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2007 Setanta Sports Cup
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | Setanta Sports Cup |
| year | 2007 |
| country | Northern Ireland |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| num_teams | 8 |
| defending champions | Drogheda United |
| champions | Drogheda United (2nd title) |
| runner-up | Linfield |
| matches | 27 |
| goals | 67 |
| prevseason | 2006 |
| nextseason | 2008 |
Republic of Ireland | runner-up = Linfield
The 2007 Setanta Sports Cup was the 3rd staging of the Setanta Sports Cup, a cross-border cup competition that took place between football clubs from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The final was played at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 May 2007, and was won by Drogheda United with a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over Linfield when the scores were level at 1–1 after extra time. Drogheda won the trophy for the second successive year.
Shelbourne's withdrawal
The draw for the 2007 Setanta Cup competition was made on 7 December 2006 with the original competing teams being the identical ones to the previous year's competition. On 30 January 2007, however, Shelbourne announced that they were withdrawing from the competition for reasons relating to their financial troubles and the fact that they would be unlikely to field a team of players. Their place was given to the 2006 FAI Cup runners-up to Derry City, St Patrick's Athletic, despite the fact that the next best-placed in the previous season's league (Shelbourne's qualification route), who did not have a place in the Setanta Cup already, were Sligo Rovers.
Group stage
:The draw for this round was held 7 December 2006. The matches were played 26 February-17 April 2007.
Teams that progressed to the Semi-Finals are indicated in bold type.
Teams eliminated from the Setanta Cup are indicated in italics.
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. NIR Linfield | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 12 |
| 2. IRL Drogheda Utd | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 11 |
| 3. IRL Derry City | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 5 |
| 4. NIR Glentoran | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 4 |
Gault Neill
Kearney
Lindsay
McCourt Dickson
Grant
McDonagh
Zayed
Thompson
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. IRL St Patrick's Athletic | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | +14 | 16 |
| 2. IRL Cork City | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 10 |
| 3. NIR Dungannon Swifts | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 4 |
| 4. NIR Portadown | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 20 | -17 | 2 |
Kirby ,
McCutcheon Gallagher
Kirby
Everaldo Fahey
Lordan
Lally
O'Flynn
Gamble
O'Donovan , ,
Quigley
O'Connor
Kirby
Brennan
Behan Wells
O'Connor ,
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was made by drawing the winners of Group A against the runners-up of Group B and vice versa, with group winners having home advantage. There would be no replays if the matches were drawn; instead, extra time would decide winners immediately thereafter. If extra time did not decide the winners, a set of five alternating penalty kicks would decide winners.
20:05 IST
20:05 IST
Final
Main article: Setanta Sports Cup Final 2007
17:00 IST Grant Mouncey Ferguson Dickson O'Kane Grant Bradley Robinson Byrne }}
| Winner of 2007 Setanta Sports Cup |
|---|
| IRL Drogheda United |
| 2nd Title |
Goalscorers
;5 goals
- IRL Alan Kirby (St Patrick's Athletic)
- IRL Roy O'Donovan (Cork City)
;3 goals
- IRL Denis Behan (Cork City)
- IRL Tony Grant (Drogheda United)
- IRL Sean O'Connor (St Patrick's Athletic)
- NIR Aidan O'Kane (Linfield)
;2 goals
- NIR Michael Collins (Portadown)
- NIR Mark Dickson (Linfield)
- IRL John O'Flynn (Cork City)
- IRL Aidan O'Keeffe (Drogheda United)
- IRL Gary O'Neill (St Patrick's Athletic)
- NIR Thomas Stewart (Linfield)
- LBY Éamon Zayed (Drogheda United)
;1 goal
- IRL Gary Beckett (Derry City)
- IRL Killian Brennan (Derry City)
- IRL Stephen Brennan (St Patrick's Athletic)
- IRL Kevin Deery (Derry City)
- BRA Everaldo (Dungannon Swifts)
- IRL Keith Fahey (St Patrick's Athletic)
- IRL Mark Farren (Derry City)
- NIR JP Gallagher (Dungannon Swifts)
- IRL Joe Gamble (Cork City)
- NIR Jason Hill (Glentoran)
- NIR Oran Kearney (Linfield)
- IRL Roy Lally (Cork City)
- IRL Cillian Lordan (Cork City)
- IRL Eamonn Lynch (St Patrick's Athletic)
- IRL Darragh Maguire (St Patrick's Athletic)
- NIR Mark McAllister (Dungannon Swifts)
- NIR Paul McAreavey (Linfield)
- NIR Rodney McAree (Dungannon Swifts)
- NIR Shane McCabe (Dungannon Swifts)
- NIR Ryan McCluskey (Dungannon Swifts)
- NIR Paddy McCourt (Derry City)
- SCO Gary McCutcheon (Portadown)
- IRL Willo McDonagh (Glentoran)
- IRL Kevin McHugh (Derry City)
- NIR BJ McMenamin (Glentoran)
- IRL Anthony Murphy (St Patrick's Athletic)
- CMR Joseph Ndo (St Patrick's Athletic)
- NIR Kyle Neill (Glentoran)
- IRL Colin O'Brien (Cork City)
- IRL Mark Quigley (St Patrick's Athletic)
- NIR Peter Thompson (Linfield)
References
References
- McCreevy, Alex. (13 May 2007). "Vilmunen the hero". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
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