2007 Setanta Sports Cup
Tournament details
Country Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland
Teams8
Defending championsDrogheda United
Final positions
ChampionsDrogheda United (2nd title)
Runner-upLinfield
Tournament statistics
Matches played27
Goals scored67 (2.48 per match)

The 2007 Setanta Sports Cup was the 3rd staging of the Setanta Sports Cup, a cross-border cup competition that took 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.

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. Northern Ireland Linfield 633085+312
2. Republic of Ireland Drogheda Utd 632152+311
3. Republic of Ireland Derry City 612368-25
4. Northern Ireland Glentoran 611448-44
Drogheda United0 – 1Linfield
(Report) O'Kane 29'
Glentoran0 – 1Derry City
(Report) McHugh 85'
Attendance: 2,728
Referee: Northern Ireland Alan Black
Linfield1 – 1Glentoran
Stewart 21'
Gault Red card 90+'		 (Report) Hill 31'
Neill Red card 90+'
Referee: Republic of Ireland Ian Stokes
Glentoran0 – 1Drogheda United
(Report) O'Keeffe 48'
Linfield2 – 1Derry City
Dickson 20'
Kearney 45 pen'
Lindsay Red card 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 Red card 35'
Derry City1 – 2Glentoran
Brennan 16' (Report) McMenamin 54'
McDonagh 87'
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. Republic of Ireland St Patrick's Athletic 6510173+1416
2. Republic of Ireland Cork City 6312145+910
3. Northern Ireland Dungannon Swifts 6042612-64
4. Northern Ireland Portadown 6024320-172
Dungannon Swifts0 – 0Cork City
(Report)
Referee: Northern Ireland Frankie Hiles
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'
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)
St Patrick's Athletic1 – 0Cork City
Maguire 27' (Report)
Referee: Northern Ireland Mark Courtney
Cork City2 – 1Dungannon Swifts
O'Brien 4'
Behan 35'		 (Report) McCabe 64'
Wells Red card 81'
Referee: Republic of Ireland Declan Hanney

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 Northern Ireland
Linfield1 – 0Cork City
O'Kane 85' (Report)
Attendance: 2,647
Referee: Ian Stokes Republic of Ireland

Final

Linfield1 – 1 (AET)Drogheda United
McAreavey 67' (Report) Lynch soccer ball with red X 56'
Grant 77'
Penalties
Ervin soccer ball with check mark
Mouncey soccer ball with check mark
Ferguson soccer ball with check mark
Dickson soccer ball with red X
O'Kane soccer ball with red X		 3 – 4 soccer ball with red X Lynch
soccer ball with check mark Grant
soccer ball with check mark Bradley
soccer ball with check mark Robinson
soccer ball with check mark Byrne
Referee: Northern Ireland Adrian McCourt


Winner of 2007 Setanta Sports Cup
Republic of Ireland Drogheda United
2nd Title

Goalscorers

5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
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