Shamrock Rovers F.C.

Shamrock Rovers Football Club
(Irish: Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige)
Full name	Shamrock Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Hoops, Rovers
Founded	1901
Ground	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin; (capacity: 6000)
Chairman	Jonathan Roche
Manager	Stephen Bradley
League	League of Ireland Premier Division
2025	Champions
Website	Club home page
	Current season

Shamrock Rovers Football Club (Irish: Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is a football club from Dublin, Ireland. They play in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club is the most successful in Ireland's football history.

History

The club was founded in 1901 and is named after Shamrock Avenue in Dublin, the place where the club was founded. They started playing friendly matches. In 1904/05 they began to play in a league. From 1907 till 1914 they were not allowed to play because they had no home ground. In 1921 they missed the founding of the league of Ireland, but the next season they played in this league and won the title. The next decades the Rovers were very successful. In 1967, they played as Boston Rovers one season in the United Soccer Association in the USA.

In 1987 Glenmalure Park, the home ground was sold by the club owners as building area. The club started to build a new stadium in Dublins suburb Tallaght but came into financial troubles. The County South Dublin finished the construction in 2009 and so the Rovers have a new homeground. During the troubles the club was also relegated to the first division of the League of Ireland in 2005 but in 2007 they won and were again promoted to the Premier Division.

Through a 2:1 after extra time against (home 1:1) the Rovers are qualified for the UEFA-Europa League group stage 2011/12. They will play in group A versus Tottenham Hotspur, Rubin Kasan and PAOK Saloniki.

Current squad

All players used during the season:

No.		Position	Player
1	GK	Jamaica	Richard Brush
2	DF	[[\|Ireland]]	Patrick Sullivan
3	DF	[[\|Ireland]]	Enda Stevens
4	DF	Scotland	Craig Sives
5	DF	England	Dan Murray (Captain)
6	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Stephen Rice
7	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Gary McCabe
8	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Stephen O'Donnell
9	FW	Scotland	Gary Twigg
10	FW	[[\|Ireland]]	Karl Sheppard
11	FW	[[\|Ireland]]	Ciarán Kilduff

No.		Position	Player
13	DF	[[\|Ireland]]	Pat Flynn
14	FW	[[\|Ireland]]	Dean Kelly
15	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Paddy Kavanagh
16	GK	England	Ryan Thompson
17	DF	[[\|Ireland]]	Ken Oman
18	MF	Northern Ireland	Chris Turner
19	FW	[[\|Ireland]]	Gary O'Neill
20	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Billy Dennehy
21	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Ronan Finn
22	MF	[[\|Ireland]]	Conor McCormack
23	DF	[[\|Ireland]]	Mick Doyle

Staff

Coach: Stephen Bradley
Assistant Coach: Trevor Croly
Goalkeeping Coach: Tim Dalton
Physiotherapist: Richard Walker

Honours

National titles

Shamrock Rovers F.C. Media

Chart of yearly table positions for Shamrock Rovers in League of Ireland
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Barry Murphy holding the eircom league first division trophy, Nov 2006

League of Ireland: 22 (record)

- 1922–23, 1924–25, 1926–27, 1931–32, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1963–64
  1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1993–94, 2010, 2011, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
FAI Cup: 25 (record)
- 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966,
  1967, 1968, 1969, 1978, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2019
League of Ireland Shield: 18 (record)
- 1924–25, 1926–27, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1954–55, 1955–56,
  1956–57, 1957–58, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68.
League of Ireland Cup: 1
- 1976–77
League of Ireland First Division: 1
- 2006
Setanta Sports Cup: 1
- 2011

Other websites

Official homepage