2007–08 Irish League Cup

Irish League Cup CIS Insurance Cup 2007–08 Northern Ireland 16 Linfield (9th win) Crusaders 55 182 2006–07 2008–09 The 2007–08 Irish League Cup (known as the CIS Insurance Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 2 February 2008 with the final. Glentoran were the defending champions after their sixth League Cup win last season; a 1–0 victory over Cliftonville in the previous final. This season Glentoran went out at the semi-final stage to Crusaders, who were then defeated 3–2 by Linfield in the final. This was a record ninth League Cup win for Linfield, and would be their last one for 11 years until they won the 2019 final. This was also the tenth time in eleven years that the cup had been won by one of Belfast's Big Two.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcuphist.html Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF 9 January 2013https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcup08.html Northern Ireland League Cup 2007/08 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF 9 January 2013 The 16 clubs taking part were divided into four groups of four clubs. The clubs in each group played each other at home and away. The top two clubs from each group then advanced to the quarter-finals where they played a single knock-out tie against another quarter-finalist. The semi-finals were played in the same format with the two winners of the ties advancing to the single match final. Group stage Group A main WDL n LIN Linfield DUN Dungannon Swifts GLA Glenavon BYM Ballymena United 5 1 0 13 2 A 3 1 2 7 6 A 1 1 4 8 13 1 1 4 7 14 #ccffcc A A Advanced to quarter-finals y noflag FBR grey 0–1 3–3 0–3 1–0 2–1 0–1 1–3 3–2 0–1 5–1 1–1 2–0 complete rsssf.com Group B main WDL n GLT Glentoran LIS Lisburn Distillery LRN Larne ARM Armagh City 6 0 0 19 6 A 3 1 2 9 8 A 1 1 4 11 13 1 0 5 5 17 #ccffcc A A Advanced to quarter-finals y noflag FBR grey 0–2 3–2 1–3 6–0 3–2 3–1 3–1 2–3 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 complete rsssf.com Group C main WDL n CLI Cliftonville CRU Crusaders DGC Donegal Celtic LIM Limavady United 4 2 0 12 5 A 3 1 2 11 12 A 1 2 3 9 11 1 1 4 10 14 #ccffcc A A Advanced to quarter-finals y noflag FBR grey 1–0 2–2 2–0 1–4 0–0 1–0 0–1 3–4 3–2 2–2 4–5 2–1 complete rsssf.com Group D main WDL n POR Portadown NEW Newry City COL Coleraine INS Institute 5 1 0 12 6 A 4 1 1 8 5 A 0 2 4 7 11 0 2 4 6 11 #ccffcc A A Advanced to quarter-finals y noflag FBR grey 1–1 1–2 2–3 2–2 1–3 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–3 2–1 2–1 0–0 complete rsssf.com Quarter-finals Cliftonville 3–3 (5–6 p) Newry City Glentoran 1–0 Dungannon Swifts Linfield 5–1 Lisburn Distillery Portadown 3–4 Crusaders Semi-finals Crusaders 1–0 Glentoran Linfield 1–1 (4–3 p) Newry City Final 2 February 2008 Crusaders 2 – 3 Report Linfield Rainey 54Brown 77 Thompson 46Ferguson 86 89 Windsor Park, Belfast References Category:Irish League Cup seasons League Cup