2005 Setanta Cup

Setanta Cup 2005 Northern IrelandRepublic of Ireland 6 Linfield (1st title) Shelbourne 13 33 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.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/alliercuphist.html All-Ireland Cross-Border Cup Competitions RSSSF 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 main WDL Q Group 1 y LIN NIR Linfield LON IRL Longford Town GLE NIR Glentoran 3 0 1 9 6 A 2 0 2 4 4 1 0 3 6 9 #ccffcc Advanced to final A complete 2005-03-15 Glentoran 2 – 1 (Report) Longford Town Halliday 48 Parkhouse 65 Keegan 83 The Oval, Belfast 2005-04-04 Longford Town 2 – 1 (Report) Linfield Paisley 6 Myler 45 McAreavey 86 Flancare Park, Longford 2005-04-19 Linfield 3 – 2 (Report) Glentoran Larmour 11 King 35 Simpson o.g. 58 Halliday 47 Melaugh 85 Windsor Park, Belfast 2005-04-25 Longford Town 1 – 0 (Report) Glentoran Paisley 88 Paisley 0 89 Flancare Park, Longford 2005-05-10 Linfield 1 – 0 (Report) Longford Town Thompson 26 McCann 0 82 Windsor Park, Belfast 2005-05-16 Glentoran 2 – 4 (Report) Linfield Lockhart 62 Holmes 72 McAreavey 5 Murphy 28 Ferguson 43 Mouncey 54 The Oval, Belfast IRL Ian Stokes Group 2 main WDL Q Group 2 y SHE IRL Shelbourne POR NIR Portadown COR IRL Cork City 2 1 1 5 4 A 1 2 1 5 5 1 1 2 2 3 #ccffcc Advanced to final A complete 2005-03-22 Shelbourne 3 – 3 (Report) Portadown Baker 40, 67 Byrne 44 Hamilton 49, 59 Boyle 83 Tolka Park, Dublin 2005-03-28 Cork City 1 – 0 (Report) Shelbourne Behan 59 Gamble 0 85 Crawley 0 90 Turners Cross, Cork 4,000 NIR David Malcolm 2005-04-11 Portadown 1 – 1 (Report) Cork City Kelly 77 Doyle 64 Shamrock Park, Portadown 2005-04-25 Portadown 0 – 1 (Report) Shelbourne Feeney 0 53 Byrne 4 Shamrock Park, Portadown 2005-05-02 Shelbourne 1 – 0 (Report) Cork City Harris 52 Tolka Park, Dublin NIR Mark Courtney 2005-05-16 Cork City 0 – 1 (Report) Portadown McNulty 0 Hamilton 30 Hamilton 0 Turners Cross, Cork IRL John Feighery Final 2005-05-21 Shelbourne 0 – 2 (Report) Linfield Byrne 0 90+ Moore 0 90+ Ferguson 26 Thompson 37 Tolka Park, Dublin NIR Mark Courtney Winner of 2005 Setanta Sports Cup NIR Linfield 1st Goalscorers 3 goals NIR Gary Hamilton (Portadown) 2 goals IRL Richie Baker (Shelbourne) IRL Jason Byrne (Shelbourne) NIR Glenn Ferguson (Linfield) NIR Michael Halliday (Glentoran) NIR Paul McAreavey (Linfield) IRL Stephen Paisley (Longford Town) NIR Peter Thompson (Linfield) 1 goal IRL Denis Behan (Cork City) NIR Wesley Boyle (Portadown) IRL Kevin Doyle (Cork City) WAL Jamie Harris (Shelbourne) NIR Shaun Holmes (Glentoran) IRL Paul Keegan (Longford Town) NIR Darren Kelly (Portadown) NIR Stuart King (Linfield) NIR Davy Larmour (Linfield) NIR Darren Lockhart (Glentoran) NIR Gavin Melaugh (Glentoran) NIR Tim Mouncey (Linfield) NIR William Murphy (Linfield) IRL Andy Myler (Longford Town) NIR Stephen Parkhouse (Glentoran) 1 own goal NIR Philip Simpson (Glentoran) References External links Official Setanta Cup Site 2005 1 Category:2004–05 in Northern Ireland association football cups