Manager: Barry Kirwan
Assistant: Mate Salacan

Top Goalscorer : Jack Keegan, Niall Holleran (5)
Most Assists : Niall Holleran (4)
Player of the Year: Rory Carberry

Goal of the Season: Carlos Monserrat v Ballyoulster United

​Seaford’s second team. battled hard, and made dramatic improvement during the second half of the season, but ended up being relegated by the narrowest of margins after three seasons in Major 1C.

Baz Kirwan’s side got off to a flying start by beating a highly talented young Mount Merrion side on the opening-day sunshine at Rockfield Park with  Shane Halpin scoring the crucial goal, the stalwart making a fine start to the season with three goals in four.

But the Penguins’ early optimism was quickly punctured by a losing streak that ended up extending to nine matches, which included a few thrashings against the likes of Montpelier and Dublin University. 

However, towards Christmas the performance levels were on a gradual upward trajectory , even if the side couldn’t quite manage to convert them into results, being desperately unlucky not to pick something up away at Oliver Bond or at home against MP.

Rooted to the foot of the table, the breakthrough finally arrived with a famous win away at Ballyoulster in January,  with Niall Holleran’s brace helping Seaford to a 2-4 win.

Playing with much more confidence now, Seaford started chasing down their relegation rivals with a terrific comeback draw at Castleknock and a dominant win over Dublin University, which left them with a great shot at safety.

Back-to-back fixtures against Pegasus were vital, and the luckless Penguins lost both, being especially aggrieved in the away match that Mate Salacan’s free knock was awarded as a goal in the dying stages. 

There was still chance for one last shot at salvation, in the do-or-die finale against direct rivals Newbridge Town. Finding themselves two down during the first half, Baz’s boys showed guys in abundance to fight back and secure an unforgettable 3-2 win courtesy of Danny Walsh’s late winner.

Heartbreakingly though, Newbridge managed to pull themselves out of the soup in their final game, beating champions Montpelier to relegate Seaford on goal difference.

A sad conclusion for a team featuring a number of talented teenagers making their first forays into men’s football. At times they found themselves slightly out of their depth in a strong division, but they can be proud of the fight shown and how close they came. 

Manager: Alan Burns
Assistant: Sam Browne

Top Goalscorer (Majors): Ryan Scollard (14)
Most Assists (Majors): Ryan Scollard (8)
Majors Player of the Year: Al Kennedy

Goal of the Season: Ryan Scollard v St Francis

Seaford's season failed to deliver on its early promise, as what began as a promotion push ended up in a battle against relegation, with injuries and a frantic late-season schedule taking its toll on Alan Burns's side.

After an existing opening season draw at St Francis and a dominant thrashing of St Pats CY, there followed a disappointing home defeat to Ashbourne, which punctured momentum. But the Penguins bounced back with five straight wins in all competitions, with Sam Browne scoring the crucial goals in consecutive cup wins over St Kevin's and Leixlip United. 

Then the pendulum swung back in the other direction as Seaford's form deserted them over the wintertime, even if they suffered from a complete lack of good fortune in losing on consecutive Saturdays to eventual champions Malahide United.

There was some respite in the FAI Junior Cup, with the club reaching the national draw for only the second time in its history courtesy of a third-round win over Booth Road Celtic, but the impressive run came to an end despite a strong display away at St John Bosco.  

Back in the league, safety was ensured due to a three big wins in the space of a couple of weeks, as Burnsie's boys smashed promotion-chasing Killester at Rockfield Park before deploying registering two more four-goal wins home and away against Maynooth Town.

That rendered the rest of the campaign moot, as a manic May fixture list took its toll on the players, but the dismal late-season run wasn't a fair reflection of the quality the side showed throughout the year.

Seaford ended their season with a sensational comeback win to haul themselves out of the relegation zone and leave the visitors in big trouble.

Baz Kirwan's men started brightly but found themselves behind on 13 minutes, as the first Newbridge attack finished with a clinical outcome: playmaker Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun laid in winger Destiny Asemota, who smashed it home.

Unbowed, the Penguins continued to make the running. Jamie McCaul headed just wide from a Greg Hughes cross, and then Danny Walsh almost caught out keeper Brady Adams with a clever effort, but it bounced off the post.  Walsh then met Jack Keegan's corner with a powerful header, but it was just wide.

And then, another sucker=punch. Aaron Donohoe whipped in a free kick, and Jack Foley Donohoe buried it.

