The 1949 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1948–49 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated...
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The FAI Cup Final, known recently as the SportsDirect FAI Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, is an annual soccer match which is the last game in the Football...
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Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup (FAI Cup), known as the Sports Direct FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association...
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The FAI Junior Cup is a cup competition organized by the Football Association of Ireland for junior association football clubs from the Republic of Ireland...
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the qualification rounds of the 1950 FIFA World Cup, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Brazil, as the hosts, and Italy, as the...
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The FAI Youth Cup, also known as the FAI Umbro Youth Challenge Cup, is a cup competition organised by the FAI for youth association football clubs and...
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The 1952 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1951–52 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated...
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The FAI Intermediate Cup (Irish: Corn Comortais Peile na hÉireann), also known as the FAI Umbro Intermediate Cup and the Pat O'Brien Intermediate Challenge...
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the World Cup finals for the first time. FIFA subsequently offered their place to both France, the runners-up in Group 3 and Ireland (FAI), the runners-up...
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Shelbourne F.C. (section Forties: 1940–1949)
league 13 times and are one of three clubs to have won both the IFA Cup and the FAI Cup. In the 2004–05 European season, Shelbourne became the first Irish...
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won the Dublin City Cup this year beating Dundalk in the final. Two years later, in 1939, the club reached their first FAI Cup final by beating Dundalk...
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Football Association of Ireland (FAI). The team made their debut at the 1924 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals. Between 1924 and 1936, the team...
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most successful club by 1949, winning 44 major trophies. During the 1950s, the club won three League titles and two FAI Cups and became the first Irish...
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St Patrick's Athletic F.C. (section Stephen O'Donnell reign & FAI Cup win (August 2019 – December 2021))
1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1955–56, 1956–57 FAI Junior Cup: 1 1940–41 FAI Youth Cup: 1 1944–45 Dr Tony O'Neill Cup: 2 2000–01, 2014–15 FAI Futsal Cup: 1 2008...
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the inaugural FAI Intermediate Cup. They then completed a cup double by also winning the 1926–27 FAI Cup. In the FAI Intermediate Cup final they defeated...
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Johnny Carey (category Ireland (FAI) men's international footballers)
Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1947 he also captained a Europe XI which played a Great Britain XI at Hampden Park. In 1949 he was voted the...
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won the FAI Intermediate Cup by beating fellow future League of Ireland members Cobh Ramblers 4–2 in the final. UCD appeared in the FAI Cup in the 1930s...
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Westport United F.C. (section FAI Junior Cup winners)
Crystal 2–0 to win the cup. After reaching the FAI Junior Cup semi-finals Westport United also qualified to play in the 2005 FAI Cup. However they were defeated...
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wartime Gold Cup. McCarthy returned to Cork United during the 1946–47 season and was instrumental in leading Cork City to the FAI Cup final against Bohemians...
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the League, FAI Cup and League of Ireland Shield or League Cup). In both 1956–57 and 1959–60 Shamrock Rovers drew with Drumcondra in the final but won the...
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Dundalk F.C. (section First successes (1930–1949))
of 2023, including four League and Cup 'Doubles', and are the only club to have won a league title or an FAI Cup in every decade since the 1930s. They...
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the net. 21 September 1949 Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 51,047 Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland) The Boys in Green - The FAI International Story (1997):...
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award at the 1997 FAI Cup final alongside Fay Coyle. League of Ireland: 2 1946-47, 1952-53 League of Ireland Shield: 2 1945, 1949 "Deaths of two Irish...
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shorts and green socks. League of Ireland: 2 1949–50, 1950–51 FAI Cup: 2 1950–51, 1952–53 Munster Senior Cup: 3 1950–51, 1952–53, 1954–55 Florrie Burke...
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Dalymount Park (section Cup finals)
Irish internationals and FAI Cup finals. It has also hosted UEFA Champions League qualifiers, UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup matches. However, the ground...
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Cork and in Kilkenny. Freebooters (Cork) came runners-up in the FAI Intermediate Cup in 1949 played in the Cork Business and Shipping League, Freebooters(Kilkenny)...
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Transport F.C. (section FAI Cup)
highlight of Transport's time in the League of Ireland was winning the 1949–50 FAI Cup. The team was managed by Matt Giles, an uncle of Johnny Giles. After...
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their way to winning the Munster Senior Cup. In 1949–50 they were also quarter-finalists in the FAI Cup. In the round of sixteen, they took three games...
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the FIFA World Cup and subsequently the European Nations Cup (now the UEFA European Football Championship). FIFA decreed that the FAI team officially...
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Jimmy Kelly (footballer, born 1911) (section FAI XI)
their first team to play in a World Cup qualifier. In 1936 Kelly actually played for both the IFA XI and the FAI XI within the same week and finished...
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