- Setanta Sports Cup 2007
The Setanta Sports Cup 2007 is the 3rd staging of the cross-border cup competition that takes place between football clubs from the
Republic of Ireland andNorthern Ireland . The final is scheduled to be played atWindsor Park inBelfast ,Northern Ireland on12 May 2007 , and will be contested by Drogheda United and Linfield, the only two sides to have previously won the competition.helbourne's withdrawal
The draw for the 2007
Setanta Cup competition was made on7 December ,2006 with the original competing teams being the identical ones to the previous year's competition. On30 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 2006FAI 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, wereSligo Rovers . While it is likely that the organisers transferred Derry, who finished second in the league, into Shelbourne's empty slot, first in the league, for the purpose of official qualification and then accorded St Pat's qualification by way of the FAI Cup, this would have logically entailed Derry moving into Group 2 to fill Shelbourne's place, while St. Patrick's should compete in Group 1 in the place of the moved Derry. Fact|date=February 2007 However, it is possible that for the purposes of the initial draw, teams were accorded lots on an alphabetical basis.Fact|date=February 2007 Thus, it would follow that St. Patrick's would have been assigned the same lot as Shelbourne and would have, as a result, been drawn in the same slot anyway.Fact|date=February 2007Group stage
:"The draw for this round was held
7 December ,2006 . The matches were played26 February -17 April 2007 .Tie-breaking criteria
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:
Teams that progressed to the Semi-Finals are indicated in bold type.
Teams eliminated from the Setanta Cup are indicated in "italics".
Group A
Top scorers
External links
* [http://ie.setanta.com/portal/systemcontent/setantasportscup07 Official Setanta Cup Site]
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