With their season slipping out of their grasp, Seaford needed a huge response. It began when Rory Carberry made a barnstorming run upfield from right back before being hauled down on the edge of the box. Keegan slotted the free kick as nervelessly as he despatches his penalties - an inch-perfect finish into the bottom corner.

Trailing at the break despite having the better of the play, the Penguins needed a massive display to save their campaign. Daniel Mac Dermott set the tone, dominating the midfield area and driving the team forward.

The pressure ratcheted up, and finally the equaliser arrived. From Keegan's delivery, Alan McGeady attacked the near post like Keane in Turin, and found the back of the net.

But only a win would do for Seaford. Keegan produced a clever back-heel to put Walsh through, but under pressure from defenders, he wasn't able to apply the finish. But the big striker grabbed the crucial goal with ten to play, sliding in to convert at the back post after a brilliant run and cross from Zitian Xiang.

Raucous celebrations, but the job wasn't done. Fighting for their lives, Seaford hassled and harried Newbridge all over the pitch, forcing the Kildare men backwards. Substitute Shane Halpin had a couple of sights at goal but couldn't find the net. Five minutes stoppage time became six and then seven, until finally the whistle blew.

The three points lift Seaford off the bottom of the table for the first time in months, meaning Newbridge need to beat champions Montpelier in their final match to avoid the drop.

Seaford:  Fionn McLoughlin, Rory Carberry, Zitian Xiang, Fionn Geoghegan, (Shane Halpin, 75), Alan McGeady, Daniel Mac Dermott, Greg Hughes, Jack Keegan, Conor Fennell (Niall Holleran, 85), Jamie McCaul (Eoin O'Farrell, 90+3), Danny Walsh (Desmond Eiffe, 90+5)

Newbridge Town: 1 Brady Adams, 2 Jack Ralph, 4 Darijus Peveraitis, 5 Adam McHugh, 6 Aaron Donohoe, 7 Airidas Peveraitis, 8 Ben Shanahan, 9 Jack Foley Donohoe, 10 Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun, 17 Maxwell Maina, 18 Destiny Asemota. Subs: 12 Aidan Prestreshi, 13 Samuel Mchivga, 14 Alexander Minihan, 15 Elijah Emmanuel

Seaford produced a lion-hearted performance but exited the FAI Junior Cup after being edged out in  extra time at Brickfield Park.

It was a dream start for the Penguins, who led inside three minutes through  Ryan Scollard, as the prolific striker pounced on Eoin Fitzpatrick’s undercooked backpass to skip around  Javier Zumárraga and finished with his left. 

2 almost redeemed himself when he arrived at the back post to attack Shane Jenkinson’s cross but headed just over. The visitors maintained a threat on the break. Midfield schemer Thomas Murphy started .many of the moves and almost finished ones his 20 yard piledriver was comfortably dealt with by Zumárraga   

Bosco’s dangerman Alex Taaffe almost leveled halfway through the opening period , but blazed over after cleverly working a yard. But the same man made no mistake on 31, smashing an unstoppable shot past Oisin Geoghegan after being put in by Michael Eustace’s clever scoop. 

If Seaford had spent much of the first balcony fhe back foot, it was a different story after the break as they showed more attacking threat. Scollard ought to have bagged his second of the night when Jamie Cogan diverted Murphy’s cross into his path, but the usually nerveless marksman smashed his shot wide with Zumárraga ​ out of this goal .  

Despite piling on late pressure , the visitors  couldn’t quite get the win in 90 and when the game resumed for extra time, Bosco flew out of the traps. In the first minute, Derek Lawlor cracked the underside of the crossbar with a ferocious strike , and shortly after they produced a moment of class to secure what proved to be the winner, as Ian O’Brian raced on to Lawlor’s throughball and slotted home via the far post. 

The Penguins surged foresee and were left wondering how ok earth they couldn’t force the ball in.  Ian Daly set MJ Tierney for a violent left-footed volley which would have burst the net but for a defender’s desperate lunch, and then Zumárraga somehow clawed  a Tierney corner out of by he top corner of his bet, before first Daly and then Brian Murphy had goalbound efforts blocked on the line. Even Sam Browne, surged forward from the back towrads the end and let go of a rasping striker off his left, but it was just off target.

A proud evening for the club but it just wasn’t Seaford’s day, Alan Burns’s men now focus on seeing out their remaining two league matches of what has been an energy-sapping season .

