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2013 League of Ireland Premier Division

The 2013 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 29th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division featured 12 teams. St. Patrick's Athletic were champions, winning their eighth top level League of Ireland title. Dundalk finished as runners-up.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Map of the Republic of Ireland with the twelve League of Ireland Premier Division teams
Bray Wanderes
Cork City
Derry City
Drogheda United
Dublin
Dublin
Dundalk FC
Limerick FC
Sligo Rovers
Dublin teams Bohemians FC Shamrock Rovers Shelbourne St Patrick's Athletic UCD
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Locations of Premier Division teams
Map of Dublin with the five League of Ireland Premier Division Dublin teams
Bohemians
St Patrick's Athletic
Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne
UCD
UCD
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Locations of Dublin Premier Division teams

Personnel and kits

Overview

The Premier Division featured 12 teams. Each team played each other three times, totalling 33 games. The regular season began on 8 March and concluded on 25 October.[3] St. Patrick's Athletic clinched the title on 13 October 2013, with two games to go, after a 2–0 win against the holders, Sligo Rovers.[4][5][6]

Final Table

Source: [7]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results

Matches 1–22

Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/relegation play-off

Bray Wanderers, the eleventh placed team from the Premier Division, played off against Longford Town, the winners of the 2013 First Division play off. The winner of this play off would play in the 2014 Premier Division.[3]

Bray Wanderers win 5–4 on aggregate and retained their place in the Premier Division.

Goal scorers

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Awards

Player of the Month

PFAI Players' Player of the Year

PFAI Young Player of the Year

Team of the Year

[26]

Television coverage

Live coverage of matches in Ireland were shown on RTÉ Two and Setanta Sports. MNS on RTÉ Two showed match highlights and analysis on each Monday night during the season.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ One attendance figure is missing from the 2013 season https://www.researchgate.net/figure/League-of-Ireland-Premier-Division-Attendance_tbl1_286919999

References

  1. ^ a b "Ireland - List of Topscorers". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  2. ^ "The Demand for League of Ireland Football". research gate. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Ireland 2013". RSSSF. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Super St Patrick's Athletic jumping for joy with league title". Irish Independent. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  5. ^ "St Patrick's Athletic 2–0 Sligo Rovers". RTÉ Sport. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Bolger beauty gets title party going at Pat's". Irish Examiner. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Ireland 2013". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Derry hit inept UCD with six of the best". The Irish Times. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  9. ^ Leahy, Ed (15 April 2013). "St Patrick's Athletic 4–0 Shelbourne". RTÉ News. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Bray Wanderers 3 – 2 Drogheda United". Extra Time. 24 May 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  11. ^ Pollard, Stephen (9 June 2013). "UCD 4 – 5 Bray Wanderers". www.extratime.ie. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  12. ^ Crawley, Darren (12 July 2013). "Dundalk FC 3 – 0 Bohemians FC". Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  13. ^ "Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 St Patrick's Athletic".
  14. ^ "Cork City 4 – 1 Derry City". Extra Time. 31 August 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  15. ^ "Dundalk 3 – 0 Derry City". Extra Time. 30 September 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  16. ^ "Cork City 5 – 3 Shelbourne". Extra Time. 11 October 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  17. ^ "Derry City 6 - 0 Limerick FC".
  18. ^ "Anthony Elding named SWAI". SWAI.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Barry McNamee named SWAI". SWAI.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  20. ^ "Killian Brennan named SWAI". SWAI.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  21. ^ "Jason Byrne named SWAI". SWAI.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  22. ^ "Patrick Hoban named SWAI". SWAI.ie. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  23. ^ "Dundalk's Richie Towell picks up player of the month award". rte.ie. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  24. ^ "Anto Flood named Airtricity/SWAI Player of the Month for September". RTÉ News. 21 October 2013.
  25. ^ "Kilduff is player of the month for October". RTÉ News. 31 October 2013.
  26. ^ "Here's the Premier Division Team of the Year". The Score. 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2013.