Drogheda United will have home advantage in the semi-finals of the Setanta Sports Cup. Going into the final match of Group 1, the reigning champions Drogheda had to score more than their Eircom rivals Cork City to be assured of first position – and with it the luxury of a home draw at the next stage. Click to continue reading...

The UEFA league coefficient is used to rank the leagues of Europe and the purpose of these rankings is to act as a way of determining the number of clubs from each league that will participate in the the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. The ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next. Click to continue reading...

The two clubs face off in the first qualifying round of the 2008-2009 UEFA Cup. The first leg will be played on July, 17 2008 and the second leg on July 31, 2008.

JFK Olimps Rīga finished 8th in Latvia's LMT Virslīga, but because the club made the Latvian Cup final it earned a place in the UEFA cup. Click to continue reading...

Its hard to believe that we are top of the league for the first time in five years. As the fourth official put up his board to show four minutes of injury time on Tuesday night some people were chanting it. I couldn't. Me and Jimmy who was standing beside me looked away. Pats threw [...] Click to continue reading...

Onside magazine is a new publication focusing on Irish football. Its a steal at €4 for 57 pages of full colour quality coverage of the Eircom League of Ireland and the international team. Its available from ELOI club shops, Easons and some other newsagents. Click to continue reading...

Linfield FC defeated Glentoran FC by a score of 3 - 1 in Belfast and Derry City held St. Patrick's Athletic scoreless in their 2 - 0 victory in Ireland's Setanta Sports Cup action.

The Setanta Sports Cup pits four teams from the Republic of Ireland' s FAI eircom League of Ireland and four teams from Northern Ireland's Irish Premier League. Click to continue reading...

Kev is going to be doing a full report on the events of Friday night, incorporating Thursday night's display making. This is good as I realy don't want to write about what I had to witness on Friday night. Suffice to say that only four players turned up on the night. Super Keeper Murphy who was [...] Click to continue reading...

It's Friday again thank Hunt! Tonight sees the first Dublin Derby of the season as we take on our less fortunate city cousins St. Patrick's Athletic. This has often been described as Dublin's friendliest derby. Granted there isn't the vitriolic hatred that exists between us and Rovers or the extreme distaste that we have for [. Click to continue reading...