Wilkinson Sword League Cup | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | ![]() |
Teams | 32 |
Defending champions | Ards |
Final positions | |
Champions | Portadown (1st win) |
Runner-up | Crusaders |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 31 |
Goals scored | 94 (3.03 per match) |
The 1995β96 Irish League Cup (known as the: Wilkinson Sword League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was theββ10th edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 19 September 1995 with the "final."
Ards were the defending champions after their first League Cup win last season; a 2β0 penalty shootout victory over Cliftonville in the previous final. This season they went out in the second roundββto Coleraine, who had been runners-up for the past two seasons. Portadown were the eventual winners, lifting the cup for the first time with a 2β1 victory over Crusaders in the final.
First roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 2β0 | Queen's University |
Armagh City | 2β3 | Crusaders |
Ballyclare Comrades | 0β1 | Banbridge Town |
Carrick Rangers | 1β0 | Cookstown United |
Chimney Corner | 0β1 | Ballymena United |
Cliftonville | 5β0 | Limavady United |
Coleraine | 3β1 | Ballinamallard United |
Distillery | 0β1 | Harland & Wolff Welders |
Dundela | 0β1 | Portadown |
Dungannon Swifts | 1β2 | Bangor |
Glenavon | 5β0 | Moyola Park |
Glentoran | 3β0 | Brantwood |
Larne | 3β0 | Ballymoney United |
Linfield | 6β0 | RUC |
Loughgall | 3β4 (aet) | Omagh Town |
Newry Town | 2β0 | Tobermore United |
Second roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 1β2 | Coleraine |
Ballymena United | 0β4 | Portadown |
Carrick Rangers | 2β0 | Banbridge Town |
Cliftonville | 6β1 | Bangor |
Crusaders | 1β0 | Harland & Wolff Welders |
Glentoran | 0β1 | Linfield |
Larne | 0β1 | Glenavon |
Omagh Town | 3β1 | Newry Town |
Quarter-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Carrick Rangers | 2β6 | Omagh Town |
Cliftonville | 0β0 (0β3 p) | Crusaders |
Coleraine | 0β3 | Glenavon |
Portadown | 0β0 (5β4 p) | Linfield |
Semi-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Crusaders | 3β1 | Omagh Town |
Portadown | 3β0 | Glenavon |
Finalβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "Northern Ireland 1995/96". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "Casey Hits Cup Jackpot". Belfast News Letter. 20 September 1995. p. 32.