Worst LoI Games in Europe

[Réiteoir]

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]

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

[Dodge]

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]

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]

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

[Patrick Dunne]

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

[El-Pietro]

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.]

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]

worst night of my life following city

never going to forgive alan mathews for that


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]

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]

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]

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]

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


Alan Matthews :D

[Straightstory]

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-]

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:cool:

[gspain]

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]

Gornik Zabrze.

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

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Patrick Dunne]

Thanks, Saigon. Our greatest European result is only loosing 4-2 !

[SunderlandBohs]

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.
Well maybe fans was the wrong word. Just a couple of loud mouth Irish lads on the ****.

Shels v Bronby in Denmark was another one. More so for the way Shels played. Just went out to kick Bronby off the park.

[SunderlandBohs]

Norrkoping 5-0 Bohs and Ferencvasos (sp) 5-0 Bohs dispite a good draw at home.

[L.T.F.C.]

And the common factor is........
5 cup finals in 5 years? he must be a useless manager!

[L.T.F.C.]

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...

trained on longford most of the time.what do you mean by "did most of your business in dublin"

[spongebob]

The worst result for me was getting stuffed 4-0 by Cardiff City after a 0-0 at home.

[Martinho II]

trained on longford most of the time.what do you mean by "did most of your business in dublin"


its true for the majority of the years in the top flight town were training in celbridge.. its only over the last two seasons that they stopped training in dublin...

[L.T.F.C.]

its true for the majority of the years in the top flight town were training in celbridge.. its only over the last two seasons that they stopped training in dublin...

i know they used to train in dublin as well as longford. once a week in longford, once a week in dublin. i oft watch them train in longford.

[bennocelt]

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.

yeah hate those muppets that support the national team:mad:

i actually think that Odense team were a handy enough team - didnt they get to the last 8?

i think Longford losing to that Welsh team is the worst
and Shels to that maltese team

[Partizan]

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

Yes that would be right. I wasnt around at the time but appently for the home leg in Kilcohan we were all over them and the Cypriots hardly got out of their half.

Some day hopefully we'll exact revent on Omonia.

[Partizan]

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.

You have to remember that the last tme we played in the European Cup, it really was that. We got to the last 16 in 1971 where we played Celtic but also Man Yoo in Lansdowne Road in front of 55,000+ in 1968 against Law, Charlton, Best and Stiles. A noticeable blooper along the way like Omonia. however we did redeem ourselves afterwards in the UEFA Cup against Gothenburg 79-80 (managed by Sven Goran Eriksson), CWC against Dynamo Tblisi 80-81 who went on to win it that year and Bordeaux in 86-87 who had among them Joel Bats, Alan Giresse, Jean Tigana and Luis Fernandez while we had Mick Bennett and 43 year old Al Finuane in our lineup.

Since then we havent played in Europe. :o

[ps bohs]

Rovers going out to Linfield in 84 was a big set back for the league

[CuanaD]

Pat's 10:0 agg loss was the one I remember as making me embarrassed to support the league. But, it seemed to embarrass the league teams into action aswell - i dont really think any LOI team has let themselves be outclassed like that since