2007 Setanta Sports Cup

The 2007 Setanta Sports Cup was the 3rd staging of the cross-border cup competition that takes place between football clubs from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The final was played at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 May 2007, and was won by Drogheda United with a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over Linfield when the scores were level at 1–1 after extra time. Drogheda won the trophy for the second successive year.

2007 Setanta Sports Cup
Country Northern Ireland &
Republic of Ireland
Teams8
Champions Drogheda United
(2nd title)
Runners-up Linfield
Matches played27
Goals scored67 (2.48 per match)
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Shelbourne's withdrawal

The draw for the 2007 Setanta Cup competition was made on 7 December 2006 with the original competing teams being the identical ones to the previous year's competition. On 30 January 2007, however, Shelbourne announced that they were withdrawing from the competition for reasons relating to their financial troubles and the fact that they would be unlikely to field a team of players. Their place was given to the 2006 FAI Cup runners-up to Derry City, St Patrick's Athletic, despite the fact that the next best-placed in the previous season's league (Shelbourne's qualification route), who did not have a place in the Setanta Cup already, were Sligo Rovers.

Group stage
The draw for this round was held 7 December 2006. The matches were played 26 February-17 April 2007.

Teams that progressed to the Semi-Finals are indicated in bold type.

Teams eliminated from the Setanta Cup are indicated in italics.

Group A
TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1. Linfield 633085+312
2. Drogheda Utd 632152+311
3. Derry City 612368-25
4. Glentoran 611448-44
Drogheda United0 – 1Linfield
(Report) O'Kane  29'
Glentoran0 – 1Derry City
(Report) McHugh  85'
Attendance: 2,728
Referee: Alan Black
Linfield1 – 1Glentoran
Stewart  21'
Gault  90+'		 (Report) Hill  31'
Neill  90+'
Referee: Ian Stokes
Derry City0 – 0Drogheda United
(Report)
Glentoran0 – 1Drogheda United
(Report) O'Keeffe  48'
Linfield2 – 1Derry City
Dickson  20'
Kearney  45 pen'
Lindsay  79'		 (Report) Farren  14'
Derry City2 – 2Linfield
Beckett  35'
McCourt  60'		 (Report) O'Kane  74'
Dickson  85'
Drogheda United2 – 0Glentoran
O'Keeffe  30'
Grant  45'		 (Report) Hill  35'
Derry City1 – 2Glentoran
Brennan  16' (Report) McMenamin  54'
McDonagh  87'
Linfield0 – 0Drogheda United
(Report)
Drogheda United2 – 1Derry City
Grant  69'
Zayed  90+'		 (Report) Deery  45'
Glentoran1 – 2Linfield
Neill  42 pen' (Report) Stewart  7'
Thompson  55'

Group B
TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1. St Patrick's Athletic 6510173+1416
2. Cork City 6312145+910
3. Dungannon Swifts 6042612-64
4. Portadown 6024320-172
Dungannon Swifts0 – 0Cork City
(Report)
Referee: Frankie Hiles
St Patrick's Athletic3 – 0Portadown
Ndo  41'
Kirby  47',  53'		 (Report)
Portadown2 – 2Dungannon Swifts
Collins  68'
McCutcheon  70'		 (Report) McCluskey  21'
Gallagher  90+3'
Cork City1 – 3St Patrick's Athletic
O'Flynn  85' (Report) O'Neill  32',  90+2 pen'
Kirby  50'
Dungannon Swifts2 – 2St Patrick's Athletic
McAllister  4'
Everaldo  34'		 (Report) Kirby  19'
Fahey  49'
Cork City4 – 0Portadown
O'Donovan  46',  76'
Lordan  60'
Lally  90'		 (Report)
Portadown0 – 7Cork City
(Report) Behan  15',  82'
O'Flynn  18'
Gamble  32'
O'Donovan  44',  66',  87'
St Patrick's Athletic5 – 0Dungannon Swifts
Murphy  29'
Quigley  37'
O'Connor  46'
Kirby  57'
Brennan  61'		 (Report)
Dungannon Swifts1 – 1Portadown
McAree  37' (Report) Collins  80'
St Patrick's Athletic1 – 0Cork City
Maguire  27' (Report)
Referee: Mark Courtney
Cork City2 – 1Dungannon Swifts
O'Brien  4'
Behan  35'		 (Report) McCabe  64'
Wells  81'
Referee: Declan Hanney
Portadown0 – 3St Patrick's Athletic
(Report) Lynch  52'
O'Connor  62',  71'

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.

St. Patrick's Athletic0 – 1 (AET)Drogheda United
(Report) Zayed  112'
Attendance: 2,735
Referee: Adrian McCourt
Linfield1 – 0Cork City
O'Kane  85' (Report)
Attendance: 2,647
Referee: Ian Stokes

Final
Main article: Setanta Sports Cup Final 2007
Linfield1 – 1 (AET)Drogheda United
McAreavey  67' (Report) Lynch 56'
Grant  77'
Penalties
Ervin
Mouncey
Ferguson
Dickson
O'Kane 		3 – 4 Lynch
Grant
Bradley
Robinson
Byrne
Referee: Adrian McCourt


Winner of 2007 Setanta Sports Cup
Drogheda United
2nd Title

Goalscorers
5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
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