Portmore United F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Portmore United


fullname = Portmore United Football Club
nickname =
founded =
ground = Ferdi Neita Sports Complex Portmore, Jamaica
capacity = 2,000
chairman = flagicon|Jamaica Wayne Sinclair
technical director = flagicon|Jamaica Horace Reid
owner =
manager = flagicon|Jamaica Linval Dixon
league = Digicel Premier League
season = 2007-2008
position = 1st
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Portmore United F.C. is a Jamaican football team who currently play in the Digicel Premier League. They play at the Ferdi Neita Sports Complex.

History

Portmore United, originally "Hazard United", has been around for more than 20 years. The club started out in the Clarendon League in Division 2, then played 2 years in Division 1 when they qualified for Craven A Premier League. They have been in Premier League ever since.

In 2003 the name was changed primarily for financial reasons. JFF now stipulates that each club must have stands that can seat at least 1,500 persons. Clarendon does not have one. So to facilitate this requirement, the team moved to St. Catherine and now uses the Ferdi Neita Sports Complex. Both Clarendon and St. Catherine Football association agreed to the sharing of the complex initially. In 2002, the St. Catherine association suggested Hazard change their affiliation and become a St. Catherine team. In St. Catherine however the home crowd has not grown, because the team name was still associated with Clarendon… so to get a parish identity they have changed their name to Portmore United.

The club also has an Under 21 team, some of whom have represented the country

Achievements

*CFU Club Championship: 1:: 2005
*Jamaican National Premier League: 4:: 1993, 2003, 2005, 2008
*Jamaican Cup: 4:: 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007

Notable former players

*flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago Russel latapy
*flagicon|Jamaica Paul Young
*flagicon|Jamaica Anthony Corbett
*flagicon|Jamaica Linval Dixon
*flagicon|Jamaica Claude Davis
*flagicon|Jamaica Shavar Thomas
*flagicon|Jamaica Teafore Bennett
*flagicon|Jamaica Omar Daley
*flagicon|Jamaica Rudolph Austin

Current squad

"As of December 16, 2007

Nationality given from place of birth

External links

* [http://www.golocaljamaica.com/premierleague/scores/team_profile.php?tid=1 Team profile at Golocaljamaica]