2022 FAI Cup

[pateen]

Looking forward to this Sunday. Will they break the 30 k mark?

[Martinho II]

Looking forward to this Sunday. Will they break the 30 k mark?

Surely to god it will be achieved pateen. First final for Shels in 11 years. First final for Derry City in 8 years. There would have to be a huge interest in it.

[ger121]

Announced over 25,000 ticket sold a few days ago. Forecast for Sunday is Partially Cloudy and 16c. That will help with neutrals on the day. Should get over 30,000 really.

[pateen]

It's great going from the 10 to 15k we were only getting back in the late noughties

[EatYerGreens]

It's great going from the 10 to 15k we were only getting back in the late noughties

It turns out that Jonathan Gaby was right after all. The LOI IS cool.

[2 Year Contract]

It turns out that Jonathan Gaby was right after all. The LOI IS cool.

Forgot all about him! Your post made me think about what his reaction to the rise in crowds would be today. I’d imagine it’d go something like this https://youtu.be/VnTpl93q3Bc

[ger121]

Over 30,000 tickets sold now. Quite impressed.

[ontheotherhand]

That's great going. 50 50 split so far? I heard 15k for Derry so I assume it's close to that.

[brendy_éire]

More of a weighting to Derry than 50/50. Heard a figure of 20k Derry tickets on the radio, but that may be overtsating it.
In fairness, I've never seen this sort of excitment around final before. The city is buzzing, flags out everywhere, schools doing jersey days and all.

Certainly seems like there'll be a greater Derry support than the total attendance in our last final (17k in 2014).

[Martinho II]

More of a weighting to Derry than 50/50. Heard a figure of 20k Derry tickets on the radio, but that may be overtsating it.
In fairness, I've never seen this sort of excitment around final before. The city is buzzing, flags out everywhere, schools doing jersey days and all.

Certainly seems like there'll be a greater Derry support than the total attendance in our last final (17k in 2014).

Yeah was watchin BBC NI news earlier and they mentioned Derry City in their sports news. Seems huge buzz in the Maiden City!

[EatYerGreens]

That's great going. 50 50 split so far? I heard 15k for Derry so I assume it's close to that.

If Derry have sold 15k out of 30k tickets then that's more than a 50-50 weighting - as there will be a few thousand neutrals at it too.

Hugely impressive if it is over 30,000 now. It seems the FAI's price hike hasn't deterred many people after all.

[DCWA]

Fantastic scenes in Derry tonight pre cup final, I am sure you will all see on social media. Really is a buzz around the place and speculation we aren’t far off 20,000 which I expect is slightly exaggerated but I have no doubt our ticket sales are fantastic and the best post treble season.

I wonder what a Derry- Rovers final either would have hit this season or may hit in the next few years - will be best possible chance of an aviva sell out you’d expect.

[oriel]

I`m looking forward to the final myself, a stress-free day now that we don't need to be hoping for Derry to win, and can enjoy the roast beef with a nice glass of red! Memories of our traditional pre-match cup final dinners in Jurys in 2015-16-17-18 +19, missed out in 2020 (Covid).

Good luck to both teams, it's a special day for the fans, nice family occasion too, we always took the kids, I`m going for a 2-1 win for Derry, which will obviously be music for Pats ears, but Shels won't make it easy for Derry.

Hopefully it will be a good game.

[Dermobohs]

To both sets of fans, enjoy the day , big deal and biggest day in the calendar, hope it’s a good game of ball, from what I’ve seen of both v us it’ll be a cracker. Have a feeling there will be cards and defo a red ( mr Boyd?) goals songs laughs and please don’t let us be talkin about the attention seekin referee after it .

[oriel]

Fantastic scenes in Derry tonight pre cup final, I am sure you will all see on social media. Really is a buzz around the place and speculation we aren’t far off 20,000 which I expect is slightly exaggerated but I have no doubt our ticket sales are fantastic and the best post treble season.

I wonder what a Derry- Rovers final either would have hit this season or may hit in the next few years - will be best possible chance of an aviva sell out you’d expect.

I wouldn't think so, Rovers v Bohs would probably be the best chance of a highest ever attendance at a modern FAI Cup Final, but that said no way would it sell 50k.

Bohs v Pats last year was the record at the Aviva at 37k, before that it was Rovers v Sligo with 36k in 2010, then the Dundalk v Cork 4 in a row finals with an avg of 26k. Would Derry v Rovers draw more than 2019 final of Rovers v Dundalk (33k), not sure.

Rovers v Bohs in 1945 still the record I think at 41k, and in 1985 lowest I could find with 7k at Rovers v Galway.

[Buller]

Got my ticket! Last bit of live football for me for the year The attendances since Aviva opened have been amazing. Think that Rovers v Galway match in '85 was a replay? or even a 2nd replay? 7k is grim enough though - glad they did away with them.

Atmosphere at last years with 37k was incredible, felt full for it. Cup final is really turning back into the spectacle it should be.

[TonyD]

Got my ticket! Last bit of live football for me for the year The attendances since Aviva opened have been amazing. Think that Rovers v Galway match in '85 was a replay? or even a 2nd replay? 7k is grim enough though - glad they did away with them.

Atmosphere at last years with 37k was incredible, felt full for it. Cup final is really turning back into the spectacle it should be.

Last year certainly was incredible. Really felt like a proper big occasion. Never thought I’d see the day with that sort of attendance at a Pats match. The increase in crowds since the pandemic has been one of the best news stories I can remember about the league. Long may it continue.

Hoping for a Derry win, obviously. Just spotted that on RTE 2 before the match they are showing a documentary made in 1975 about Shels, originally prodcast on the run up to that years cup final. Should be worth a watch.

[oriel]

Got my ticket! Last bit of live football for me for the year The attendances since Aviva opened have been amazing. Think that Rovers v Galway match in '85 was a replay? or even a 2nd replay? 7k is grim enough though - glad they did away with them.

Atmosphere at last years with 37k was incredible, felt full for it. Cup final is really turning back into the spectacle it should be.

1983–84 UCD 0 – 0 / 2 – 1 (R) Shamrock Rovers Dalymount Park / Tolka Park 8,000 / 6,500
1984–85 Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Galway United Dalymount Park 7,000
1985–86 Shamrock Rovers 2 – 0 Waterford United Dalymount Park 11,500
1986–87 Shamrock Rovers 3 – 0 Dundalk Dalymount Park 8,569
1987–88 Dundalk 1 – 0 Derry City Dalymount Park 21,000
1988–89 Derry City 0 – 0 / 1 – 0 (R) Cork City Dalymount Park / Dalymount Park 20,000 / 12,000

No the Galway game wasn't a replay, you're prob thinking of the UCD one, above is the list of the last 6 finals played in Dalymount before the switch to Lansdowne, 3 more moved back to Dalymount in the 90's for some reason, then Tolka early 00's, then even RDS and one in Tallaght before perm move to Aviva in 2010.

The mid 80's crowds were just brutal, a lot league games in the 10's would have beaten those. Derry in 88 + 89 put a bit of respectability back to it.

[2 Year Contract]

Pre match crowd troubles again this year. Not sure who the aggressors were today but stuff like this and the Bohs fans carry on pre match last year will surely prevent a sell out ever happening at the cup final in the future if it continues every year. Once a reputation for this crap is obtained it’s very hard to get rid of and will put off potential neutrals from heading in to the match no doubt

https://twitter.com/dubslife1/status...ZraduOG7oORzAQ

[joey B]

Apparently the Guard’s had a big part to play in it,walked the Shels fans down past the Derry fans,not making excuses but apparently it could have been avoided….