2006 Setanta Sports Cup

The 2006 Setanta Sports Cup was the 2nd staging of the Setanta Sports Cup, a cross-border cup competition that takes place between football clubs from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The final was played at Tolka Park in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 22 April 2006, where Drogheda United beat Cork City to win the competition for the first time.

2006 Setanta Sports Cup

Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland
Teams	8
Defending champions	Linfield
Final positions
Champions	Drogheda United (1st title)
Runners-up	Cork City
Tournament statistics
Matches played	27
Goals scored	59 (2.19 per match)
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Group stage

The draw for this round was held 12 December 2005. The matches were played 20 February 2006 – 3 April 2006.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cork City (A)	6	5	1	0	11	2	+9	16	Advanced to the semi-finals
2	Drogheda Utd (A)	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10
3	Dungannon Swifts	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4
4	Portadown	6	0	3	3	4	11	−7	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(A) Advance to a further round

2006-02-20

Drogheda United	1 – 0	Dungannon Swifts
Leech 43'	(Report)

United Park, Drogheda

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2006-02-20

Portadown	1 – 1	Cork City
Kelly 45'	(Report)	O'Flynn 21'

Shamrock Park, Portadown

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2006-02-27

Cork City	2 – 0	Drogheda United
Behan 58' Gavin o.g. 80'	(Report)	Bradley  76' Fahey  77'

Turners Cross, Cork

Referee: Alan Kelly

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2006-02-27

Dungannon Swifts	1 – 1	Portadown
McAree 85 pen'	(Report)	Convery 23'

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

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2006-03-06

Cork City	2 – 0	Dungannon Swifts
O'Flynn 39' O'Callaghan 47' O'Donovan  28'	(Report)

Turners Cross, Cork

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2006-03-06

Portadown	0 – 0	Drogheda United
	(Report)

Shamrock Park, Portadown

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2006-03-14

Drogheda United	4 – 0	Portadown
Keegan 7' Barrett 9' O'Brien 33', 55'	(Report)	Neill  69'

United Park, Drogheda

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2006-03-14

Dungannon Swifts	0 – 1	Cork City
	(Report)	Behan 52'

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

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2006-03-21

Cork City	3 – 1	Portadown
Woods 2' Behan 70' O'Callaghan 90'	(Report)	Quinn 72'

Turners Cross, Cork

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2006-03-21

Dungannon Swifts	1 – 2	Drogheda United
Scullion 74'	(Report)	O'Brien 9' Bradley 59'

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

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2006-03-27

Drogheda United	0 – 2	Cork City
Connor  78'	(Report)	Behan 13' O'Callaghan 79 pen'

United Park, Drogheda

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2006-03-27

Portadown	1 – 2	Dungannon Swifts
McStay 86'	(Report)	Adamson 74' Bulow 84'

Shamrock Park, Portadown

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Linfield (A)	6	2	4	0	12	4	+8	10	Advanced to the semi-finals
2	Shelbourne (A)	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9
3	Derry City	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
4	Glentoran	6	1	1	4	5	18	−13	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(A) Advance to a further round

2006-02-20

Linfield	1 – 1	Derry City
Thompson 9'	(Report)	Farren 16'

Windsor Park, Belfast

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2006-02-20

Shelbourne	3 – 0	Glentoran
Ryan 29' Crowe 36', 60'	(Report)

Tolka Park, Dublin

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2006-02-28

Derry City	0 – 0	Shelbourne
	(Report)

Brandywell, Derry

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2006-02-28

Glentoran	3 – 3	Linfield
Lockhart 11' Nixon 21 pen' Browne 74'	(Report)	McAreavey 17' Kearney 50', 69' Ferguson  57'

The Oval, Belfast

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2006-03-13

Derry City	3 – 1	Glentoran
Hargan 11', 35' Beckett 38'	(Report)	Walker 90'

Brandywell, Derry

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2006-03-13

Linfield	2 – 0	Shelbourne
Gault 35' Thompson 53'	(Report)

Windsor Park, Belfast

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2006-03-20

Glentoran	1 – 0	Derry City
Reed 8'	(Report)	Hargan  41'

The Oval, Belfast

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2006-03-20

Shelbourne	0 – 0	Linfield
Hawkins  75'	(Report)	McAreavey  24'

Tolka Park, Dublin

Referee: Alan Kelly

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2006-03-27

Derry City	0 – 0	Linfield
	(Report)

Brandywell, Derry

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2006-03-27

Glentoran	0 – 3	Shelbourne
	(Report)	Byrne 17', 68' Cahill 30'

The Oval, Belfast

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2006-04-03

Shelbourne	1 – 1	Derry City
Byrne 17'	(Report)	Martyn 89'

Tolka Park, Dublin

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2006-04-03

Linfield	6 – 0	Glentoran
Hunter 25 pen' Thompson 41', 90' McAreavey 56', 82' Murphy 62'	(Report)	Glendinning  40'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was made by drawing the winners of Group A against the runners-up of Group B and vice versa, with group winners having home advantage. There would be no replays if the matches were drawn; instead, extra time would decide winners immediately thereafter. If extra time did not decide the winners, a set of five alternating penalty kicks would decide winners.

10 April 2006
20:05 IST

Cork City	2 – 0	Shelbourne
O'Brien 34' Fenn 62'	(Report)

Turners Cross, Cork

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11 April 2006
20:05 IST

Linfield	0 – 1	Drogheda United
	(Report)	Keddy 33'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Final

Similarly to the semi-finals, there would be no replay even if the match was drawn; instead, extra time would be used to decide the winners. If extra time failed to separate the two sides, the match would go to penalties.

22 April 2006
17:00 IST

Cork City	0 – 1 (AET)	Drogheda United
	(Report)	Leech 102'

Tolka Park, Dublin

Winner of 2006 Setanta Sports Cup
Drogheda United 1st title

Goalscorers

4 goals

• Denis Behan (Cork City)
• Peter Thompson (Linfield)

3 goals

• Jason Byrne (Shelbourne)
• George O'Callaghan (Cork City)
• Paul McAreavey (Linfield)
• Declan O'Brien (Drogheda United)

2 goals

• Glen Crowe (Shelbourne)
• Sean Hargan (Derry City)
• Oran Kearney (Linfield)
• Mark Leech (Drogheda United)
• John O'Flynn (Cork City)

1 goal

• Timmy Adamson (Dungannon Swifts)
• Shane Barrett (Drogheda United)
• Gary Beckett (Derry City)
• Stephen Bradley (Drogheda United)
• Gary Browne (Glentoran)
• David Bulow (Dungannon Swifts)
• Ollie Cahill (Shelbourne)
• John Convery (Portadown)
• Mark Farren (Derry City)
• Neale Fenn (Cork City)
• Michael Gault (Linfield)
• Andrew Hunter (Linfield)
• James Keddy (Drogheda United)
• Paul Keegan (Drogheda United)
• Darren Kelly (Portadown)
• Darren Lockhart (Glentoran)
• Ciarán Martyn (Derry City)
• Rodney McAree (Dungannon Swifts)
• Henry McStay (Portadown)
• William Murphy (Linfield)
• Colin Nixon (Glentoran)
• Colin O'Brien (Cork City)
• Paddy Quinn (Portadown)
• Jamie Reed (Glentoran)
• Bobby Ryan (Shelbourne)
• David Scullion (Dungannon Swifts)
• Chris Walker (Glentoran)
• Billy Woods (Cork City)

1 own goal

• Jason Gavin (Drogheda United)

External links

• 2006 Setanta Cup on fai.ie
• 2006 Setanta Cup on rsssf.com