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche (Fionn Geoghegan, 45+1) , Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne, Al Kennedy, Ben Kelly, (MJ Tierney, 78) Thomas Murphy, Ian Daly Jack Keegan (Greg Hughes, 90+1) Jamie McCaul, Ryan Scollard

St John Bosco: 1 Javier Zumárraga, 2 Eoin Fitzpatrick, 3 Shane Jenkinson, 4 Jamie Cogan, 5 Joseph Mc Glue, 6 Vicente Adrain Alferez Diaz, 7 Michael Eustace, 8 Daniel Cully Beakhurst, 9 Alex Taaffe,  10 Derek Lawlor, 11 Ian O'Brien. Subs: 12 Dean Blood, 13 Sean McGuigan, 14 Gareth Byrne, 15 Scott Taaffe, 18 Mark Sandford

 Seaford secured their place in Major 1 with five games to spare with a second handsome win over Maynooth in the space of seven days, in a match that will be remembered for the great Ryan Scollard bringing up a century of goals for the club.. 

The match followed a similar pattern to the sides' previous clash in Blackrock a week prior, with Seaford comfortably dominating proceedings before half-time, before suffering a brief wobble early in the second period, and then re-establishing superiority. towards the end.

Scollard had to wait until the last kick of the game to record his landmark goal, but it would have been a lot sooner but for Corey McKeon in goals for the hosts, who made a brilliat save to deny Scollard's header on 14, making up for his own mistake after Rob O'Shea 
​had nicked hte ball off him before crossing in.

Instead it was Sam Browne who broke the deadlock, nodding home his sixth of the season after Scollard had flicked on Craig Conlon's corner..

Then the visitors gifted Seaford two quick goals in as many minutes. First, defender Ryan Moran concede possession to Fionn Nally, who did brilliantly to finish from a tight angle with his left, before McKeon let O'Shea's tame shot slip under him and into the het. 

It was 0-4 on the stroke of half-time as Scollard ran on to a long ball forward from keeper, Oisin Geoghegan and then teed to Nally for an easy finish.

But just as they'd done a weak earlier, Seaford let Maynooth back into the game witha  calamitous start to the second half. James Kelly headed home a free kick on 47 minutes, and then Ethan Hennessy punished Browne's error to make it 2-4 just four minutes into the second half. 

The Penguins' boat was rocking now and, despite dominating possession, they were struggling to generate much forward momentum. The crucial fifth goal arrived 20 minutes into the second half, as O'Shea completed a slick attack by receiving a perfectly weighted Jack Keegan pass and rounding McKeon for 5-2.

Scollard lashed home a free-kick in stoppage time for his big goal, meaning that Seaford are all-but mathematically safe for another campaign.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Rory Carberry, Brian Murphy (Zitian Xiang, 72),, Sam Browne, Eoin Mahon (Alan McGeady, 72), homas Murphy, (Jack Keegan, 63) Craig Conlon, Rob O'Shea, Fionn Nally (Darragh Connolly, 72),   Kuanxian Kang (Niall Holleran, 55)   Ryan Scollard

Maynooth Town: 1 Corey Mc Keon, 2 Ryan Moran, 3 Charlie Lyons, 4 Thomas Lunn, 5 Evan White, 6 Evan Hartnett, 7 James Kelly, 8 Jamie Lee Byrne, 9 Oisin Beirne, 10 Milosz Konczarek, 11 Ethan Hennessy. Subs: 12 Finn van Velzen, 13 Ethan Tansey, 14 Craig Fagen, 15 Daniel Tijani, 16 Rian Doyle, 18 Dumitru Mangir

Both sides were left with work to do to avoid the drop after a rough-and-tunuble clash at the Rockies.

Perspiration exceeded inspiration during a first half punctuated by full-blooded collisions in the air and on the ground. Ciaran McGlynn had the first opening fo rthe visitors, but lifted his shot just wide, before Garrett Connolly  teed up Ian Daly for Seaford, but the side-foot finish lacked power.

The Penguins hit the front through skipper  Al Kennedy, who waited 19 matches to break his seasonal duck only to bag two in the space of three days, this time arriving at the back post to conver Rob O'Shea's  whipped cross.

Liffeys ought to have levelled when Dylan Whelan fired low across the face of goal, but Philip Roche Hogan was unable to get his toe to it, and they could consider themselves unlucky to trail at the break.

The Penguins showed more in the second half and should have doubled their lead on the hour when Jamie McCaul released Daly with a great flick, and big playmaker, usually nerveless in front of goal,  sat down Gabriel Allionu but somehow failed to apply the finish with the goal at his mercy.

