Derry City F.C. records

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[edit] Honours

Derry City celebrate winning the 2006 FAI Cup.

League titles: 4
- Irish Football League: 1964-65
- Football League of Ireland: 1988-89, 1996-97
- Football League of Ireland First Division: 1986-87
FAI Cup: 4
- 1989, 1995, 2002, 2006^[1]
FAI League Cup: 7
- 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1999-2000, 2005, 2006^[2]
IFA Cup: 3
- 1948-49, 1953-54, 1963-64
League of Ireland First Division Shield: 1
- 1985-86
City Cup: 2
- 1935, 1937
Gold Cup: 1
- 1964
Top Four Winners: 1
- 1966
North-West Senior Cup: 14
- 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1938-39, 1953-54, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1968-69, 1970-71

[edit] Domestic football

See FAI National League 2007 season for a general overview of Derry City's current season.

Derry compete in a number of major domestic competitions on an annual basis. Those include the League of Ireland, the FAI Cup and the FAI League Cup. They can also take part in the cross-border Setanta Sports Cup, on condition of qualification for the tournament based on performances in the three former competitions. Prior to 1973 the club's main domestic competitions were the Irish League and the IFA Cup.

[edit] National League of Ireland

Up until the end of the 2006 season, Derry had played a total of 691 League of Ireland games since joining in 1985. 306 of these games had been won (44.28%), 197 had been drawn (28.51%) and 188 had been lost (27.21%). In the process, 951 goals were scored (an average of 1.38 goals per game) and 651 were conceded (an average of 0.94 goals per game). With 993 points being accumulated over those League of Ireland years, Derry managed an average of 1.44 points per game.

A graphical representation of Derry City's historical standings in the League of Ireland. The colored bars represent the two tiers of Irish football - the red bar being the Premier Division and the black bar being the First Division.

Season	Points	Position	Games	Wins	Draws	Losses	Goals For	Goals Against
2007¹	21	7th	17	5	6	6	16	16
2006²	62	2nd³	30	18	8	4	46	20
2005⁴	72	2nd	33	22	6	5	56	25
2004	44	7th	36	11	11	14	23	32
2003⁵	36	9th	36	7	15	14	33	51
2002-03⁶	31	8th	27	8	7	12	31	37
2001-02	51	5th	33	14	9	10	42	30
2000-01	45	6th	33	12	9	12	31	38
1999-00	46	7th	33	12	10	11	32	38
1998-99	45	5th	33	12	9	12	34	32
1997-98	40	9th	33	10	10	13	30	31
1996-97	67	1st	33	19	10	4	58	27
1995-96	46	6th	33	11	13	9	50	38
1994-95	58	2nd	33	16	10	7	45	30
1993-94⁷	46	4th	32	12	10	10	37	35
1992-93⁸	37	5th	32	11	15	6	26	23
1991-92	44	2nd	33	17	10	6	49	21
1990-91	35	7th	33	13	9	11	51	28
1989-90	49	2nd	33	20	9	4	72	18
1988-89	53	1st	34	25	5	4	70	21
1987-88	31	8th	33	13	5	15	59	44
1986-87⁹	33	1st	18	16	1	1	45	14
1985-86¹⁰	22	4th	18	8	6	4	31	18

Note 1: First season of newly-administered FAI Premiership. Season in progress.
Note 2: League reduced from 12 teams to 11 teams mid-season after Dublin City FC resigned so all their games were expunged from the record and the league table re-calculated.
Note 3: On goal difference.^[3]
Note 4: League increased from 10 competing teams to 12 competing teams from start of this season onward (until 2009 when Premiership will be reduced to 10 teams, as planned by FAI).
Note 5: League changed to 'Summer season' from start of this season onward.
Note 6: League reduced from 12 competing teams to 10 competing teams from outset of season. Lasted for 3 further seasons until end of 2004 season.
Note 7: Changed from two points to three for a win from start of this season onward.
Note 8: Top and bottom halves of league split into two groups of 6 teams for two concluding relegation and title mini-series. Concept lasted for two seasons.
Note 9: Promoted from First Division to Premier Division after finishing top of division and have remained there ever since.
Note 10: Season Derry City first entered First Division. Division made up of 10 teams for all of Derry's period of taking part.

