League of Ireland in Europe

[littlebray]

A 100% losing record against Liechtensteiner opposition does not make pretty reading!

100% losses also against both Czech Republic & Czechoslovakia, Greece, Moldova & USSR (as well as Liechtenstein).
And if you want to look at it year by year, 100% losses in 1957/8, 58/9, 60/1, 61/2, 73/4, 83/4, 86/7 & 89/90. But never again since then!

[pineapple stu]

The record against Slovakian opposition is down as 0-1-3-5-9. But the only tie I can see is Pat's v Slovan, which ended 5-3 on aggregate, with Slovan winning home and away.

So that leaves a tie where the LoI side drew one game and lost the other, losing 4-2 on aggregate. I can't see this anywhere though. There's only one tie against Slovakian opposition on the Irish page of rsssf.com, and also on the Slovak page on rsssf.com either (which is admittedly 20 years out of date). Any ideas?

[Dodge]

Sligo lost to Spartak Trnava in 2012

1-1 away in 1st leg
1-3 home in 2nd leg

[pineapple stu]

Thanks. Doesn't ring any particular bell to be honest!

[seand]

Bit of a milestone for Dundalk this time around, the home leg is our 50th match in Europe.

[TheBoss]

Stats now updated to include this years results.

[seand]

I was looking at some Euro results recently and I notice that Derry's record for the biggest away win by any European team in Scotland (5-1 v Gretna, 2005-06) fell in 2013 in doubly League of Ireland linked fashion.
After scraping past Drogheda in the first qualifying round of the 2013-14 Europa League Malmo played Hibernian and beat them 7-0 at Easter Road and 9-0 on aggregate. The Hibs manager was one Patrick Fenlon.

[seand]

Also, in terms of records I *think* Harps hold the record for half time deficit in European competition. They were 9-0 down against Derby at halftime, but 'only' lost 12-0. Don't think any other club has scored 9 in the first half of any Euro game.


One more European record that Irish clubs contribute to.... Liverpool are hte only club to have hit double figures more than once in Europe. They did it three times against Stromsgodset (NOR), Oulu (FIN) and Dundalk.

[nigel-harps1954]

Didn't think I'd be coming onto a thread regarding League of Ireland in Europe and see Finn Harps mentioned..

[seand]

And another Irish record in Europe has just fallen.... Aberdeen travelled a couple of hundred kilometres further to Kairat in Kazakhstan this week than Pats did to Karagandy. It's only a matter of time before an Iceland v Kazakhstan tie though to blow that out of the water!

[jinxy lilywhite]

And another Irish record in Europe has just fallen.... Aberdeen travelled a couple of hundred kilometres further to Kairat in Kazakhstan this week than Pats did to Karagandy. It's only a matter of time before an Iceland v Kazakhstan tie though to blow that out of the water!

Haven't checked it out but is it not shorter if they flew over the artic circle

[bennocelt]

And another Irish record in Europe has just fallen.... Aberdeen travelled a couple of hundred kilometres further to Kairat in Kazakhstan this week than Pats did to Karagandy. It's only a matter of time before an Iceland v Kazakhstan tie though to blow that out of the water!

Was wondering about that alright, but its up on the UEFA site so it must be true

[geysir]

An Iceland club Breidablik (the equivalent of Home Farm) did play in the 3rd round of EL 2013 against Aktobe (4,700 km distance) which is on the western border of Kazakhstan, about Km1,500 closer than Kairat in the east. It took them 3 1/2 days of travel each way and they lost out on penalties. The moral of the story is if you draw a Kazakh team you had better beat them otherwise the grief is huge and multi causal.


I read in that BBC article that Aberdeen chartered a 44 seater flight for GBP 200,000

[pineapple stu]

Good article on UEFA.com about the longest away trips in European history - includes a look at the potential longest trip - they reckon it's if Cayenne from French Guyana (in France) met Luch-Energia Vladivostok.

[TheBoss]

I have just updated the stats to include the 2016 season.