Gradually Liffeys regained their foothold, with Seaford's back four forced into ever more desparate interventions until eventually, on 77 minutes, the dam broke when Evan Byrne's free kick took a nick off the wall and wrong-footed Oisin Geoghegan. It almost got even worse for the home side four minutes later when Liffeys were awarded a penalty, but Dylan Murphy shot off target.

Momentum swung back in Seaford's favour, as they finished strongly. Twice Alilionu made spectacular saves to keep out Timi Silva's free kicks, before Sam Browne was inches off-target with a diving header. And Bursnie's boys had the ball in the net in the final minute courtesy of Fionn Nally, but it was chalked for a contentious offside call.

Neither side left satisfied with a single point, which puts Liffeys in relegation peril with just a single match left in their season. Seaford remain a point behind them but with five to play.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne, Al Kennedy , Craig Conlon, (Timi Silva, 71) Rob O'Shea, Fionn Nally,  Garrett Connolly (Conor Fennell, 62)   Ian Daly (Daniel Mac Dermott, 88) Jamie McCaul

Liffey Wanderers: 1 Gabriel  Alilionu, 2 Daniel Wilson, 3 Dylan Whelan Bray, 4 Daniel O'Connor, 5 Stephen Dillon, 6 Adam Walsh, 7 Ciaran McGlynn, 8 Sandip Chhantyal, 9 Philip Roche Hogan, 10 Jake Gregg, 11 Dylan Murphy Subs: 12 Luke Cunningham 14 Ethan Costello 15 Kyle Leyland Swaine 16 Evan Byrne 17 Alexander Salazar Rojas 18 Conor Doran

Seaford showed bottle and character to book a place in the quarter final of the Tom Carroll Cup with a hard-fought win over Kilnamanagh. 

The Penguins got off to a flying start when skipper Eoin O'Farrell whipped in a great fcross for Conor Fennell - not renowned for his aerial ability - to bury a header in the bottom corner after eight minutes.

Kilnamanagh had a great chance to level quickly when Alex Molloy almost got in at the back post only to be denied by a brilliant O'Farrell block, and Graham Moran fired the rebound over the bar. 

Seaford's second goal was spectacular. It was creadted by Mate Salacan , who bulldozed a Kilnamanagh midfielder with a meaty challenge, and when the ball broke for Michael Aherne-Gray , the teenager wrapped it into the top corner from more than 25 yards.

The visitors pulled one back through Luke Harman, but Seaford had a great chance to restore thier advantage right on half time when they were awarded a spot-kick. There was nothing wrong with Fennell's penalty but keeper Charlie Hughes sprang to his right to make a stunning save.

Into the second half, now facing ten man, Seaford continued to make the running.  Angel Nunez was dened a goal on his first start by a brilliant Kyle Fox tackle, and somehow Desmond Eiffe failed to convert a brilliant Fennell cross.

And Seaford were punished for their profligacy when the Rockets were awarded a penatly of their own , as Fionn McLoughlin was cruelly punished  for a trip, rushing off his line to grab the rebound form his own fine save.  Shane Maguire made no mistake from 12 yards and it was game on.

But Seaford got their noses in front with the game's third penalty., following a handball near the corner of the box affer an Oscar Fennell throw-in. This time Niall Holleran stuck it away for 3-2.

Kilnamanagh earned a second red card as the game ticked towards 90 minutes and Fennell, who was at the hart of all Seaford's best moves , sealed the win with a fourth in the last minute.

Seaford: Fionn McLoughlin, Eoin O'Farrell, Carlos Monserrat, Alan McGeady  Daniel Mac Dermott ,  Mate Salacan (Oscar Fennell, 76), Michael Aherne-Gray, Niall Holleran, Angel Nunez (Jakub Kot, 64) Conor Fennell,   Desmond Eiffe

Kilnamanagh: 1 Charlie Hughes, 2 Kyle Fox, 3 Alex Molloy, 4 Ryan Kelly, 5 Kenneth Clarke, 6 Conor Hayes, 7 Luke Haybyrne, 8 Luke Harman, 9 Keith Moloney, 10 Shane Maguire, 11 Graham Moran. Subs: 12 Seán Nugent, 13 James Sullivan, 14 Cian Ryan, 15 Mark Mc Sweeney, 16 Nathan Caswell, 17 Anthony Hanavey​