2011 Setanta Sports Cup

The 2011 Setanta Sports Cup was the sixth staging of the Setanta Sports Cup, an association football competition featuring clubs from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It commenced on 14 February 2011 with the final played on 14 May 2011.^[1]

2011 Setanta Sports Cup

Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland
Teams	12
Defending champions	Bohemians
Final positions
Champions	Shamrock Rovers (1st title)
Runners-up	Dundalk
Tournament statistics
Matches played	21
Goals scored	69 (3.29 per match)
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The draw for the 2011 competition was made at Belfast City Hall on 13 December 2010.

Changes to structure

For the 2011 competition, the Setanta Cup was expanded to 12 teams, of which the four highest ranked teams received a bye into the quarter-finals. Also unlike previous years the tournament was played as a straight knock-out competition over two legs apart from the final.^[2]

Television Coverage

Setanta Sports broadcast live coverage of five games, starting with the quarter-finals.

First round

Four League of Ireland and Four IFA Premiership teams played each other in the first round over two games with the winners qualifying for the quarter-finals. The first legs were played on 14 February/21 February/1 March 2011 and the second legs were played on 28 February/1 March/7 March 2011. Sporting Fingal had originally been scheduled to compete in the tournament against Lisburn Distillery but withdrew on 9 February due to financial difficulties which saw them fold the following day and were replaced by UCD.^[3]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Linfield	4−6	Dundalk	3−5	1−1
UCD	0−2	Lisburn Distillery	0−0	0−2
Cliftonville	3−2	St Patrick's Athletic	3−0	0−2
Bohemians	1−4	Portadown	1−2	0−2

Matches

First leg

14 February 2011

19.45

Linfield	3 – 5	Dundalk
Thompson 43' Garrett 64' Allen 81'	Report	Kearns 31', 66', 90+2' Quigley 54', 75'

Windsor Park

Referee: Stephen Weatherall (Antrim)

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14 February 2011

19.45

UCD	0 – 0	Lisburn Distillery
	Report

Dalymount Park

Attendance: 150

Referee: Derek Tomney (Dublin)

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21 February 2011

19.45

Cliftonville	3 − 0	St Patrick's Athletic
McMullan 31', 49' O'Connor 42'	Report

Solitude

Attendance: 400

Referee: Davie Malcolm

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1 March 2011

19.45

Bohemians	1 − 2	Portadown
Somers 63' Brennan  77'	Report	Braniff 45' O'Hara 59'

Dalymount Park

Attendance: 800

Referee: Tom Connolly

Second leg

28 February 2011

20.00

Dundalk	1 − 1	Linfield
Gaynor 11'	Report	Gault 45+3'

Oriel Park

Attendance: 2250

Referee: Damien Hancock

Dundalk won 6 − 4 on aggregate

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28 February 2011

19.45

Lisburn Distillery	2 − 0	UCD
Browne 18' (pen.) Davidson 86'	Report

New Grosvenor Stadium

Referee: Colin Burns

Distillery won 2 − 0 on aggregate.

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1 March 2011

19.45

St Patrick's Athletic	2 − 0	Cliftonville
Mulcahy 41' McMillan 80'	Report

Richmond Park

Attendance: 1000

Referee: Derek Tomney (Dublin)

Cliftonville won 3 − 2 on aggregate.

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7 March 2011

19.45

Portadown	2 − 0	Bohemians
Baker 10' Mouncey 47'	Report

Shamrock Park

Portadown won 4−1 on aggregate

Quarter−Finals

The winners of the four first-round games joined the four seeded teams (Shamrock Rovers, Sligo Rovers, Crusaders and Glentoran) who received a Bye into the quarter-finals. The first legs were played on 7 March/14 March/28 March 2011 and the second legs were played on 21 March/22 March/4 April 2011.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Glentoran	1−2	Dundalk	0−1	1−1
Cliftonville	10−6	Crusaders	4−2	6−4
Lisburn Distillery	2−7	Shamrock Rovers	0−3	2−4
Sligo Rovers	5−0	Portadown	3−0	2−0

Matches

First leg

7 March 2011

19.45

Glentoran	0 − 1	Dundalk
	Report	Quigley 82'

The Oval

Referee: Arnold Hunter (Fermanagh)

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14 March 2011

19.45

Cliftonville	4 − 2	Crusaders
McMullan 24' McVeigh 71' Garrett 85' Holland 86'	Report[permanent dead link]	Magee 32' Halliday 54' Gibson  79'

Solitude

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14 March 2011

19.45

Lisburn Distillery	0 − 3	Shamrock Rovers
Cooling  78'	Report	Sheppard 35' Kilduff 40' Kelly 68'

New Grosvenor Stadium

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28 March 2011

19.45

Sligo Rovers	3 − 0	Portadown
Dillon 21' Russell 58' Cretaro 90'	Report

Sligo Showgrounds

Referee: T.Connolly

Second leg

21 March 2011

19.55

Dundalk	1 − 1	Glentoran
Gaynor 80'	Report	Burrows 59' (pen.) Taylor  79'

