As a supporter of shamrock rovers I wanna say thank you for making this video, the more shine put on the league is a great thing to see as the league is very entertaining and has great quality which can be seen with how well Rovers are doing in Europe
as a Welsh premier league fan, I love seeing the league of Ireland doing well, I'd like it if Wales switched to summer league too but I don't think it's gonna happen. it was a good game between shamrock and tns the other night 🏴🇮🇪
Just a quick fact, I'm a Sligo Rovers supporter as it's my hometown. However, my Mum's Uncle was one of the original founding members of Shelbourne (the team that just won the league) and her gran-aunt was the first Female chairperson in world football when her and her husband used to own Shamrock Rovers (the team who came 2nd) 😅⚽🇮🇪
Thanks a lot for this video. I started following the Irish league after German football magazine 11 Freunde covered the very unusual career of Leon Pöhls last year. Leon is the GK at Shamrock Rovers and has won 4 league titles with them since he joined. He's mostly been playing as substitute, first as a third, then as a second GK; and only in 2024 was promoted as the first GK after veteran GK Alan Mannus retired. Now replacing a GK that has won ~20 titles in his career and made 9 appearances for the NI national team was going to be a challenge for Leon but I think he did well overall. Maybe we'll see him in a higher ranked league very soon. He's also elegible for the Bosnian national team, as his mother comes from there. He's also done a few great saves already in the Conference League. Excited to see more of him and of the Rovers in general
Haha shush. 25/1 odds to win the league and we still did it. Doesn't matter how you do it, my beloved Shels are champions for a reason and everyone's salty for it. Funny video but better research would be nice next time. Wasn't Harry Wood's first goal for Shelbourne, signed for us on loan last year from Hull and scored a few. Only his first goal this season after signing full time for us. SFC FTA 1895
As a fan of other sports which have salary caps and other equity measures, I think this is great to see. In no other league in the world would you see such a tight title race
it's great that you've made a video about the LOI. the irish league and the Welsh league both face simmilar challenges, both have to compete with other sports (rugby/gaa) and both have to compete with the English leagues. it'd be cool if you did a video abouth the Welsh league because we actually have a half decent title fight this year, and the league's champions are in the uecl.
The Welsh League is poor. Usually a TNS walk to the title. Connahs Quay mixed it up a wee bit but overall it os poor. Sad to see but hard with the behemoth that is the Premier League on its doorstep.
Apparently the previous owners (Statsports) took 1.7 million out of the club whenever they sold the club in November 2023 leaving us in the mess we’re in
as a derry fan we know that we are bottlers 😔 we had the team to win everything but all the fans would agree the manager needs sacked this is the 3rd season in a row we bottled the title and im just back from the cup final we lost to drogheda in a relegation playoff next week 😭 so embarrassing
As a Sligo Rovers fan, I feel I have to add some context for the horrible goal difference. There was a controversial game earlier in the season where we were beaten 3-2 by Pats because of 2 very soft penalty calls. Our manager got a red card after the 2nd penalty for complaining and the FAI, despite acknowledging the refs poor performance, decided to uphold the 3 match ban from the red card. (Interesting side note the Sham's manager only got 1 match for calling another ref the "worst in the league" in a public press conference). We had been on good form until then, but during that ban we had a bit of a meltdown, losing 2 very winnable games, one of them a 7-0 to Drogheda
Correction: That was Harry Wood's first goal for Shels in this stint. He was with us on loan from Hull for 4 months at the end of last season, helping us into Europe for the first time since 2006. He returned to Hull after the loan finished and was sent to Grimsby where he didn't make much of an impact after a debut goal. And he signed for Shels permanently his summer after Hull wanted rid of him. Now he's a League of Ireland Champion with that goal sealing his name in Shels history and he's going to play Champions League football next season.
As a Sherbourne fan, we did fall off a cliff because we lost our best goal scorer mid season. Our really strong start and last 3 games was what won the league and deservedly so. The quality gap from first to last are a lot closer than most leagues.
minor pronunciation corrections i am compelled to give: sligo is sly-go shelbourne is shell-burn the shels collapse was crazy i am glad they ultimately saw it out
"The Irish League" is the name given to the League operated by the Irish Football Association, operating in Northern Ireland. The Football Association of Ireland broke away from the IFA when teams in Belfast were given undue prominence in the 1920s. So it's "League of Ireland", not "Irish League".
