2026Who will win?
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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shamrock Rovers | 15 | D2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5/15 | 9-13 |
| Sligo Rovers | 15 | L2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4/15 | 4-8 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 17 finished meetings (2013-07-27 – 2026-07-03) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | Sligo Rovers | 1-2 | Shamrock Rovers |
| 2026-05-22 | Shamrock Rovers | 1-2 | Sligo Rovers |
| 2026-03-13 | Sligo Rovers | 0-2 | Shamrock Rovers |
| 2025-11-01 | Shamrock Rovers | 1-2 | Sligo Rovers |
| 2025-07-05 | Sligo Rovers | 2-2 | Shamrock Rovers |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shamrock Rovers | 1 | 29 | 56 | 19 | WDWDD | 3 | -2 |
| Sligo Rovers | 10 | 29 | 23 | -25 | DDLDL | 9 | +1 |
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 2026-10-23
On the table this is a mismatch: Shamrock Rovers (1st, 56 pts) hold a 33-point advantage over Sligo Rovers (10th, 23 pts). In league terms the two rates read 1.59/0.93 for Shamrock Rovers and 0.79/1.66 for Sligo Rovers (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.38.
17 meetings are on record — 8 won by Shamrock Rovers, 4 by Sligo Rovers, 5 drawn, at 2.82 goals per meeting.
The venue is Waterford Regional Sports Centre in Dublin, with room for 5,500 spectators.
