20 Teams, 2 Divisions, 1 National League

**sbgawa** · 04/12/2025, 3:52 PM

Originally Posted by Buckett

"Miles off the First Division" is a public park!

That made me laugh

**culloty82** · 05/12/2025, 9:35 AM

Apparently, an official announcement is to be made by the FAI this morning, and certainly Carew Limerick United are heavily flagging their expectations of getting the green light.

**EatYerGreens** · 05/12/2025, 5:22 PM

Originally Posted by culloty82

Apparently, an official announcement is to be made by the FAI this morning, and certainly Carew Limerick United are heavily flagging their expectations of getting the green light.

Anything ?

**Nesta99** · 05/12/2025, 6:02 PM

Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

Anything ?

Did ye miss the apparently bit....apparently should have started every post in this thread!

**Roones26** · 05/12/2025, 6:56 PM

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F5FaMAiyo/

This is what it is in reference to

**Buckett** · 05/12/2025, 7:42 PM

So, Carew Park have taken over Limerick FC? Hard to imagine them getting much support from other areas

**legendz** · 06/12/2025, 7:12 AM

Originally Posted by Burnsie

Mark Scanlon (on last night's episode LOI Central) says that the third tier won't be part of the League of Ireland, but will be run instead by Fran Gavin and the Competitions department within the FAI. Added that there would be an announcement this month. Didn't add much else of note.

"If you want to put it into that context, the Premier League is 1 entity. The EFL is the next entity that runs the next three tiers down below that. And after that you have the National League, but they're all different entities."
"I think this is the start of the creation of a proper football pyramid within Irish football"

It is positive that he was indicating that the Third Tier is the start. The Cork MSL is a Munster Central League. The Dublin commuter belt LSL is a Leinster Central League.
Taking Munster for example - if district leagues will be reluctant to integrate with MSL, possibly a Munster West League and a Munster East League in parallel will be the approach to take. Similarly in Leinster with a Leinster North League and a Leinster South League.
The indication anyway, which isn't surprising, is that different tiers will be run by different entities - be that national, provincial/regional and district level.