Worst LoI Games in Europe

**Réiteoir** · 30/04/2009, 7:39 PM

So - we've had the best - now, on the flip side what about the worst?

Dishonourable mentions to:

Bohs vs. Levadia Tallinn - the 3-1 loss at Dalymount that had a big bearing on Kenny going.

Finn Harps 0-12 Derby County in 1977

Longford losing 5-1 to Carmarthen in a quite bizarre match in Newtown, Wales in the 2005 UEFA Cup. A match I was at in person...

St Pats and the 10-0 defeat to the Moldovan Coal Miners

Shels going out meekly to the Maltese Ice Cream Sellers in 2002 - maybe they thought they were playing the other Hibernian?

A case maybe for Derry going out to Pyunik of Armenia in 07-08?

(Although I fully expect mypost to drag himself in here and post his usual incorrect rubbish about Vaduz beating Longford being a shock result that should never have happened, etc. etc. etc.)

**Rovers Maniac** · 30/04/2009, 7:45 PM

Pats for me a proper shocker closely followed by the Longford result in Wales.

**Dodge** · 30/04/2009, 8:19 PM

Worst individual result in my time was Rovers losing 7-0 in one leg v some Polish crowd

Our Moldovan disaster being the wost over 2 legs (closely followed by Longfor v the Wesh I'd imagine). At least the Moldovans were pros...

**oriel** · 30/04/2009, 8:57 PM

We had some awful euro nights also, but most of these were against very big clubs in the old 32 team euro cup, but hammerings all the same 0-10 away to Liverpool in 1968 was one.

I think other clubs had very poor results, Longfords in Wales was a pure disaster, actually embarrassing, drogs losing 6-0 + 8-0 to Spurs in 83, and a side that always puzzled me why they never went further in europe was the great Rovers 4-in-a-row side from 1984 -87. Def one of the best quality Irish teams I have seen but never really achieved that much in Europe.

**adamcarr** · 30/04/2009, 9:44 PM

Haka 4-0 Cork City was a shocking result last season.

**Patrick Dunne** · 30/04/2009, 10:51 PM

Galway United lost 7-0 on aggregate to Lyngby (Denmark)

**El-Pietro** · 30/04/2009, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by adamcarr

Haka 4-0 Cork City was a shocking result last season.

worst night of my life following city

never going to forgive alan mathews for that

**L.T.F.C.** · 30/04/2009, 11:30 PM

Longford losing 5-1 crushed me. we had a brilliant side for a rural team and we were two nil up from the first leg.

**sonofstan** · 01/05/2009, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

worst night of my life following city

never going to forgive alan mathews for that

Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.

Longford losing 5-1 crushed me. we had a brilliant side for a rural team and we were two nil up from the first leg.
01/05/2009 12:10 AM

And the common factor is........

**Olander** · 01/05/2009, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.

Longford losing 5-1 crushed me. we had a brilliant side for a rural team and we were two nil up from the first leg.

90% of your squad was based in dublin, you trained in dublin and did most of your business in dublin, ye were hardly a rural club...

**KR's Post** · 01/05/2009, 8:11 AM

Bray losin 4-0 in both legs to Grasshopper Zurich! John walsh saved a pen in the first leg away, a good point.... Stephane chapusait played for them at that stage. Match for 2nd leg was actually played in the carlisle!

**SunderlandBohs** · 01/05/2009, 8:42 AM

Drogheda's two defeats to Spurs in the UEFA Cup. 7-0 and 8-0 I think? The Levida match in Dalymount was the worse I witness as a Bohs fan. Also Odense 5-0 Pat's. I remember watching this in Bulgaria and the so-called Irish football fans loving the fact that an LOI side was getting a thumping. I think that got my back up more so than the defeat.

**L37Ultra** · 01/05/2009, 8:48 AM

Originally Posted by sonofstan

And the common factor is........

Alan Matthews

**Straightstory** · 01/05/2009, 9:44 AM

Originally Posted by SunderlandBohs

Drogheda's two defeats to Spurs in the UEFA Cup. 7-0 and 8-0 I think? The Levida match in Dalymount was the worse I witness as a Bohs fan. Also Odense 5-0 Pat's. I remember watching this in Bulgaria and the so-called Irish football fans loving the fact that an LOI side was getting a thumping. I think that got my back up more so than the defeat.

What fans? The Irish national team fans? They're even worse than I thought so. Wan*ers.
At least Spurs were Spurs - and went on to win the tournament (it was 6-0 and 8-0 against Drogheda). Longford's defeat 5-1 defeat to a Welsh team of part-timers is worse.

**dfx-** · 01/05/2009, 9:46 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Worst individual result in my time was Rovers losing 7-0 in one leg v some Polish crowd

Gornik Zabrze.

Although it did lead Odra Wodzislawa down the path of over-confidence

**gspain** · 01/05/2009, 9:47 AM

Longford losing in Wales to me.

Pats v Zimbru was a strange game - I thought Pats were going to hammer them in the first 15 minutes but were humiliated in the end.

Derby 12 Harps 0

Waterford losing to Omonia Nicosia in 1972 when Cypriot teams were really bad. They lost 13-0 on aggregate in the next round to Bayern.

Shels losing to Hibs of Malta.

Shels abject defeats to Akranes 3-0 home and away

**gspain** · 01/05/2009, 9:48 AM

Originally Posted by dfx-

Gornik Zabrze.

Although it did lead Odra Wodzislawa down the path of over-confidence

Ray Treacy reckoned he'd seen the winners of the UEFA cup. They were hit for 5 in Austria in the next round.

**The Lilywhites** · 01/05/2009, 9:51 AM

Dundalk v Varteks (0-9 on agg) in 2002 would be up there but we were a First Division side and they were after knocking Aston Villa out the previous year, so it was expected.

**GuisaSaigon** · 01/05/2009, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Patrick Dunne

Galway United lost 7-0 on aggregate to Lyngby (Denmark)

We only lost 4-2 on aggregate to Lyngby in 1985/86 Cup Winners Cup, it was Odense who beat us 7-0 in the 1991/92 Cup Winners Cup .

**seand** · 01/05/2009, 10:28 AM

It's one thing losing 8 or 10 or even 12-0 to one of the best teams in Europe, it's quite another losing out to Maltese opposition.

A decent Shels side losing to Hibs Malta was the worst for me, Zimbru is another obvious candidate.

In terms of most disappointing performances though 2 of the 4 great teams of the last 40 years- Rovers 4-in-a-row and Waterford 66-73- under performed in Europe.