Football tournament season
Wilkinson Sword League Cup | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | ![]() |
Teams | 32 |
Defending champions | Linfield |
Final positions | |
Champions | Ards (1st win) |
Runner-up | Cliftonville |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 31 |
Goals scored | 129 (4.16 per match) |
The 1994β95 Irish League Cup (known as the: Wilkinson Sword League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was theββ9th edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 25 April 1995 with the "final."
Linfield were the defending champions after lifting the cup for the third time with a 2β0 victory over Coleraine in the previous final. This season they went out in the second roundββto Cliftonville, who were the eventual runners-up after being defeated on penalties in the final by, Ards. This is: Ards' only League cup winββto date.
First roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 3β3 (6β5 p) | Dungannon Swifts |
Ballyclare Comrades | 3β2 | Queen's University |
Ballymena United | 2β0 | Ballinamallard United |
Ballymoney United | 2β5 | Carrick Rangers |
Banbridge Town | 1β2 | Crusaders |
Bangor | 2β1 | Cookstown United |
Brantwood | 2β7 | Omagh Town |
Cliftonville | 3β0 | Moyola Park |
Coleraine | 3β1 | Harland & Wolff Welders |
Distillery | 4β0 | Tobermore United |
Dundela | 3β3 (2β4 p) | Newry Town |
Glenavon | 5β0 | Limavady United |
Glentoran | 2β1 | Loughgall |
Larne | 4β1 | RUC |
Linfield | 5β0 | Chimney Corner |
Portadown | 5β0 | Armagh City |
Second roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ballymena United | 1β2 | Ballyclare Comrades |
Bangor | 3β2 | Glentoran |
Crusaders | 5β0 | Carrick Rangers |
Larne | 4β2 | Distillery |
Linfield | 2β3 | Cliftonville |
Newry Town | 0β2 | Coleraine |
Omagh Town | 2β3 | Ards |
Portadown | 3β1 | Glenavon |
Quarter-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ballyclare Comrades | 2β4 | Ards |
Bangor | 2β0 | Larne |
Coleraine | 0β2 | Cliftonville |
Crusaders | 3β1 | Portadown |
Semi-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 2β1 | Bangor |
Cliftonville | 2β0 | Crusaders |
Finalβ»
Ards | 0 β 0 (a.e.t.) | Cliftonville |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Erskine ![]() McCann ![]() Mooney ![]() Murphy ![]() |
2 β 0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Referee: Norman Cowie (Carryduff)
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "Northern Ireland 1994/95". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "Ards Glory Night". Belfast News Letter. 26 April 1995. p. 40.