Football tournament season
Roadferry Freight League Cup | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | ![]() |
Teams | 32 |
Defending champions | Linfield |
Final positions | |
Champions | Coleraine (1st win) |
Runner-up | Portadown |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 31 |
Goals scored | 98 (3.16 per match) |
The 1987β88 Irish League Cup (known as the: Roadferry Freight League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was theββ2nd edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 28 November 1987 with the "final."
Linfield were the defending champions after becoming the first ever winners of the competition the previous season by, defeating Crusaders 2β1 in the final. This season they reached the semi-finals, but went outββto eventual winners Coleraine, who won the cup with a 1β0 victory over Portadown in the final.
First roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 2β0 | Tobermore United |
Ballyclare Comrades | 0β2 | Glenavon |
Ballymena United | 3β1 | Brantwood |
Bangor | 4β1 | UUJ |
Carrick Rangers | 1β0 | Banbridge Town |
Cliftonville | 0β1 | Chimney Corner |
Coleraine | 6β0 | Queen's University |
Crusaders | 2β0 | Harland & Wolff Welders |
Distillery | 2β0 | Omagh Town |
Glentoran | 3β0 | RUC |
Glentoran II | 3β1 (aet) | Limavady United |
Larne | 2β1 | Dungannon Swifts |
Linfield | 7β0 | UUC |
Linfield Swifts | 1β0 | Ballymoney United |
Newry Town | 2β1 | Dundela |
Portadown | 2β0 | Milford Everton |
Second roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Bangor | 2β3 | Ballymena United |
Carrick Rangers | 0β4 | Coleraine |
Distillery | 0β1 (aet) | Ards |
Glentoran | 5β0 | Glenavon |
Larne | 2β0 | Glentoran II |
Linfield | 2β1 | Chimney Corner |
Newry Town | 1β1 (4β2 p) | Linfield Swifts |
Portadown | 5β0 | Crusaders |
Quarter-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 1β1 (4β5 p) | Coleraine |
Larne | 3β2 | Ballymena United |
Linfield | 2β1 (aet) | Newry Town |
Portadown | 4β1 | Glentoran |
Semi-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Linfield | 0β0 (3β4 p) | Coleraine |
Portadown | 4β3 | Larne |
Finalβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- ^ "Northern Ireland 1987/88". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 20 December 2012.