2000–01 Dundalk F.C. season
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| season = 2000–01
| manager = Martin Murray
| league = First Division
| league result = 1st (winners)
| cup1 = FAI Cup
| cup1 result = Second Round
| cup2 = League Cup
| cup2 result = Group (DNQ)
| cup5 = Leinster Senior Cup
| cup5 result = Competition abandoned
| league topscorer =
Martin Reilly (20)
| season topscorer =
Martin Reilly (21)
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Dundalk entered the 2000–01 League of Ireland First Division season having finished fourth the previous season, thus missing out on a promotion/relegation play-off. Manager Martin Murray was entering his first season in charge, having replaced Terry Eviston during the summer. It was Dundalk's second season in the second tier of Irish football, and their 75th consecutive season in the League of Ireland.
Season summary
Following the financial difficulties of the mid- and late-1990s, and relegation for the first time at the end of the 1998–99 season, the club had been taken over by the Dundalk F.C. Co-operative in March 2000,{{Cite news |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2000%2F03%2F25&id=Ar00601&sk=3A46DA10 |title=Historic day as Co-Operative takes over Dundalk |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=25 March 2000 |access-date=8 May 2019 |via=Irish Newspaper Archives}} returning it to a supporter-owned, membership-based company model. The previous season there had been expectations of an immediate return to the top-flight, but a poor start left them struggling to catch the leaders and, with a play-off spot seemingly secured, the club became embroiled in a losing battle with the league's hierarchy and Kilkenny City. The row, over Kilkenny playing an improperly registered player, reached the High Court, who sided with Kilkenny thus handing them the play-off spot.{{Cite news |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2000%2F05%2F06&id=Ar02203&sk=BF5DB417 |title=Carter saga ends with Cats getting the cream |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=6 May 2000 |access-date=8 May 2019 |via=Irish Newspaper Archives}}
Relegation in 1999 had resulted in a large turnover of players – 31 different players making League appearances in the 1999–2000 season alone. With new ownership, and a new manager, there was more of the same. A number of local players had been retained from the previous season's squad, but another ten players were signed before and during the season, so that 21 players in total would make league starts. The previous season's disappointment, and the number of players coming and going, meant that hopes were low going into the new season.{{cite news |title=No clues available in tie with Crusaders |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2000%2F07%2F29&id=Ar02604&sk=809139D6 |accessdate=10 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=29 July 2000}} The 36-match schedule got under way on 11 August 2000, and Dundalk had a promising start, leading by the end of the month.{{cite news |title=Murray's men continue to make the early running |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2000%2F09%2F02&id=Ar02803&sk=AF987873 |accessdate=10 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=2 September 2000}} But a slump in form saw them risk losing touch with fellow pace-setters, Athlone Town, obliging Murray to bring more players in.{{cite news |title=Murray moves to strengthen panel |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2000%2F10%2F14&id=Ar02803&sk=EBD481AA |accessdate=10 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=14 October 2000}} A victory over Athlone in November, and a five-game winning streak, kept the gap to four points as the other sides fell away.{{cite news |title=Connolly comes in with another clean sheet |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2001%2F01%2F20&id=Ar02207&sk=8A7FEC3D |accessdate=10 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=20 January 2001}}
The season was nearly derailed, however, when the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak lead to an exclusion zone being put in place around County Louth.{{cite news |last1=Devlin |first1=Martina |title=Operation Ringfence |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=IND%2F2001%2F03%2F23&id=Ar00102&sk=73B494DA |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=Irish Independent |date=23 March 2001}} Many public events were postponed or cancelled, and Dundalk went the whole of March without playing a match. They had beaten Shelbourne in the first round of the Leinster Senior Cup, but the crisis saw the competition ultimately abandoned for the season, and it would be 2010 before it was revived.{{cite web |last1=Feery |first1=Niall |title=Leinster Senior Cup makes a return |url=https://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/junior-senior/leinster-senior-cup-makes-a-return-27933913.html |website=www.herald.ie |accessdate=11 December 2019}} In the second round of the FAI Cup they had been drawn against non-league Malahide United, and the game had been postponed four times as the crisis wore on. At the fifth attempt, the match was played behind closed doors at a neutral venue, and Dundalk were knocked out in the first match they had played in over five weeks.{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Philip |title=Brilliant Bruen |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=IND%2F2001%2F04%2F02&id=Ar03002&sk=28CE1B90 |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=Irish Independent |date=2 April 2001}} Two heavy league defeats followed as they struggled to get back up to speed, with home matches having to be played in United Park in Drogheda. But four consecutive wins, including a 2–1 victory over Athlone in the first match played in Oriel Park in over two months,{{cite news |title=This was the vital one |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2001%2F05%2F05&id=Ar02800&sk=AA4ADEAD |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=5 May 2001}} meant Dundalk had won the First Division title (their first), and secured promotion back to the Premier Division for 2001–02 with a game to spare.{{cite news |title=Captain Crawley bridges 37-year gap |url=https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=DDT%2F2001%2F05%2F12&id=Ar02402&sk=88A3D9BF |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=Dundalk Democrat |date=12 May 2001}}
=First-Team Squad (2000–01)=
| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;" |
| scope=col style="width:4%;"|No.