[edit] FAI Cup

159 goals in total have been scored by Derry in all their FAI Cup ties, with four players recording hat-tricks - Owen Da Gama, Alex Krstic, Jonathan Speak and Sean Hargan. Derry City have appeared in the FAI Cup final on 7 occasions, winning 4 of those.

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1987-88	Dundalk FC	1-0	Derry City
1988-89	Derry City	0-0, 1-0¹¹	Cork City FC
1993-94	Sligo Rovers	1-0	Derry City
1994-95	Derry City	2-1	Shelbourne FC
1996-97	Shelbourne FC	2-0	Derry City FC
2002¹²	Derry City	1-0	Shamrock Rovers
2006	Derry City	4-3¹³	St. Patrick's Athletic

Note 11: After replay.
Note 12: This was second FAI Cup final in 2002 due to a 'Winter transition season' being played to allow for the new 'Summer season' to proceed in March 2003.
Note 13: After extra-time.

(Complete record)

[edit] FAI League Cup

Derry City have appeared in the FAI League Cup final on 9 occasions, winning 7 of those.

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1988-89	Derry City	4-0	Dundalk FC
1989-90	Dundalk FC¹⁴	1-1	Derry City
1990-91	Derry City	2-0	Limerick
1991-92	Derry City	1-0	Bohemian FC
1993-94	Derry City	1-0¹⁵	Shelbourne FC
1999-00	Derry City	5-2¹⁵	Athlone Town FC
2001-02	Limerick	2-2 ¹⁵	Derry City
2005	Derry City	2-1	UCD
2006	Derry City¹⁶	0-0	Shelbourne FC
2007	Derry City¹⁷	1-0	Bohemian FC

Note 14: Dundalk won on penalties.
Note 15: Aggregate score after two legs.
Note 16: Derry City won on penalties.
¹⁷ Derry City scored in extra time.

[edit] IFA Cup

Derry City have appeared in the IFA Cup final on 6 occasions, winning 3 of those.

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1935-36	Linfield FC	0-0, 2-1¹⁷	Derry City
1948-49	Derry City	1-0	Glentoran FC
1953-54	Derry City	2-2, 0-0, 1-0¹⁸	Glentoran FC
1956-57	Glenavon FC	2-0	Derry City
1963-64	Derry City	2-0	Glentoran FC
1970-71	Lisburn Distillery	3-0	Derry City

Note 17: After replay and extra-time.
Note 18: After two replays.

[edit] Setanta Cup

Derry City have appeared in the cross-border Setanta Cup on two occasions - 2006 and 2007.

[edit] 2006

Group 2

Team	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	For	Against	Points
Linfield FC	6	2	4	0	12	4	10
Shelbourne FC	6	2	3	1	7	3	9
Derry City FC	6	1	4	1	5	4	7
Glentoran FC	6	1	1	4	5	18	4

As the top two teams from both of the two groups qualified for the semi-final of the competition, Derry failed to progress after finishing in third position.

[edit] 2007

Group 1

Team	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	For	Against	Points
Linfield FC	6	3	3	0	8	5	12
Drogheda United	6	3	2	1	5	2	11
Derry City FC	6	1	2	3	6	8	5
Glentoran FC	6	1	1	4	4	8	4

Derry failed to progress to the semi-finals for the second year in a row after recording only one victory and three defeats - one to each team in the group - as well as two draws.

(Complete record)

[edit] European competition

UEFA Champions League:

Appearances	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
3	7	1	0	6	9	24

UEFA Cup:

Appearances	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
4	12	3	3	6	11	16

Cup Winners Cup:

Appearances	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
3	6	1	1	4	1	11

[edit] Past opponents

Season	Competition	Team	Score
1964-65	Cup Winners' Cup Round 1	Steaua Bucureşti	0-2, 0-3 (0-5 agg.)
1965-66	European Cup Preliminary Round	FC Lyn Oslo	3-5, 5-1 (8-6 agg.)
1965-66	European Cup Round 1	RSC Anderlecht	0-9, w/o (0-9 agg.)
1988-89	Cup Winners' Cup Round 1	Cardiff City FC	0-0, 0-4 (0-4 agg.)
1989-90	European Cup Round 1	SL Benfica	1-2, 0-4 (1-6 agg.)
1990-91	UEFA Cup Round 1	Vitesse Arnhem	0-1, 0-0 (0-1 agg.)
1992-93	UEFA Cup Round 1	Vitesse Arnhem	0-3, 1-2 (1-5 agg.)
1995-96	Cup Winners' Cup Qual. Round	PFC Lokomotiv Sofia	1-0, 0-2 (1-2 agg.)
1997-98	Champions League Qual. Round 1	NK Maribor	0-2, 0-1 (0-3 agg.)
2003-04	UEFA Cup Qual. Round	APOEL	1-2, 0-3 (1-5 agg.)
2006-07	UEFA Cup Qual. Round 1	IFK Göteborg	1-0, 1-0 (2-0 agg.)
2006-07	UEFA Cup Qual. Round 2	Gretna FC	5-1, 2-2 (7-3 agg.)
2006-07	UEFA Cup Round 1	Paris Saint-Germain FC	0-0, 0-2 (0-2 agg.)
2007-08	Champions League Qual. Round 1	FC Pyunik

