Shelbourne FC

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Shelbourne FC
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Basic data
Surname Shelbourne Football Club
Seat Dublin
founding 1895
president Joe Casey
Website shelbournefc.ie
First soccer team
Venue Tolka Park , Dublin
Places 9680
league Premier Division
2019   1st place, First Division
home
Away
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The Shelbourne Football Club is a football club from the Drumcondra district of the Irish capital Dublin, founded in 1895 . Shelbourne was a founding member of the League of Ireland in 1921 and has been a member of it with a two-year hiatus (1934-36) since then.

history

In 1905 Shelbourne was first class, at that time still in the all-Irish league. The final of the All-Ireland Cup was reached in the first year, but the club lost 3-0 to Distillery FC from Belfast . But when the final was reached again next year, it was won for the first time by a club from the later Republic of Ireland with a 2-0 win over Belfast Celtic . The All-Ireland Cup could be won twice more before the independence of the south of the island, in 1911 and 1920.

In 1921 Shelbourne was one of the founders of the League of Ireland ; in the first ten years of the same the championship could be won three times in 1926, 1929 and 1931, but in 1934 it was excluded from the league. After the resumption in 1936, the Irish Free State Cup was finally won in 1939. The three championship titles in 1944, 1947 and 1953 were followed by a dry spell until the early 1960s. In addition to cup victories in 1960 and 1963 and the championship in 1962 , the first round of a European competition, the trade fair cup , could be survived in 1964 ; after two draws, Belenenses Lisbon was defeated 2-1 in the playoff. In the second round they were eliminated with two 0: 1 lost games against Atlético Madrid .

The next time Shelbourne was only able to achieve national and European successes in the 1990s. In 1992 they won the championship and in 1993 the cup, in 1993 the second round of a European cup, this time the cup winners' cup , could be reached. The Reds have been represented in European competitions every year since 1995, but were eliminated in the first round every time until 1999. 2000 was then the year of the Reds, the double of the championship and the cup and the very first away win of a club from the Republic of Ireland in the Champions League against the Macedonian champion Sloga Jugomagnat from Skopje , who made it possible to advance to the second round, where they were unhappy and in the height undeserved with 1: 3 at home and 1: 1 away at Rosenborg Trondheim failed. Starting with 2002, three championships could be won in a row. In the Champions League they failed in 2002 and 2003 against the first round opponent, but in 2004/05 they made it into the third and final qualifying round via KR Reykjavík and Hajduk Split . In the first leg in Dublin, Deportivo La Coruña won a draw, but the second leg was lost 3-0 in Spain after a nearly even game with goals just before the end. In the UEFA Cup, in which they got out of the Champions League, they again managed a home draw against OSC Lille in the first leg, but they lost the second leg again. 2005 succeeded in the Champions League again after two victories against the Northern Irish champions Glentoran FC the entry into the second qualifying round, where they failed to Steaua Bucharest . In the 2006/07 season Shelbourne reached the second round of the UI Cup , but then lost to Odense BK . In 2006, however, the club won the Irish championship for the fifth time in seven years.

At the end of the 2006 season, however, the team broke up completely after no salaries had been paid for several months. Coach and 16 players left the club, which withdrew first from the Setanta Sports Cup and was revoked in February 2007 by the license committee of the Irish Association of the license for the Premier Division . After the forced relegation, the Shels will only take part in the game operations of the second-rate First Division .

successes

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Debts cost Shelbourne dear” by Aidan Fitzmaurice, announcement on UEFA's uefa.com website of February 20, 2007 ( [1] , English ).