2018 we also received runners up in “Best Matchday Experience”.

The Sligo Rovers Halloween Camp concluded on Friday last, which marked the end of kids camps for 2019.

This year brought in huge numbers yet again to The Showgrounds, with the clubs camps remaining one of the most popular kids camps in the region.

The club ran two weeks of camps at Easter, eight weeks over summer and one week over Halloween, with over 1,300 children participating throughout the year.

The optional Breakfast Club proved extremely popular yet again, selling out for five weeks during the year.

Camp coordinator, Shane Crossan, spoke of his delight at how well the camps were attended this year and added :

“2019 has been a fantastic year yet again, following on from the success of 2018.”

“The popularity of our camps here in The Showgrounds continues to grow every year and that is a testament to everyone involved in the running of them.”

“I would like to thank everyone who continues to support our camps here and I can not wait for our camps to start up again in 2020.”

The next camp will take place over Easter with full details announced in due course.

Bookings for the 2019 Halloween Camp are coming in very fast, with the camp kicking off on Monday morning.

The optional breakfast club which opens from 8.30am each morning is set to sell out, with less than 10 spaces remaining.

Anyone who wishes to attend the camp next week are urged to pre book, to avoid delays and long queues at the ground on Monday.

For more information on the Halloween Camp or to make a booking, you can contact Shane at the club on 071-9171212 or email shane@sligorovers.com

Alternatively you can reserve your place on the camp here.

The #bitored have worked with six primary schools in the region over the last two weeks, in conjunction with a poster competition developed by the club.

We asked children to design our match poster for our home league game with Shamrock Rovers next month, in schools such as Ransboro, Scoil Ursula, Rathcormac, St. Johns, The Mercy Primary and Carraroe.

The competition was aimed at children in third, fourth, fifth and sixth class respectively.

The club received over 300 entries to the competition, with the club picking a winner in each classroom and presenting them with a small prize from the club.

The club then picked an outright winner from each respective school, with these final six drawings now going to public vote to decide which design will be used as our match poster next month.

To show our appreciation to every child who entered the competition, the club have committed to displaying every entry to the competition in the ground on the night of the game against Shamrock Rovers on October 5^th.

The outright winner of the competition will be invited to the game with their family as VIPs, receive a signed match poster and match day programme from the club, be introduced to the crowd at half time and will also get their picture taken on the night for local media.

Below are the finalists for the competition, the child’s name, age and school listed also. Voting will be open for 24 hours and the winner will be contacted on Thursday.

Vote for your winner here.

The 2019 Sligo Rovers Summer Camps, sponsored by The Sligo Champion have come to a close after eight hugely successful weeks in The Showgrounds.

The Summer Camps which began on July 1^st brought hundreds of children to The Showgrounds, in what was an action packed summer for everyone involved.

This was the first year in which the club brought foreign exchange students to the camp, with over 50 international students attending from countries such as Spain, Italy and France.

The Breakfast Club proved extremely popular once again, selling out for three of the eight weeks with the children eating their breakfast in The Showgrounds while also meeting members of the first team squad before the camp commenced each day.

Camp co-ordinator, Shane Crossan, spoke of his delight at how well the camps went while also paying tribute to the coaches. He added

“2019 has proven to be the biggest year for Summer Camps in the clubs history and that is something I am very proud to say.

“The success of the camps year in year out would not be possible without the hard work of the coaches who have proven very popular amongst the kids yet again.

“I would like to pay tribute to Lorraine Mc Donnell in The Sligo Champion and to all of her staff who sponsored our Summer Camps yet again this year. To have such a strong local brand supporting our camps is an honour and a testament to the camp itself.

“Finally I would like to thank all parents who brought their children to The Showgrounds this Summer as without their support and trust the Sligo Rovers camps would not be the success they are today.

Sligo Rovers Football Club would like to wish all of the children the very best of luck as they return to school and we look forward to welcoming them all back again at our Halloween camp in October. Full details of the Halloween Camp will be released in the coming weeks.

Sligo Rovers are partnering with Nazareth Nursing Home Sligo and Ballymote Community Nursing Unit in 500 km/1000 km Challenge in aid of both nursing homes.

Together, they challenge you to get out and about and to cover 500km or 1000km in one year all while raising funds for this very worthy cause.

Walk it, jog it, run it or even dance it. The choice is yours. You will need to walk just 1.4km every day to cover the 500km in the year and double it to cover the 1000km. You may already be a keen walker or runner and achieve this over a number of marathons or you may be starting off from the couch to 5km, either way, do it your way.

Take this on as a personal challenge, or better still, get your family, friends and colleagues involved.

Whatever way you take part, the sponsorship you raise is supporting Nazareth Nursing Home Sligo and Ballymote Community Nursing Unit to build and refurbish their Nursing homes, so that people living there have the most comfortable homes where they can live out their lives in style.

Each participant will receive a medal and certificate on completion of the challenge.

Sligo Rovers are delighted to be supporting our neighbours with the campaign, further evidence to the club being at the heart of the community once again.

It’s free to join, all you have to do is go to www.thenazarethcarefund.com/walkingchallenge and fill in your details to register. The 365 days begins the day you register.

Sligo Rovers would like to thank both the Match Sponsor and Match Ball Sponsor from last Friday’s home league game against Cork City.

The Match Sponsor on the night was Callan Tansey Solicitors, while the Match Ball was sponsored by Flynns Bar Carrick-On-Shannon.

Callan Tansey solicitors are an award winning law firm with offices based in Sligo, Dublin, Boyle, Ballina and Galway. Callan Tansey offer legal advice and legal services for both businesses and individuals in areas such as medical claims, personal injury, business disputes and corporate law.

Flynns Bar Carrick-On-Shannon is one of Carricks premier bars located on Main Street in the town, beside the smallest church in Ireland.

Our thanks to both Callan Tansey and Flynns Bar for their continued sponsorship of the club and overall support as a whole.