! scope=col style="width:12%;"|Name ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|Years ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|League ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|FAI Cup ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|League Cup ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|Leinster Cup ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|Total ! scope=col style="width:7%;"|Goals |
|---|
| 1
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} John Connolly | 1999–2003 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| 2
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} {{sortname|David|Crawley|David Crawley (footballer)}} | 1997–2002 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 4 |
| 3
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Padraig Gollogley | 1997–2001 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| 4
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} {{sortname|Aaron|Callaghan|Aaron Callaghan (footballer, born 1966)}} | 2000–2002 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 1 |
| 5
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} Liam Dunne | 2000–2002 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
| 6
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|ENG}} Ian Hill | 2000–2001 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 7
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} John Flanagan | 1999–2008 | 34 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 8 |
| 8
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} David Hoey | 1995–2006 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
| 9
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Martin Reilly | 2000–2003 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 21 |
| 10
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Greg O'Dowd | 2000–2001 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 5 |
| 11
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} David Ward | 1997–2004 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 11 |
| 12
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Brian McKenna | 2000–2001 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| 13
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Donal Broughan | 2000–2003 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 |
| 14
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Tommy Byrne | 2000–2001 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| 15
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} John Whyte | 1999–2003 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 16
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} {{sortname|Brian|Morrisroe}} | 1999–2001 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| 17
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Eoin Mullen | 2000–2001 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 18
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRE}} Anto Reilly | 1999–2001 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 7 |
| 19
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} {{sortname|John|Ryan|John Ryan (footballer, born 1968)}} | 2000–2001 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| 20
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} Paddy Quinn | 1998–2001 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 21
! scope=row|{{Flagicon|IRL}} Padraig Staunton | 1999–2001 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Competitions
=League Cup=
;Group
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|date = 25 September 2000
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|score = 1–2
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Did not qualify
=Leinster Senior Cup=
;First Round
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Competition subsequently abandoned
=FAI Cup=
;First Round
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;Second Round
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| date= 1 April 2001
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| score= 0–1
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| team2= Malahide United
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|location = Dublin
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=First Division=
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|round = Round 1
|date = 11 August 2000
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|score = 1–1
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|round = Round 2
|date = 16 August 2000
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|score = 2–0
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|round = Round 3
|date = 18 August 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 0–3
|report =
|team1 = Drogheda United
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|round = Round 4
|date = 26 August 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 2–0
|report =
|team2 = Monaghan United
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|round = Round 5
|date = 31 August 2000
|time =
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|score = 1–0
|report =
|team2 = Waterford United
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|round = Round 6
|date = 5 September 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 2–1
|report =
|team1 = Sligo Rovers
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|result = L
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|round = Round 7
|date = 9 September 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 3–1
|report =
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|result = W
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|round = Round 8
|date = 17 September 2000
|time =
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|score = 1–1
|report =
|team1 = Athlone Town
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|round = Round 9
|date = 30 September 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 2–2
|report =
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|round = Round 10
|date = 5 October 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 1–1
|report =
|team2 = Limerick
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|result = D
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|round = Round 11
|date = 13 October 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 2–6
|report =
|team1 = St Francis
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|result = W
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|round = Round 12
|date = 19 October 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 1–0
|report =
|team2 = Drogheda United
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|round = Round 13
|date = 29 October 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–1
|report =
|team1 = Monaghan United
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|round = Round 14
|date = 3 November 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–1
|report =
|team1 = Waterford United
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|result = D
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|round = Round 15