(Full details)

[edit] UEFA coefficient and ranking

Derry City's UEFA coefficient accumulates to a total value of 3.145 as of their 2006-07 European season (now completed as the club has been knocked out).^[4]

[edit] Current club ranking

213 MyPa-47
214 Zimbru Chişinău
215 Derry City FC
215 Shelbourne FC¹⁹
217 Vardar Skopje

(Full list)

Note 19: Shelbourne has an identical coefficient value to that of Derry City.

[edit] Player records

[edit] Record appearances in the League of Ireland

Rank	Player	Total appearances
1	Peter Hutton	573
2	Paul Curran	518
3	Sean Hargan	408
4	Gary Beckett	395
5	Liam Coyle	390

[edit] Senior international players to have played for Derry City

Northern Ireland/ Ireland:

Name	Caps	Goals
Terry Cochrane	26	1
Billy Gillespie	25	13
Jobby Crossan	24	10
Liam O'Kane	20	0
Bobby Irvine	15	3
Paul Ramsey	14	0
Jim McLaughlin	12	6
Jimmy Kelly	11	4
David Campbell	10	0
Billy McCullough	10	0
Jimmy Hill	7	0
Bobby Browne	6	0
Gerry McElhinney	6	0
Terry Harkin	5	2
Sammy Curran	4	2
Fay Coyle	4	0
Felix Healy	4	0
Gerry Bowler	3	0
S.R. Russell	3	0
Johnny Campbell	2	0
Jimmy Elwood	2	0
Victor Hunter	2	0
Tony O'Doherty	2	0
Liam Coyle	1	0
Matt Doherty	1	0
Shaun Holmes	1	0
Patrick McCourt	1	0

Republic of Ireland/Ireland (Irish Free State):

Name	Caps	Goals
David Kelly	26	9
Alan Moore	8	0
Jackie Hennessy	5	0
Jimmy Kelly	4	0
Bobby Gilbert	1	0

England:

Name	Caps	Goals
Luther Blissett	14	3
Dennis Tueart	6	2
Steve Williams	6	0
Alan Sunderland	1	0

Scotland:

Name	Caps	Goals
Jimmy Delaney	15	6
Johnny McKenzie	9	0

Trinidad and Tobago:

Name	Caps	Goals
Derek Phillips	6	0

Zaire:

Name	Caps	Goals
Jose Mukendi	?	?

[edit] Competitive managerial records in the League of Ireland

Name	Nationality	From	To	Record
Name	Nationality	From	To	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals for	Goals against	Win percentage
Jim Crossan		1985	1985	10	2	4	4	9	13	20%
Noel King²⁰		1985	1987	62	43	7	12	144	57	69%
Jim McLaughlin		1987	1991	177	97	41	39	347	141	55%
Roy Coyle		1991	1993	97	44	32	21	115	71	45%
Tony O'Doherty		1993	1994	56	29	14	13	76	52	52%
Felix Healy		1994	1998	171	73	53	45	262	169	43%
Kevin Mahon		1998	2003	200	82	51	67	225	213	41%
Dermot Keely		2003	2003	11	1	6	4	9	18	9%
Gavin Dykes		2003	2004	34	8	13	13	23	30	24%
Peter Hutton²⁰		2004	2004	12	6	3	3	10	10	50%
Stephen Kenny		2004	2006	112²¹	65	29	18	170	80	58%
Pat Fenlon		2006	2007	18	6	5	7	16	18	33%
Peter Hutton²⁰		2007	2007	6	1	3	2	7	5	17%
John Robertson		2007	—	2	2	0	0	6	2	100%

Note 20: Acted as player-manager.
Note 21: Record includes two games - a win and a loss - against Dublin City which were expunged from the records after being contested.

