2026Who will win?
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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundalk | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 6/15 | 16-11 |
| St Patrick's | 15 | D1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10/15 | 8-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 12 finished meetings (2005-05-29 – 2026-07-24) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | St Patrick's | 1-1 | Dundalk |
| 2026-05-26 | Dundalk | 0-1 | St Patrick's |
| 2026-04-06 | Dundalk | 2-0 | St Patrick's |
| 2026-02-27 | St Patrick's | 4-0 | Dundalk |
| 2025-10-26 | St Patrick's | 1-2 | Dundalk |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundalk | 4 | 29 | 40 | 1 | DDLLW | 6 | -2 |
| St Patrick's | 2 | 29 | 50 | 20 | DDWWL | 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 2026-09-14
40 points for Dundalk (4th), 50 for St Patrick's (2nd): a 10-point gap. Per game in the league, Dundalk score 1.59 and conceding 1.55, St Patrick's 1.55 and 0.86, against a competition average of 1.38 goals per team per game.
Across 12 recorded meetings, Dundalk have 5 wins to St Patrick's's 5, with 2 draws, at 2.83 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 33% of the meetings went to the host.
Oriel Park stages the fixture, a ground that holds 4,500.
