2026Who will win?
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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sligo Rovers | 15 | L2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4/15 | 4-8 |
| Dundalk | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 6/15 | 16-11 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 14 finished meetings (2005-04-01 – 2026-07-31) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | Dundalk | 1-1 | Sligo Rovers |
| 2026-03-16 | Dundalk | 1-0 | Sligo Rovers |
| 2025-07-18 | Dundalk | 0-2 | Sligo Rovers |
| 2024-09-21 | Sligo Rovers | 2-1 | Dundalk |
| 2024-06-13 | Dundalk | 1-0 | Sligo Rovers |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sligo Rovers | 10 | 29 | 23 | -25 | DDLDL | 9 | +1 |
| Dundalk | 4 | 29 | 40 | 1 | DDLLW | 6 | -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 2026-10-17
17 points separate the sides: Dundalk 4th on 40, Sligo Rovers 10th on 23. Scoring rates set the scale: Sligo Rovers 0.79 scored and 1.66 conceded per game, Dundalk 1.59 and 1.55, with the league averaging 1.38.
The head-to-head ledger counts 14 games: 5 Sligo Rovers wins, 7 for Dundalk, 2 draws, at 2.5 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 64% of the meetings.
The Showgrounds in Sligo, capacity 5,500, hosts the game.
