Documentary on Jimmy Hasty has won the prestigious Sportel award

The documentary on Jimmy Hasty which was made last year has won the prestigious

SPORTEL AWARDS at a ceremony in Monaco.

This award is presented each year to the best sports documentary across all sports, not just football.

Rich Milway, the Producer, was delighted to win and thanked all who had contributed to the making of the programme including the Hasty and Malone families, Dundalk FC and other contributors,

Including the four surviving teammates of Jimmy. They are John Murphy, Francie Callan PATSIE  McKeown and Davy McArdle. The four were recently presented to the crowd at half time, marking

the 60th anniversary of the win in Zurich. Dundalk were the first Irish side to win a European match away from home.

The documentary is still available on RTE and Virgin on demand.

 It tells the story of a one-armed player who because of the belief of Jim Malone became a professional footballer winning Dundalk’s first league in 30 years. He returned to Belfast where 11 years later he was murdered by the UVF leaving a widow and two small boys.

Known affectionately as the “one armed wonder” owing to an amputated arm, the result of a mill accident at age 14, Hasty was signed from Newry FC in 1960 and scored 103 goals over six seasons for Dundalk.

The first of which came on his debut against Cork Celtic.

He was also a key part of the 1963 league winning Dundalk team that ended their 30-year wait for the title.

Faced with opposition from a board who were unsure how wise it was to sign a one armed player, then Dundalk Chairman Jim Malone took it upon himself to sign Hasty and pay his first weeks wages with his own money.

One of his finest moments was scoring in Dundalk’s famous 2-1 win against FC Zurich in Switzerland, the first time an Irish team had won a match in Europe.

Hasty is remembered as one of Dundalk's greatest ever players. In 1974 Hasty was shot and killed by loyalist paramilitaries while walking to work in Belfast.

Former Dundalk players and team mates of Hasty John Murphy and Francie Callan (the other scorer in the Zurich game) will feature in the documentary along with Jimmy’s wife Margaret, his two sons Martin and Paul and Jim Malone's son Paddy.

Landmarks around the town will serve as the backdrop for the film as will a number of locations in Belfast.

The film is being shot by British company Noah Media on behalf of UEFA and is expected to be released on UEFA's streaming platform UEFA.tv as well as made available to all of UEFA's club competition broadcast partners worldwide.

The documentary is expected to be broadcast this autumn although no exact release date has been confirmed.