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The first live league game was broadcast on RTÉ2 from Tolka Park between Shels and Derry City ... Sligo Rovers: 1 2012: Drogheda United: 1 2007: Athlone Town: 1 1982 ...
Drogheda United Shamrock Rovers St Patrick's Athletic: Matches played: 180: Goals scored: 408 (2.27 per match) Top goalscorer: Patrick Hoban Pádraig Amond 14 goals each: Biggest home win: Drogheda United 7–0 Sligo Rovers (23 August 2024) Biggest away win: Dundalk 0–5 Sligo Rovers (4 March 2024) Highest scoring: Drogheda United 7–0 Sligo ...
Founded in 1919 the original Drogheda United were a non-league club for all of their early years of existence but on Saturday 22 June 1963 another Drogheda Club – Drogheda F.C. (founded in 1962) were elected to the League of Ireland when the league was expanded to include twelve teams rather than ten. In their first season there they finished ...
Broadcasting partners of the FAI - Setanta Sports, TG4 and RTÉ - agreed to televise over 50 live games in the 2007 season. The agreed games included League of Ireland games, as well as Setanta Cup matches and FAI Cup matches. TV3 also agreed to continue showing their highlights programme, eircom League Weekly, on a Monday night each week.
Drogheda United and Sligo Rovers contested the match. [1] [2] The match was shown live on RTÉ Two and RTÉ Two HD in Ireland and was refereed by Paul Tuite, assisted by Damien MacGraith and Michelle O’Neill with Derek Tomney as Fourth Official. The Referee Observer was John Duffy. [3] Sligo Rovers won the cup for the third time in four years.
Drogheda United were generally seen as underdogs coming into the game [1] but they successfully claimed their first major trophy by winning the match. [6] It was Cork City's first appearance in the final since 1998. Drogheda United last contested the final in 1976. [7] Live coverage of the match was provided on RTÉ Two and RTÉ Radio 1. [8]
The League of Ireland was founded in 1921 as a single division known as the A Division. The inaugural season featured eight teams from County Dublin, all of whom had spent the 1920–21 season playing in the Leinster Senior League: Bohemians, Dublin United, Frankfort, Jacobs, Olympia, St James's Gate, Shelbourne and YMCA.
Current locations of Dublin-based League of Ireland clubs. Founded in 1921 the League of Ireland is the national association football league of the Republic of Ireland. . Formed by the Football Association of Ireland out of split with the Irish Football Association for the first 65 years it consisted of a single division but since the mid 1980s it has expanded into a two tier system with a ...