 The club progressed into the intermediate ranks and soon become one of the top teams at that grade, winning the Leinster Senior League four times.In 1989–90 St Francis became the first non-League of Ireland side to reach an FAI Cup Final in over 50 years before finally losing to Bray Wanderers.Their fairytale story, combined with the final moving to Lansdowne Road saw a crowd of over 33,000 witness the historic final.