League of Ireland Archives

I'm currently going through Galway Rovers/United history in the League of Ireland.

Does anyone have a resource for finding old League of Ireland results? I've used RSSSF, Soccerway, Soccerbot and Extratime.ie for all their results. I now have every result from the League and Cup, however I do need to confirm dates on a lot of games.

Also I'm missing League Cup results from 7 seasons.

85/86 (Galway United won the LC that year)
86/87
92/93
93/94
95/96
96/97
and
98/99

Also would I be right in thinking that the League Cup wasn't played in the 2002/03 shortened season?

I'm doing the same for UCD - I've found the best is to get a subscription to IrishNewsArchives and check each Monday's paper. I've gone back to 1938 so far and have most of our results and scorers noted that way (that's LoI, LoI B and LSL).

Yeah, no League Cup in the short year.

Yeah - that's my plan alright.

I just want to have as much information around the matches put together before going to the archives.

From what I've found I'm pretty sure our 1500th competitive match will take place early this season, if it didn't already happen.

I found the search function is fairly good too, so if you search "Galway League Cup" roughly when you know the games were on (August, say), then the results should pop up.

I think getting info together before searching will only end up being duplicate work.

It'll take you a while to trawl through, but the Irish Times Digital Archive will have results and match reports. It might not cover all the games, but it should give you some. I never find the Irish Digital News Archives as useful but it's another option, especially for local papers (The Tribune is on it afaik). Do you have a deadline? I'm sure the local Galway papers and city library will have their own archives (hardcopy or microfilm) that you can access once lockdown is over.

No deadline - just my own project.

I'm going to be adding line-ups so I will need access to the archives for the local papers.

Thanks for the advice all.

Between the Times and the Indo (the latter is on INA), you should get most line-ups (I think I've 7 incomplete line-ups from UCD's senior history).

I don't think you'd need local papers to fill in the gaps. Connacht Tribune is on INA if needed though.

Making fairly good progress - down to just 3 League Cup campaigns to complete and that's all the results.

Could someone just confirm the 93/94 League Cup was a knockout from the start? I was us losing 2-1 at Sligo in the first round (14th August 93) but the season before and season after both had group stages.

I have those seasons recorded the same - 92/93 Group, 93/94 Knockout, 94/95 Group.

Which 3 LC campaigns are you missing now?

I from using the archive I used my local library and used Irish newspaper archive. I used Longford News and Longford Leader. When librarys open Julian the business library should have hardcopies of local newspapers from the last 30 years as thats how I got my info from!

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Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

I'm currently going through Galway Rovers/United history in the League of Ireland.

Does anyone have a resource for finding old League of Ireland results? I've used RSSSF, Soccerway, Soccerbot and Extratime.ie for all their results. I now have every result from the League and Cup, however I do need to confirm dates on a lot of games.

Also I'm missing League Cup results from 7 seasons.

85/86 (Galway United won the LC that year)
86/87
92/93
93/94
95/96
96/97
and
98/99

Also would I be right in thinking that the League Cup wasn't played in the 2002/03 shortened season?

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Yeah, I have the dates. Here you go!

1985/86	08-Sep-85	Limerick City	1	3	Galway United
1985/86	15-Sep-85	Galway United	6	0	Cobh Ramblers
1985/86	29-Sep-85	Waterford United	0	3	Galway United
1985/86	06-Oct-85	Galway United	3	2	Newcastle United
1985/86	13-Oct-85	Cork City	0	0	Galway United
1985/86	28-Oct-85	Galway United	1	1	Sligo Rovers
1985/86	27-Nov-85	Galway United	3	2	Home Farm
1985/86	15-Jan-86	Galway United	2	0	Dundalk
1986/87	07-Sep-86	Derry City	0	2	Galway United
1986/87	14-Sep-86	Galway United	3	0	Shelbourne
1986/87	28-Sep-86	Galway United	1	0	Bohemians
1986/87	05-Oct-86	Athlone Town	2	2	Galway United
1986/87	12-Oct-86	Galway United	5	0	Home Farm
1986/87	27-Oct-86	Shamrock Rovers	3	2	Galway United
1992/93	16-Aug-92	Galway United	0	0	Limerick
1992/93	19-Aug-92	Galway United	1	1	Castlebar Celtic
1992/93	23-Aug-92	Longford Town	2	0	Galway United
1993/94	15-Aug-93	Sligo Rovers	2	1	Galway United
1995/96	12-Aug-95	Athlone Town	1	1	Galway United
1995/96	16-Aug-95	Straide & Foxford United	0	2	Galway United
1995/96	19-Aug-95	Galway United	3	4	Limerick
1996/97	16-Aug-96	Galway United	0	2	Athlone Town
1996/97	21-Aug-96	Galway United	2	0	UCG
1996/97	24-Aug-96	Limerick	1	2	Galway United
1996/97	17-Sep-96	Galway United	3	2	Derry City
1996/97	22-Oct-96	Galway United	1	0	Athlone Town
1996/97	17-Dec-96	Galway United	3	1	Cork City
1996/97	01-Jan-97	Cork City	1	1	Galway United
1998/99	15-Aug-98	Limerick	0	1	Galway United
1998/99	18-Aug-98	Galway United	1	1	Mervue United
1998/99	21-Aug-98	Galway United	3	2	Athlone Town
1998/99	15-Sep-98	Shelbourne	1	2	Galway United
1998/99	11-Nov-98	Shamrock Rovers	1	0	Galway United

Moved on a fair bit with this - now I'm filling in opposition goalscorers against us...

Need some help for 77/78 season

26th December 1977 - a player called 'Davis' scored for Athlone against us

5th March 1978 - a player called 'Logan' scored for Finn Harps

Would anyone have the first name of these players?

Joe Logan is the Harps player I’d imagine…

Probably Eugene Davis?

Later of UCD but spent most of his career at Athlone.

Popularly known as 'Pooch' as I recall...

It was Eugene Davis.

Just a few more - I'll no doubt be able to find the names by further research but it may be quicker getting a reply on here...

31/1/79 'Junior' Murphy scored for Cork Alberts against Galway - I'm guessing 'Junior' wasn't really his name

30/12/79 a player called 'Cleary' scored for Shels against Galway

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Just a few more - I'll no doubt be able to find the names by further research but it may be quicker getting a reply on here...

31/1/79 'Junior' Murphy scored for Cork Alberts against Galway - I'm guessing 'Junior' wasn't really his name

30/12/79 a player called 'Cleary' scored for Shels against Galway

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Cleary wonder is that John Cleary that would later play for Dundalk and was player manager for us in mid 90s?

Shels' Fact & Figures booket has a John Cleary listed from 79/80-80/81, and a separate John M Cleary for 80/81.

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Shels' Fact & Figures booket has a John Cleary listed from 79/80-80/81, and a separate John M Cleary for 80/81.

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I've just come across a report from December 1980 and Shels had a centre half John Cleary (Snr.) and midfielder John Cleary (Jnr.)

Going by the two profiles it looks like it was John Cleary Senior who scored against us (Jnr hadn't joined at that stage) but John Cleary Junior is the one who went on to play for Dundalk and Galway (Extratime doesn't list Longford as a former club of his but I think this is the same guy Marty)

https://www.extratime.com/player/111...hn_cleary-snr/

https://www.extratime.com/player/11132249/player/