|date = 9 November 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 3–1
|report =
|team2 = Sligo Rovers
|goals1 =
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|stadium =
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|referee =
|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 16
|date = 18 November 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 2–1
|report =
|team1 = Home Farm
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|referee =
|result = L
}}
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|round = Round 17
|date = 23 November 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 3–0
|report =
|team2 = Athlone Town
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|result = W
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|round = Round 18
|date = 3 December 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 3–2
|report =
|team1 = Cobh Ramblers
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|referee =
|result = L
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|round = Round 19
|date = 14 December 2000
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 7–0
|report =
|team2 = St Francis
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|referee =
|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 20
|date = 22 December 2000
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 0–3
|report =
|team1 = Drogheda United
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|stadium =
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|referee =
|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 21
|date = 13 January 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 1–0
|report =
|team2 = Waterford United
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|stadium =
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|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 22
|date = 20 January 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–1
|report =
|team1 = Sligo Rovers
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|referee =
|result = D
}}
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|round = Round 23
|date = 25 January 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 0–1
|report =
|team2 = Home Farm
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|stadium =
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|referee =
|result = L
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|round = Round 24
|date = 31 January 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 1–0
|report =
|team2 = Monaghan United
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|result = W
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|round = Round 25
|date = 9 February 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–2
|report =
|team1 = Athlone Town
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|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 26
|date = 15 February 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 0–0
|report =
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|round = Round 27
|date = 18 February 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 3–2
|report =
|team2 = Cobh Ramblers
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|result = W
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|round = Round 28
|date = 23 February 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–1
|report =
|team1 = St Francis
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|result = D
}}
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|round = Round 29
|date = 8 April 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 0–4
|report =
|team1 = Monaghan United
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|result = L
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|round = Round 30
|date = 10 April 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–2
|report =
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|result = W
}}
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|round = Round 31
|date = 14 April 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 2–5
|report =
|team2 = Sligo Rovers
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|result = L
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|round = Round 32
|date = 21 April 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–2
|report =
|team1 = Home Farm
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|result = W
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|round = Round 33
|date = 24 April 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 0–2
|report =
|team1 = Limerick
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|result = W
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|round = Round 34
|date = 28 April 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 2–1
|report =
|team2 = Athlone Town
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|round = Round 35
|date = 1 May 2001
|time =
|team1 = Dundalk
|score = 1–0
|report =
|team2 = Drogheda United
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|result = W
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|round = Round 36
|date = 6 May 2001
|time =
|team2 = Dundalk
|score = 1–0
|report =
|team1 = Cobh Ramblers
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|result = L
}}
==League table==
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|Pos | Club | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Notes |
| bgcolor=#00FF00
|1 | Dundalk F.C. | 36 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 65 | 38 | +27 | 69 | Promoted to Premier Division |
| bgcolor=#00FF00
|2 | Monaghan United F.C. | 36 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 59 | 40 | +19 | 65 | Promoted to Premier Division |
| bgcolor=#FFFF00
|3 | Athlone Town A.F.C. | 36 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 53 | 37 | +16 | 64 | Lost promotion/relegation play-off |
| 4 | Sligo Rovers F.C. | 36 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 61 | 48 | +13 | 62 | |
| 5 | Waterford United F.C. | 36 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 56 | 30 | +26 | 61 | |
| 6 | Limerick F.C. | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 50 | |
| 7 | Home Farm Fingal F.C. | 36 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 43 | 58| | |||
| 15 | 43 | |||||||||
| 8 | Cobh Ramblers F.C. | 36 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 43 | 60| | |||
| 17 | 36 | |||||||||
| 9 | Drogheda United F.C. | 36 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 27 | 62| | |||
| 35 | 21 | |||||||||
| 10 | Fingal–St. Francis F.C. | 36 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 29 | 64| | |||
| 35 | 20 |
Source:[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ierhist.html www.rsssf.com]
References
;Bibliography
- {{cite book |first1=Jim |last1=Murphy |title=The History of Dundalk F.C.: The First 100 Years |publisher=Dundalgan Press |year=2003 |asin=B0042SO3R2 }}
- {{cite book |last=Graham|first=Alex|title=Football in the Republic of Ireland a Statistical Record 1921–2005|publisher=Soccer Books Limited|isbn=1-86223-135-4}}
;Citations
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