2013 League of Ireland Premier Division

The 2013 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 29th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division featured 12 teams. St. Patrick's Athletic were champions, winning their eighth top level League of Ireland title. Dundalk finished as runners-up.

League of Ireland Premier Division

Season	2013
Champions	St. Patrick's Athletic (8th title)
Relegated	Shelbourne
Champions League	St. Patrick's Athletic
Europa League	Dundalk Derry City Sligo Rovers
Setanta Cup	St. Patrick's Athletic Dundalk Sligo Rovers Shamrock Rovers
Matches played	198
Goals scored	523 (2.64 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rory Patterson: 18 (Derry City)^[1]
Highest attendance	4,703 Shamrock Rovers 0–4 St. Patrick's Athletic
Total attendance	307,355
Average attendance	1,552^[2]^[note 1]
← 2012 2014 →

Teams

Stadia and locations

 

 

Bray Wanderes

 

Cork City

 

Derry City

 

Drogheda United

 

Dublin

 

Dundalk FC

 

Limerick FC

 

Sligo Rovers

 

Dublin teams
Bohemians FC
Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne
St Patrick's Athletic
UCD

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Locations of Premier Division teams

 

 

Bohemians

 

St Patrick's Athletic

 

Shamrock Rovers

 

Shelbourne

 

UCD

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Locations of Dublin Premier Division teams

Team	Location	Stadium
Bohemians	Phibsborough	Dalymount Park
Bray Wanderers	Bray	Carlisle Grounds
Cork City	Cork	Turners Cross
Derry City	Derry	Brandywell Stadium
Drogheda United	Drogheda	Hunky Dorys Park
Dundalk	Dundalk	Oriel Park
Limerick	Limerick	Thomond Park
Shamrock Rovers	Tallaght	Tallaght Stadium
Shelbourne	Drumcondra	Tolka Park
Sligo Rovers	Sligo	The Showgrounds
St Patrick's Athletic	Inchicore	Richmond Park
UCD	Belfield	UCD Bowl

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Bohemians	Owen Heary	Owen Heary	Macron	Volkswagen
Bray Wanderers	Pat Devlin	Danny O'Connor	Adidas	Volkswagen
Cork City	Tommy Dunne Stuart Ashton/Paul O Brien	Kevin Murray	Umbro	Clonakilty Blackpudding
Derry City	Declan Devine	Kevin Deery	Umbro	Diamond Corrugated
Drogheda United	Mick Cooke	Derek Prendergast	Nike	Scotch Hall Shopping Center
Dundalk	Stephen Kenny	Stephen O'Donnell	Umbro	Fyffes
Limerick	Stuart Taylor	Joe Gamble	Macron	Greenheat Group
Shamrock Rovers	Trevor Croly	Patrick Sullivan	Umbro	SEAT
Shelbourne	John McDonnell	Ian Ryan	Macron	Volkswagen
Sligo Rovers	Ian Baraclough	Danny Ventre	Umbro	Volkswagen
St Patrick's Athletic	Liam Buckley	Conor Kenna	Umbro	Clune Construction LP
UCD	Martin Russell	Mick Leahy	O'Neills	O'Neills

Overview

The Premier Division featured 12 teams. Each team played each other three times, totalling 33 games. The regular season began on 8 March and concluded on 25 October.^[3] St. Patrick's Athletic clinched the title on 13 October 2013, with two games to go, after a 2–0 win against the holders, Sligo Rovers.^[4][5][6]

Final Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	St Patrick's Athletic (C)	33	21	8	4	56	20	+36	71	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Dundalk	33	21	5	7	55	30	+25	68	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	Sligo Rovers	33	19	9	5	53	22	+31	66
4	Derry City	33	17	5	11	57	39	+18	56
5	Shamrock Rovers	33	13	13	7	43	28	+15	52
6	Cork City	33	13	7	13	47	50	−3	46
7	Limerick	33	11	9	13	38	46	−8	42
8	Drogheda United	33	8	14	11	44	46	−2	38
9	UCD	33	8	6	19	45	73	−28	30
10	Bohemians	33	7	8	18	27	47	−20	29
11	Bray Wanderers (O)	33	7	6	20	33	66	−33	27	Qualification to Relegation play-off
12	Shelbourne (R)	33	5	6	22	25	56	−31	21	Relegation to League of Ireland First Division

Source: ^[7]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated

Results

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	BOH	BRW	COR	DER	DRO	DUN	LIM	SHM	SHE	SLI	StP	UCD
Bohemians	—	3–2	1–2	0–4	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–3	0–2	2–1
Bray Wanderers	1–3	—	1–2	2–3	3–2	0–1	0–4	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2
Cork City	2–1	1–3	—	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–2	2–1
Derry City	2–1	2–0	1–1	—	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	0–1	0–1	2–4
Drogheda United	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–3	—	0–1	2–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–2
Dundalk	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–2	—	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–3
Limerick	2–1	4–4	0–0	0–1	0–1	3–2	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–1
Shamrock Rovers	1–1	7–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Shelbourne	0–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–3	2–1	0–0	—	0–2	0–3	2–0
Sligo Rovers	0–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	—	1–1	5–2
St Patrick's Athletic	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–0	4–0	2–0	—	5–0
UCD	1–0	4–5	3–0	0–6	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–3	0–1	—

