| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin City | 15 | D2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11/15 | 11-5 |
| Dundalk | 10 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4/15 | 7-10 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2005-04-04 – 2005-08-05) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-05 | Dundalk | 2-3 | Dublin City |
| 2005-06-05 | Dublin City | 2-3 | Dundalk |
| 2005-04-04 | Dundalk | 0-0 | Dublin City |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin City | 2 | 36 | 59 | 23 | LDWWW | 3 | -1 |
| Dundalk | 6 | 36 | 49 | 4 | DDDDW | 4 | +2 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2005-10-14
59 points for Dublin City (2nd), 49 for Dundalk (6th): a 10-point gap. Per game in the league, Dublin City were scoring 1.58 and conceding 0.94, Dundalk 1.22 and 1.11, against a competition average of 1.19 goals per team per game.
Dublin City's unbeaten run stood at 6, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 11/15 points for Dublin City against 4/15 for Dundalk.
Tolka Park in Dublin, capacity 9,700, hosted the game.
