Sligo Rovers and IT Sligo have announced a new link-up which aims to increase the number of local and regional players advancing to play with the club’s first team and underage squads.
As part of the agreement, two scholarships will be co-funded annually by IT Sligo and Rovers.
The scholarships will be available for male and female players, where the students will play professionally with the club and also participate in the college’s football club, who participate in the CUFL & WSCAI leagues throughout the academic year.
The club will also have use of state of the art facilities at the college for first-team and underage squads, including the Institute’s Knocknarea Arena as well as the grass and all weather pitches on site. The IT Sligo logo will also appear on the Sligo Rovers first team kits.
Chairman Martin Heraghty spoke of his delight of the partnership: “It has always been important to establish a link with IT Sligo and to create scholarship programme that would be open to both male and female footballers. Everyone at the football club will really buy into this, as we feel the long term results will see more local talent coming through to the first team.
“Training times will be adjusted to allow students to attend college and the train with the team afterwards, or vice versa. We are all delighted with the agreement and look forward to the future.”
The first two players who will attend IT Sligo in September 2019 will be announced in the coming weeks
