2005 Setanta Cup

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2005 Setanta Cup
Tournament details
CountryFile:Ulster Banner.svg Northern Ireland
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Republic of Ireland
Teams6
Final positions
ChampionsLinfield (1st title)
Runner-upShelbourne
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored33 (2.54 per match)
2006 →

The 2005 Setanta Cup was the first edition of the Setanta Sports Cup, a club football competition featuring teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland. It was inaugurated as a cross-border competition between clubs from the League of Ireland in the Republic of Ireland and the Irish League in Northern Ireland. The cup is sponsored by Setanta Sports; the Irish sports television network. The competition was launched with Setanta providing support for prize money (€350,000) and sponsorship (€1.6 million over 4 years). For this season the cup was simply known as the Setanta Cup before being renamed the Setanta Sports Cup from 2006 onwards. Glentoran beat Longford Town 2–1 in the first ever game of the competition on 15 March 2005. The first final saw Belfast side Linfield defeat Dublin's Shelbourne 2–0 at Tolka Park in Dublin on 21 May 2005 to collect the winner's prize of €150,000.[1]

Format

The teams would be split into two groups of 3 teams and play each other twice, once at home and once away. The winners of each group would play in a single game final, to be held in Tolka Park if at least one team from the Republic of Ireland was involved. If the final was played between two teams from Northern Ireland, the final would be held at Windsor Park.

Qualification

League of Ireland

Shelbourne qualified by winning the 2004 League of Ireland Premier Division title. Longford Town qualified by winning the 2004 FAI Cup Final. Cork City took the third spot by finishing second in the 2004 League of Ireland Premier Division.

Irish League

Linfield qualified by winning the 2003–04 Irish Premier League. Glentoran qualified by winning the 2003–04 Irish Cup. The third spot went to Portadown for finishing second in the 2003–04 Irish Premier League. Following a draw (in which league winners were kept apart), the teams were placed as follows;

  • Group 1; Linfield, Longford Town, Glentoran
  • Group 2; Shelbourne, Portadown, Cork City

Group stage

Group 1

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Ulster Banner.svg Linfield (A) 4 3 0 1 9 6 +3 9 Advanced to final
2 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Longford Town 4 2 0 2 4 4 0 6
3 File:Ulster Banner.svg Glentoran 4 1 0 3 6 9 −3 3
Source: [citation needed]
(A) Advance to a further round
Glentoran2 – 1Longford Town
Halliday File:Soccerball shade.svg 48'
Parkhouse File:Soccerball shade.svg 65'		 (Report) Keegan File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'
Longford Town2 – 1Linfield
Paisley File:Soccerball shade.svg 6'
Myler File:Soccerball shade.svg 45'		 (Report) McAreavey File:Soccerball shade.svg 86'
Linfield3 – 2Glentoran
Larmour File:Soccerball shade.svg 11'
King File:Soccerball shade.svg 35'
Simpson o.g. File:Soccerball shade.svg 58'		 (Report) Halliday File:Soccerball shade.svg 47'
Melaugh File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'
Longford Town1 – 0Glentoran
Paisley File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'
Paisley File:Red card.svg 89'		 (Report)
Linfield1 – 0Longford Town
Thompson File:Soccerball shade.svg 26'
McCann File:Red card.svg 82'		 (Report)
Glentoran2 – 4Linfield
Lockhart File:Soccerball shade.svg 62'
Holmes File:Soccerball shade.svg 72'		 (Report) McAreavey File:Soccerball shade.svg 5'
Murphy File:Soccerball shade.svg 28'
Ferguson File:Soccerball shade.svg 43'
Mouncey File:Soccerball shade.svg 54'
Referee: File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ian Stokes

Group 2

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Shelbourne (A) 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7 Advanced to final
2 File:Ulster Banner.svg Portadown 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 5
3 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Cork City 4 1 1 2 2 3 −1 4
Source: [citation needed]
(A) Advance to a further round
Shelbourne3 – 3Portadown
Baker File:Soccerball shade.svg 40', File:Soccerball shade.svg 67'
Byrne File:Soccerball shade.svg 44'		 (Report) Hamilton File:Soccerball shade.svg 49', File:Soccerball shade.svg 59'
Boyle File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'
Cork City1 – 0Shelbourne
Behan File:Soccerball shade.svg 59'
Gamble File:Red card.svg 85'		 (Report) Crawley File:Red card.svg 90'
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: File:Ulster Banner.svg David Malcolm
Portadown1 – 1Cork City
Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 77' (Report) Doyle File:Soccerball shade.svg 64'
Portadown0 – 1Shelbourne
Feeney File:Red card.svg 53' (Report) Byrne File:Soccerball shade.svg 4'
Shelbourne1 – 0Cork City
Harris File:Soccerball shade.svg 52' (Report)
Referee: File:Ulster Banner.svg Mark Courtney
Cork City0 – 1Portadown
McNulty File:Red card.svg (Report) Hamilton File:Soccerball shade.svg 30'
Hamilton File:Red card.svg
Referee: File:Flag of Ireland.svg John Feighery

Final

Shelbourne0 – 2Linfield
Byrne File:Red card.svg 90+'
Moore File:Red card.svg 90+'		 (Report) Ferguson File:Soccerball shade.svg 26'
Thompson File:Soccerball shade.svg 37'
Referee: File:Ulster Banner.svg Mark Courtney
 Winner of 2005 Setanta Sports Cup 
File:Ulster Banner.svg Linfield
1st title

Goalscorers

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

References

  1. ↑ "All-Ireland Cross-Border Cup Competitions". RSSSF.

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