[edit] Other records

Derry City's first ever goalscorer was Peter Burke against Glentoran on 22 August 1929.^[5]

On 24 August 1929, Sammy Curran had the honour of scoring Derry City's first senior hat-trick, as the club came back from 5-1 down against Portadown FC, only to lose 6-5 to a late goal.

The club's all-time highest goal-scorer is Jimmy Kelly with 363 goals during a spell of over 20 years at the club between 1930 and the early 1951. Since the entry of the club into League of Ireland football, Liam Coyle is Derry's top scorer with 112 goals to his name after 390 competitive appearances for the club.

Terry Kelly, who captained Derry City in 1985, was the first football player in the world to captain a club he played with in two different national leagues.^[6]

Barry McCreadie was Derry's first goalscorer in the League of Ireland. He scored during a 3–1 home win over Home Farm on 8 September 1985.

Derry City's first hat-trick in the League of Ireland was scored by Kevin Mahon away at Finn Harps on 15 December 1985.

Derry City's record league defeat was to Longford Town FC in January, 1986. The score was 5-1.

Derry City's record league victory was a score of 9-1 against Galway United in October, 1986.

The club's highest scorer in the League of Ireland is Liam Coyle, who played for the club from 1988 until 2003. Coyle scored 112 goals in 390 competitive appearances for the club.

Derry City completed a treble in the League of Ireland 1988–89 season. Shamrock Rovers are the only others to have completed this feat — three times in total.

Derry are one of only three clubs (the others are Shelbourne and Bohemians) who have won both the Irish Cup and the FAI Cup.

Derry are the only team in Ireland to have won both the Irish League and the League of Ireland.

Derry played in the first League of Ireland match ever to be shown live on television when they visited Tolka Park to play Shelbourne FC during the 1996-97 season. The game was broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2 and finished 1-1 with Gary Beckett scoring for Derry.

In 2005, Kevin McHugh became one of just a handful of current players to join the 38-strong group of players who have scored 100 or more League of Ireland goals in the modern era.

Derry's 5-1 away win against Gretna FC at Fir Park, Motherwell in the 2006-07 UEFA Cup's Second Qualifying Round is the largest away winning margin for any League of Ireland team in European competition.

Derry played a record number of 54 games in the whole 2006 season including all competitions. Previously, the record had been the 49 games played in all competitions during the treble-winning 1988-89 season.

Derry's FAI Cup final game against St. Patrick's Athletic on 03 December 2006 was the last soccer game ever to be contested at the old Lansdowne Road stadium before the commencement of planned re-development.^[7] Derry won the wind-swept game 4-3 after extra-time.

The first goal of the 2007 FAI National League season was scored by Derry's Kevin McHugh.

Derry City is a unique club, due to its troubled and fluctuant history, in that it is one of the few clubs from the United Kingdom (and the only club in Northern Ireland) to play in the league of another country - the league of the Republic of Ireland in the case of Derry City. (See Football clubs playing in the league of another country for further general information.)

Derry have never been relegated from any of the divisions they have played in.

[edit] References

^ "Derry see off St Pat's in decider", BBC Sport Online. Retrieved 4 September 2006.
^ "Derry win eircom League Cup final", BBC Sport Online. 18 September 2006.
^ "Derry lose to Shels in title race", BBC Sport Online, 17 November, 2006. Retrieved 4 December, 2006.
^ "UEFA Team Ranking 2007," Bert Kassies, 2007.
^ "They were the First...", CityWeb, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-04.
^ Mahon, Eddie (1998). Derry City FC, Guildhall Press, p. 124.
^ "Derry edge a thriller", Paul O'Hehir, The Irish Times (Ireland.com), 3 December, 2006. Retrieved 4 December, 2006.

[edit] Further reading

Coyle, Liam (10/03/2002). "Born to Play". . Four Courts Press Ltd ISBN-10 0954241002, ISBN-13 978-0954241001
Curran, Frank (1986). "The Derry City Story". . Donegal Democrat
Mahon, Eddie (1998). "Derry City". . Guildhall Press
Platt, William Henry Walker (09/1986). "A History of Derry City Football Club, 1929-72". . Platt ISBN-10 0950195324, ISBN-13 978-0950195322

[edit] External links

Official club site:

CityWeb

News and information sites:

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