Oriel Park

Attendance: 2100

Referee: Richie Winter (Dublin)

Dundalk won 2−1 on aggregate

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21 March 2011

19.45

Crusaders	4 − 6	Cliftonville
Sweeney 13' Faulkner 18' Caddell 39', 74'	Report[permanent dead link]	O'Connor 5', 20' Holland 10' McMullan 54' (pen.) Garrett 61' Donnelly 89'

Seaview

Cliftonville won 10−6 on aggregate

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22 March 2011

19.45

Shamrock Rovers	4 − 2	Lisburn Distillery
Kilduff 42' Rice 47' Kavanagh 82', 89'	Report	Liggett 14', 57'

Tallaght Stadium

Attendance: 500

Referee: Neil Doyle

Shamrock Rovers won 7−2 on aggregate.

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4 April 2011

19.45

Portadown	0 − 2	Sligo Rovers
	Report	Horgan 40' Ndo 75'

Shamrock Park

Sligo Rovers won 5−0 on aggregate

Semi−Finals

The four winners of the quarter-final games played each other over two games for a place in the 2011 Setanta Sports Cup final. The first legs were played on 4 April/11 April 2011 and the second legs were played on 18 April/19 April 2011. The draw for the semi-finals was made on 23 March 2011.^[4]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cliftonville	2−5	Dundalk	1−3	1−2
Sligo Rovers	1−4	Shamrock Rovers	0−2	1−2

Matches

First leg

4 April 2011

19.45

Cliftonville	1 − 3	Dundalk
McMullan 24'	Report	Quigley 49', 82' Kearns 73'

Solitude

Attendance: 750

Referee: Damien Hancock

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11 April 2011

19.45

Sligo Rovers	0 − 2	Shamrock Rovers
Russell  74'	Report	Finn 27' Sheppard 58'

Sligo Showgrounds

Referee: Alan Kelly

Second leg

18 April 2011

19.45

Dundalk	2 − 1	Cliftonville
Byrne 67' Breen 90+3'	Report	O'Connor 59'

Oriel Park

Referee: Alan Black (Antrim)

Dundalk won 5−2 on aggregate

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19 April 2011

19.45

Shamrock Rovers	2 − 1	Sligo Rovers
Sheppard 8' Dennehy 25'	Report	Doyle 4'

Tallaght Stadium

Referee: Raymond Crangle

Shamrock Rovers won 4−1 on aggregate

Final

The two winners of the semi-final games played each other over one game to decide who would be crowned Setanta Sports Cup winners for 2011. The final took place on Saturday 14 May 2011 in Tallaght Stadium.^[5] Shamrock Rovers beat Dundalk to win the competition for the first time.^[6]

Match

14 May 2011

18.15 IST

Dundalk	0 – 2	Shamrock Rovers
	Report	O'Neill 65' Dennehy 90+3'

Tallaght Stadium

Attendance: 4,789

Referee: Alan Kelly

Winner of 2011 Setanta Sports Cup
Shamrock Rovers 1st Title

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Mark Quigley (Dundalk)
• George McMullan (Cliftonville)

4 goals

• Kieran O'Connor (Cliftonville)
• Daniel Kearns (Dundalk)

3 goals

• Karl Sheppard (Shamrock Rovers)

2 goals

• Declan Caddell (Crusaders)
• Billy Dennehy (Shamrock Rovers)
• Stephen Garrett (Cliftonville)
• Ross Gaynor (Dundalk)
• Mark Holland (Cliftonville)
• Patrick Kavanagh (Shamrock Rovers)
• Ciarán Kilduff (Shamrock Rovers)
• Gary Liggett (Lisburn Distillery)

1 goal

• Curtis Allen (Linfield)
• Jordan Baker (Portadown)
• Kevin Braniff (Portadown)
• Johnny Breen (Dundalk)
• Gary Browne (Lisburn Distillery)
• Matty Burrows (Glentoran)
• Jason Byrne (Dundalk)
• Raffaele Cretaro (Sligo Rovers)
• Scott Davidson (Lisburn Distillery)
• John Dillon (Sligo Rovers)
• Eoin Doyle (Sligo Rovers)
• Rory Donnelly (Cliftonville)
• William Faulkner (Crusaders)
• Ronan Finn (Shamrock Rovers)
• Robert Garrett (Linfield)
• Michael Gault (Linfield)
• Michael Halliday (Crusaders)
• Daryl Horgan (Sligo Rovers)
• Dean Kelly (Shamrock Rovers)
• Jonathan Magee (Crusaders)
• David McMillan (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Dermot McVeigh (Cliftonville)
• Tim Mouncey (Portadown)
• Dave Mulcahy (St Patrick's Athletic)
• Joseph Ndo (Sligo Rovers)
• Keith O'Hara (Portadown)
• Gary O'Neill (Shamrock Rovers)
• Stephen Rice (Shamrock Rovers)
• John Russell (Sligo Rovers)
• Karl Somers (Bohemians)
• Vincent Sweeney (Crusaders)
• Peter Thompson (Linfield)