2007 Setanta Sports Cup

2007 Setanta Sports Cup

Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland
Teams	8
Defending champions	Drogheda United
Final positions
Champions	Drogheda United (2nd title)
Runner-up	Linfield
Tournament statistics
Matches played	27
Goals scored	67 (2.48 per match)
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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. Linfield	6	3	3	0	8	5	+3	12
2. Drogheda Utd	6	3	2	1	5	2	+3	11
3. Derry City	6	1	2	3	6	8	-2	5
4. Glentoran	6	1	1	4	4	8	-4	4

2007-02-26

Drogheda United	0 – 1	Linfield
	(Report)	O'Kane 29'

United Park, Drogheda

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2007-02-26

Glentoran	0 – 1	Derry City
	(Report)	McHugh 85'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 2,728

Referee: Alan Black

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2007-03-05

Linfield	1 – 1	Glentoran
Stewart 21' Gault  90+'	(Report)	Hill 31' Neill  90+'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Referee: Ian Stokes

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2007-03-12

Derry City	0 – 0	Drogheda United
	(Report)

Brandywell, Derry

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2007-03-19

Glentoran	0 – 1	Drogheda United
	(Report)	O'Keeffe 48'

The Oval, Belfast

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2007-03-20

Linfield	2 – 1	Derry City
Dickson 20' Kearney 45 pen' Lindsay  79'	(Report)	Farren 14'

Windsor Park, Belfast

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2007-03-26

Derry City	2 – 2	Linfield
Beckett 35' McCourt 60'	(Report)	O'Kane 74' Dickson 85'

Brandywell, Derry

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2007-03-26

Drogheda United	2 – 0	Glentoran
O'Keeffe 30' Grant 45'	(Report)	Hill  35'

United Park, Drogheda

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2007-04-02

Derry City	1 – 2	Glentoran
Brennan 16'	(Report)	McMenamin 54' McDonagh 87'

Brandywell, Derry

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2007-04-02

Linfield	0 – 0	Drogheda United
	(Report)

Windsor Park, Belfast

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2007-04-17

Drogheda United	2 – 1	Derry City
Grant 69' Zayed 90+'	(Report)	Deery 45'

United Park, Drogheda

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2007-04-17

Glentoran	1 – 2	Linfield
Neill 42 pen'	(Report)	Stewart 7' Thompson 55'

The Oval, Belfast

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1. St Patrick's Athletic	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	16
2. Cork City	6	3	1	2	14	5	+9	10
3. Dungannon Swifts	6	0	4	2	6	12	-6	4
4. Portadown	6	0	2	4	3	20	-17	2

2007-02-26

Dungannon Swifts	0 – 0	Cork City
	(Report)

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

Referee: Frankie Hiles

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2007-02-26

St Patrick's Athletic	3 – 0	Portadown
Ndo 41' Kirby 47', 53'	(Report)

Richmond Park, Dublin

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2007-03-05

Portadown	2 – 2	Dungannon Swifts
Collins 68' McCutcheon 70'	(Report)	McCluskey 21' Gallagher 90+3'

Shamrock Park, Portadown

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2007-03-12

Cork City	1 – 3	St Patrick's Athletic
O'Flynn 85'	(Report)	O'Neill 32', 90+2 pen' Kirby 50'

Turners Cross, Cork

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2007-03-19

Dungannon Swifts	2 – 2	St Patrick's Athletic
McAllister 4' Everaldo 34'	(Report)	Kirby 19' Fahey 49'

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

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2007-03-20

Cork City	4 – 0	Portadown
O'Donovan 46', 76' Lordan 60' Lally 90'	(Report)

Turners Cross, Cork

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2007-03-26

Portadown	0 – 7	Cork City
	(Report)	Behan 15', 82' O'Flynn 18' Gamble 32' O'Donovan 44', 66', 87'

Shamrock Park, Portadown

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2007-03-26

St Patrick's Athletic	5 – 0	Dungannon Swifts
Murphy 29' Quigley 37' O'Connor 46' Kirby 57' Brennan 61'	(Report)

Richmond Park, Dublin

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2007-04-02

Dungannon Swifts	1 – 1	Portadown
McAree 37'	(Report)	Collins 80'

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

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2007-04-02

St Patrick's Athletic	1 – 0	Cork City
Maguire 27'	(Report)

Richmond Park, Dublin

Referee: Mark Courtney

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2007-04-16

Cork City	2 – 1	Dungannon Swifts
O'Brien 4' Behan 35'	(Report)	McCabe 64' Wells  81'

Turners Cross, Cork

Referee: Declan Hanney

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2007-04-16

Portadown	0 – 3	St Patrick's Athletic
	(Report)	Lynch 52' O'Connor 62', 71'

Shamrock Park, Portadown

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.

23 April 2007
20:05 IST

St. Patrick's Athletic	0 – 1 (AET)	Drogheda United
	(Report)	Zayed 112'

Richmond Park, Dublin

Attendance: 2,735

Referee: Adrian McCourt

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30 April 2007
20:05 IST

Linfield	1 – 0	Cork City
O'Kane 85'	(Report)

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 2,647

Referee: Ian Stokes

Final

Main article: Setanta Sports Cup Final 2007

12 May 2007
17:00 IST

Linfield	1 – 1 (AET)	Drogheda United
McAreavey 67'	(Report)	Lynch 56' Grant 77'
Penalties
Ervin Mouncey Ferguson Dickson O'Kane	3 – 4	Lynch Grant Bradley Robinson Byrne

Windsor Park, Belfast

Referee: Adrian McCourt

Winner of 2007 Setanta Sports Cup
Drogheda United 2nd Title

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Alan Kirby (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Roy O'Donovan (Cork City)

3 goals

• Denis Behan (Cork City)
• Tony Grant (Drogheda United)
• Sean O'Connor (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Aidan O'Kane (Linfield)

2 goals

• Michael Collins (Portadown)
• Mark Dickson (Linfield)
• John O'Flynn (Cork City)
• Aidan O'Keeffe (Drogheda United)
• Gary O'Neill (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Thomas Stewart (Linfield)
• Éamon Zayed (Drogheda United)

1 goal

• Gary Beckett (Derry City)
• Killian Brennan (Derry City)
• Stephen Brennan (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Kevin Deery (Derry City)
• Everaldo (Dungannon Swifts)
• Keith Fahey (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Mark Farren (Derry City)
• JP Gallagher (Dungannon Swifts)
• Joe Gamble (Cork City)
• Jason Hill (Glentoran)
• Oran Kearney (Linfield)
• Roy Lally (Cork City)
• Cillian Lordan (Cork City)
• Eamonn Lynch (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Darragh Maguire (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Mark McAllister (Dungannon Swifts)
• Paul McAreavey (Linfield)
• Rodney McAree (Dungannon Swifts)
• Shane McCabe (Dungannon Swifts)
• Ryan McCluskey (Dungannon Swifts)
• Paddy McCourt (Derry City)
• Gary McCutcheon (Portadown)
• Willo McDonagh (Glentoran)
• Kevin McHugh (Derry City)
• BJ McMenamin (Glentoran)
• Anthony Murphy (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Joseph Ndo (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Kyle Neill (Glentoran)
• Colin O'Brien (Cork City)
• Mark Quigley (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Peter Thompson (Linfield)

External links

• Official Setanta Cup Site