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Sligo Rovers 2–3 Waterford (15 February 2025) Highest scoring: Sligo Rovers 2–3 Waterford (15 February 2025) Longest winning run: Bohemians Shelbourne Waterford (1 match) Longest unbeaten run: Bohemians Cork City Drogheda United Galway United Shelbourne St Patrick's Athletic Waterford (1 match) Longest winless run: Cork City Derry City ...
The match took place on Sunday 10 November 2024 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, between Drogheda United and Derry City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Drogheda won the game 2-0 to win the FAI Cup for the second time in their history.
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.
The Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup [1] (FAI Cup), known as the Sports Direct FAI Cup [2] for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association football competition contested annually by teams from the Republic of Ireland (as well as Derry City from Northern Ireland).
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 ...
Sligo Rovers Football Club was formed on 17 September 1928 as a result of an amalgamation of two junior sides, Sligo Town and Sligo Blues. Their first game was a 9–1 victory against Ballyshannon , a team from County Donegal in Ulster , on 23 September 1928 in the qualifying round of the Connacht Cup.
Drogheda United were appearing in the final for the 3rd time, having lost the previous two finals they had contested (in 1976 and 1971). Cork had won the competition once previously, in 1998 and had been runners-up on two occasions, (in 1992 and 1989). Cork City went into the game as League of Ireland champions so they were in contention for ...
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 ...