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away	BOH	BRW	COR	DER	DRO	DUN	LIM	SHM	SHE	SLI	StP	UCD
Bohemians	—	0–1	—	2–0	—	1–1	—	1–0	—	0–2	—	1–3
Bray Wanderers	—	—	1–2	—	—	0–2	1–0	—	1–1	—	1–3	1–1
Cork City	1–0	—	—	4–1	—	—	—	—	5–3	—	4–2	2–0
Derry City	—	2–0	—	—	0–2	—	6–0	0–0	3–1	1–2	—	—
Drogheda United	1–0	2–0	2–3	—	—	—	3–0	—	—	—	—	1–0
Dundalk	—	—	4–0	3–0	1–0	—	1–2	3–1	—	2–0	—	—
Limerick	1–0	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	1–3
Shamrock Rovers	—	3–0	2–1	—	3–1	—	—	—	—	1–2	0–4	—
Shelbourne	0–3	—	—	—	2–2	1–2	—	1–2	—	—	—	1–2
Sligo Rovers	—	2–0	0–0	—	3–1	—	2–0	—	2–0	—	—	—
St Patrick's Athletic	1–1	—	—	1–1	0–0	2–0	—	—	1–0	2–0	—	—
UCD	—	—	—	1–3	—	0–2	—	1–4	—	0–3	1–3	—

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/relegation play-off

Bray Wanderers, the eleventh placed team from the Premier Division, played off against Longford Town, the winners of the 2013 First Division play off. The winner of this play off would play in the 2014 Premier Division.^[3]

Bray Wanderers v Longford Town

28 October 2013	Bray Wanderers	2–2	Longford Town	Carlisle Grounds
19.45	Jason Byrne   8', 31'	Report	Dean Ebbe   61' David O'Sullivan   83'	Attendance: 900 (estimated) Referee: Graham Kelly

Longford Town v Bray Wanderers

1 November 2013	Longford Town	2–3	Bray Wanderers	City Calling Stadium
19.45	Daniel Purdy   58', 79' Noel Haverty   90+2'	Report	Gary Dempsey   3' Kieran Waters   73' Kevin O'Connor   86' Shane O'Connor   90+2'	Attendance: unknown Referee: Derek Tomney (Dublin)

Bray Wanderers win 5–4 on aggregate and retained their place in the Premier Division.

Goal scorers

Top scorers

Player	Club	Goals
Rory Patterson	Derry City	18 (3 pen.)^[1]
Declan O'Brien	Drogheda United	14 (3 pen.)
Ciarán Kilduff	Cork City	13
Patrick Hoban	Dundalk	13
David McMillan	Sligo Rovers	13 (6 pen.)

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Goals
Rory Patterson	Derry City	University College Dublin	6–0^[8]	15 March 2013	3
Chris Forrester	St Patrick's Athletic	Shelbourne	4–0^[9]	15 April 2013	3
Jason Byrne	Bray Wanderers	Drogheda United	3–2^[10]	24 May 2013	3
Jason Byrne	Bray Wanderers	UCD	5–4^[11]	8 June 2013	4
Patrick Hoban	Dundalk	Bohemians	3–0^[12]	12 July 2013	3
Conan Byrne	St Patrick's Athletic	Shamrock Rovers	4–0^[13]	10 August 2013	4
Danny Morrissey	Cork City	Derry City	4–1^[14]	30 August 2013	3
Richie Towell	Dundalk	Derry City	3–0^[15]	30 September 2013	3
Ciarán Kilduff	Cork City	Shelbourne	5–3^[16]	10 October 2013	4
David McDaid	Derry City	Limerick	6–0^[17]	25 October 2013	3

Awards

Player of the Month

Month	Player	Club
March	Anthony Elding	Sligo Rovers^[18]
April	Barry McNamee	Derry City^[19]
May	Killian Brennan	St Patrick's Athletic^[20]
June	Jason Byrne	Bray Wanderers^[21]
July	Patrick Hoban	Dundalk^[22]
August	Richie Towell	Dundalk^[23]
September	Anthony Flood	St Patrick's Athletic^[24]
October	Ciaran Kilduff	Cork City^[25]
November	Danny North	Sligo Rovers

PFAI Players' Player of the Year

Winner	Club
Killian Brennan	St. Patrick's Athletic

PFAI Young Player of the Year

Winner	Club
Richie Towell	Dundalk

Team of the Year

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Brendan Clarke			St Patrick's Athletic
2	2DF	Ger O'Brien			St Patrick's Athletic
3	2DF	Kenny Browne			St Patrick's Athletic
4	2DF	Andy Boyle			Dundalk
5	2DF	Ian Bermingham			St Patrick's Athletic
6	3MF	Killian Brennan			St Patrick's Athletic
7	3MF	Greg Bolger			St Patrick's Athletic
8	3MF	Daryl Horgan			Cork City
9	3MF	Richie Towell			Dundalk
10	4FW	Patrick Hoban			Dundalk
11	4FW	Rory Patterson			Derry City

^[26]

Television coverage

Live coverage of matches in Ireland were shown on RTÉ Two and Setanta Sports. MNS on RTÉ Two showed match highlights and analysis on each Monday night during the season.

See also

• 2013 League of Ireland First Division
• 2013 League of Ireland Cup

Notes

1. One attendance figure is missing from the 2013 season https://www.researchgate.net/figure/League-of-Ireland-Premier-Division-Attendance_tbl1_286919999

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