2004 League of Ireland Premier Division

League of Ireland Premier Division 2004 Shelbourne (12th title) Dublin City UEFA Champions League Shelbourne UEFA Cup Cork CityLongford Town UEFA Intertoto Cup Bohemians Setanta Sports Cup ShelbourneCork CityLongford Town Jason Byrne: 25(Shelbourne)https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iertops.html Ireland - List of Topscorers 6 July 2016 live RSSSF https://web.archive.org/web/20120406093820/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/iertops.html 6 April 2012 2003 2005 The 2004 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 20th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division was made up of 10 teams. Shelbourne were champions while Cork City finished as runners-up. Both clubs also enjoyed respectable runs in Europe. Overview The season began on 19 March and ended on 22 November. Each team played four rounds of games, totalling 36 games each. The 2005 season would see the League of Ireland Premier Division revert to 12 twelve teams. To facilitate this expansion there was no promotion/relegation play-off this season and only one team, Dublin City, were automatically relegated. At the end of October, Drogheda United and Bohemians were all but out of the title race. Drogheda United and Bohemians were twelve points and eight points behind leaders Shelbourne respectively. Shelbourne had not quite sealed the title yet, though, as Cork City had reached second place and were just four points behind with four games remaining. On 5 November it looked like the Cork City's league challenge might have been over after they could only draw at home to Derry City. If Shelbourne had beaten Longford Town the following day they would be nine points clear with Cork City having just three games remaining. Longford won 4–1. Both Cork City and Shelbourne won their remaining games before the final round of matches. This meant that Cork City were three points behind Shelbourne. Cork had to win and Shelbourne lose for the title to go the Cork instead of Shelbourne. It turned out that neither result went the way Cork wanted as both they and Shelbourne drew. This meant that Shelbourne retained the league title and Cork City would have to be satisfied with second place.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ier04.html Ireland 2004 RSSSF 16 July 2016https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ierhist.html (Republic of) Ireland League Tables 6 July 2016 live RSSSF https://web.archive.org/web/20080221000146/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ierhist.html 21 February 2008 Final table main WDL QR SHE Shelbourne COR Cork City BOH Bohemians DRO Drogheda United WAT Waterford United LON Longford Town DER Derry City StP St Patrick's Athletic SHM Shamrock Rovers DUB Dublin City 19 11 6 57 37 C 18 11 7 52 32 15 15 6 51 30 15 7 14 45 43 14 8 14 44 49 11 13 12 32 34 11 11 14 23 32 11 9 16 38 49 10 8 18 41 47 6 7 23 39 69 R green1 Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round CL1Q blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round UC1Q #ccccff Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round IC1 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round UCC1Q Longford Town qualified for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round after winning the 2004 FAI Cup Final. red1 Relegation to League of Ireland First Division REL complete Graham Alex Football in the Republic of Ireland a Statistical Record 1921–2005 Soccer Books Limited 1-86223-135-4https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ierhist.html (Republic of) Ireland League Tables RSSSF 6 July 2016https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ier04.html Ireland 2004 RSSSF 16 July 2016 5 Results Matches 1–18 main FBR BOH COR DER DRO DUB LON SHM SHE StP WAT Shelbourne 2–2 0–0 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 Cork City 0–2 0–1 0–0 2–3 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 Bohemians 1–1 2–3 0–1 2–2 0–0 3–0 3–1 2–2 2–4 Drogheda United 2–2 2–0 0–3 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 Waterford United 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 3–1 2–1 Longford Town 0–2 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–3 1–0 0–0 Derry City 0–2 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 St Patrick's Athletic 1–2 0–2 0–2 0–2 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 3–1 Shamrock Rovers 3–0 2–1 2–1 1–2 4–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 Dublin City 1–3 0–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–4 complete Matches 19–36 main FBR BOH COR DER DRO DUB LON SHM SHE StP WAT Shelbourne 0–0 1–1 0–2 2–1 3–1 0–2 3–1 1–1 4–1 Cork City 0–1 1–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 Bohemians 2–0 1–0 0–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 2–2 3–2 4–0 Drogheda United 2–5 1–3 0–3 1–2 0–1 4–0 0–2 3–0 2–1 Waterford United 3–1 1–4 1–1 1–3 0–1 1–0 0–2 2–0 3–2 Longford Town 4–1 1–2 0–1 3–1 1–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 Derry City 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–3 St Patrick's Athletic 0–0 0–3 1–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–2 Shamrock Rovers 1–4 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–0 0–0 3–1 1–3 Dublin City 2–3 0–1 0–0 2–3 1–3 2–1 0–2 1–2 1–2 complete UEFA coefficient The League of Ireland Premier Division performances in Europe this season meant that the league received a coefficient of 1.333 added to their overall coefficient which now accumulated to 4.164. This gave them a ranking 38th place as shown. 36. Iceland Iceland 37. Macedonia FYR Macedonia 38. Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland 39. Belarus Belarus 40. Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Source:http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/crank2005.html UEFA Country Ranking 2005 www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert Top-scorers PlayerClubGoals Ireland Jason Byrne Shelbourne25 Ireland Glen Crowe Bohemians19 Ireland Declan O'Brien Drogheda United14 Ireland Daryl Murphy Waterford United14 Ireland Kevin Doyle Cork City13 Source: Awards PFAI eircom League Player of the Year Jason Byrne - Shelbourne PFAI eircom League Young Player of the Year Daryl Murphy - Waterford United See also 2004 Shelbourne F.C. season 2004 League of Ireland First Division 2004 League of Ireland Cup References Ireland Category:League of Ireland Premier Division seasons