Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in the history of football in the Republic of Ireland, having won 21 League of Ireland titles and 25 FAI Cups. [1]
They have also won the League of Ireland Shield on 18 occasions and the League of Ireland Cup once. [2] Shamrock Rovers have supplied more players to the Republic of Ireland national football team (64) than any other single club. This list comprises the major honours won by Shamrock Rovers and the records set by the players and managers of the club.
[3] Complete list of honours
Shamrock Rovers have a long history in European competition. [4] They were the first League of Ireland side to enter European competition, [5] and featured regularly in the 1960s and 1980s. The club has had some relative success with victories in the Intertoto-Cup and the Europa League. [6] [7] Throughout their participation Rovers have beaten teams from Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland and Germany, and were the first Irish club to beat teams from Turkey, Poland, Israel, Serbia Slovakia, Albania and Hungary. Their first victory in the UEFA Champions League came in a 1–0 victory in the 2011–12 qualifying phase against FC Flora Tallinn at Tallaght Stadium .
Their biggest win was a 7–0 aggregate victory (3–0 away, 4–0 home) over Fram Reykjavik in the UEFA Cup first round in September 1982, which remains a record for League of Ireland clubs in European competition. [8]
On 25 August 2011, they became the first Irish team to qualify for the UEFA Europa League group stage when they defeated Partizan Belgrade 2–1 after extra-time in Serbia, for a 3–2 aggregate victory. [9]
Rovers qualified for the group stages of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League [10]
Some of their more notable European performances include:
Correct as of August 2023
Competition | P | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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European Cup / UEFA Champions League | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 43 |
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | 46 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 46 | 80 |
UEFA Europa Conference League | 12 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
European Cup Winners' Cup / UEFA Cup Winners Cup | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 27 |
UEFA Intertoto Cup | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
TOTAL | 108 | 26 | 20 | 62 | 95 | 181 |
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At the end of the 2022 season the club's overall League record is:
Played: | Won: | Drew: | Lost: | GF: | GA: | Points: |
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2604 | 1294 | 630 | 680 | 4791 | 3055 | 3717 |
Padraig Amond scored Rovers 4000th League goal on 14 September 2007 in a 4–0 win over Galway United. [14]
Shamrock Rovers Football Club is an Irish professional football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club's senior team competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division and it is the most successful club in the Republic of Ireland. The club has won the League of Ireland title a record 21 times and the FAI Cup a record 25 times. Shamrock Rovers have supplied more players to the Republic of Ireland national football team (64) than any other club. In All-Ireland competitions, such as the Intercity Cup, they hold the record for winning the most titles, having won seven cups overall.
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Ronan Finn is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League of Ireland First Division side UCD, where he is also club captain. Across a playing career spanning nearly 20 years, he has turned out for UCD, Sporting Fingal, Dundalk and Shamrock Rovers. Having made over 50 appearances in European competition, Finn competed in the group stages of the Europa League with both Shamrock Rovers (2011) and Dundalk (2016).
Shamrock Rovers Football Club is a football club from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Founded in Ringsend, a southside, inner suburb of Dublin, the club's date of foundation is uncertain and disputed. Between 1926 and 1987 the club played at Glenmalure Park, Milltown. Shamrock Rovers F.C. is Ireland's most successful football club having won the League of Ireland a record 21 times, including four times in a row in the 1980s and again in 2020s, along with the FAI Cup a record 25 times, including six times in a row in the 1960s. It was also the first Irish club to participate in a European competition, playing in the European Cup in 1957. Shamrock Rovers was also one of the European club teams that spent the 1967 season in the United States to found the United Soccer Association, representing Boston as the Boston Rovers.
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David Webster is an Irish professional footballer for League of Ireland Premier Division club Drogheda United. He has previously played for Bray Wanderers, Shamrock Rovers, Waterford, St Patrick's Athletic and Finn Harps.
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