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The 2024 FAI Cup Final, known as the 2024 Sports Direct FAI Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was the final match of the 2024 FAI Cup, the national association football cup of the Republic of Ireland. The match took place on Sunday 10 November 2024 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, between Drogheda United and Derry City. [1] [2]
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 ...
The 2024 FAI Cup, known as the Sports Direct FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, [1] was the 104th edition of the Republic of Ireland's primary national cup competition. It featured teams from the League of Ireland Premier Division and the First Division, as well as teams from the regional leagues of the Republic of Ireland football league system.
The ninth-placed team (Drogheda United) from the 2024 League of Ireland Premier Division qualified for a play-off alongside the second, third, fourth, and fifth-placed teams from the 2024 League of Ireland First Division (Athlone Town, Bray Wanderers, UCD, and Wexford). The First Division teams contest the semi-finals and final.
After two defeats in Cup Finals in the 1970s, Drogheda United finally reached the summit in 2005. Goals from Gavin Whelan (whose father, Paul, captained Bohemians to the 1992 cup and whose grandfather, Ronnie , won two cups with St. Patrick's Athletic ) and captain Declan O'Brien helped "the Drogs" to a 2–0 win over Cork City .
On 14 December 2023, he returned to the club on a permanent basis, signing a new contract for the 2024 season. [18] [19] On 23 August 2024, he scored the second goal of his career, in a 7–0 win at home to Sligo Rovers. [20] Kane started the 2024 FAI Cup final on 11 November 2024, as his side defeated Derry City 2–0 at the Aviva Stadium to ...
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 ...
On 12 April 2024, he scored his first goal for the club with an 86th-minute equaliser in a 2–2 draw with Derry City at United Park. [13] On 10 November 2024, Pierrot started in the 2024 FAI Cup final as his side defeated Derry City 2–0 at the Aviva Stadium to win the cup for the first time in 19 years.