FWIW teams from the League of Ireland might be amongst the worst ranked in FC25, but the League is currently somewhere around spots 30-35 in the UEFA coefficient out of 55 ranked countries. Might even enter the top 30 if the Rovers continue their excelllent current run
The league of Ireland is absolutely shit, not because of the players though but because of THE FAI's mishandling of the league. And with the Premier league no longer bringing Irish players through the ranks into the first team, there is no doubt our international team will suffer for years until we learn to have a proper competitive league of our own.
@@elguaje7.the reason our league doesn’t make money is (A) the fai don’t give a shit about football in this country and (B) because lots of people in Ireland would rather go to their pub and watch the likes of Liverpool,Celtic Man Utd etc instead of popping down to their local and watching a game another big deal is some counties in Ireland don’t have their own clubs doesn’t help the league out either
League was brilliant this year . Super competitive with all 10 clubs taking points off each other . Was getting impossible to predict. Shels put a solid run together early in the season. Pats and Rovers got their runs late on but Shels held out to Win it . League was actually a 2 horse race for the longest time but then 1 of them horses fell and finished 4th
I’m a Dundalk man, was at a lot of games this season. A mix of bag upper management and Steven o donnell staying waay to long along with other factors led to our embarrassing relegation
first off, its sly-go, not slee go, shelbourne is more like shell-burn than shell-born also i dont see what the point is in talking down the league for a team being able to win despite a bad period of time, its more interesting to never know who is gonna win and having a league that is close, and i say that as a shamrock rovers fan who won the league every year since 2020 until now, i'd rather that than be in france with psg winning every year
Derry finished 4th in a 2 horse race, got knocked out of Europe to a pub team from Gibraltar, lost the cup final and didn't qualify for Europe, despite having one of the best squads in the league on paper.
Great informative video, im not ome for English style humor. That "Who wouldve knowm you need to wim to climb the table" Just sounds dumb. "Who wouldve known getting a draw over your oppenent guruntees at least 1 point"
“The Irish Premier League is insaneLY BAD.” 😂 Imo LOI provides terrible quality of footie - who cares how tight the league title is, when all teams are mid and it’s luck and potential bribes that decide the faith. Irish football is just a mix of shoving GAA, Rugby tackling and kicking the ball upfield to win 50/50s ZERO skills, zero creativity - no passion 😂
Always hilarious when LoI teams get into European competition proper stages, they make a pile of money, and then you know they'll be in administration and getting relegated within 5 years. Daft league, it should be ran as franchises with a salary cap and draft to stop them wasting the money they don't have.
@@úsáideoir Do you mean like when they reached the Europa League group stages, made a ton of money, sold that lad to Villa and had a war chest but couldnt win the league for another ten years? Or like when Shels almost made the CL proper in the 00's and then collapsed for 20 years? Which example is better? What happed to Cork City? And is that GUST not Galway United? They're all awful.
What are you comparing it too? The Premier League, the literal richest league in the world that can buy anyone they want with all the corporate billiona the clubs have. The top clubs of England do not represent the majority of modern football- there are multiple levels to this game, and maybe you should be a bit more open minded rather than putting down something that has been trying to improve for such a long time.
@eireraid9816 no not the EPL but probably 8 other leagues in Europe are a better watch. I'm giving my opinion just like you. What am I supposed to do pretend I don't have this opinion. I think you need to open your mind and accept different opinions mate
@@eireraid9816 Irish here, the leagues football is of abysmal quality, can confirm and thats by ANY nations Standard. All the talent goes to the UK & EU. Cant compete with Irish Sports like Gaelic Football so no crowds, no money , no talent retention or development and that goes for managers too for the most part.
@@devanman7920 I didn't ask you to not give your opinion - I'm challenging your view with my viewpoint mate, I'm posing the question that we live in a world of where there is more to football than the mega rich super leagues that have infinite amounts of money to throw around. I hear people like you give that same regurgitated opinion on Irish football but never look at the greater context of the situation at hand.
As a supporter of shamrock rovers I wanna say thank you for making this video, the more shine put on the league is a great thing to see as the league is very entertaining and has great quality which can be seen with how well Rovers are doing in Europe
as a Welsh premier league fan, I love seeing the league of Ireland doing well, I'd like it if Wales switched to summer league too but I don't think it's gonna happen. it was a good game between shamrock and tns the other night 🏴🇮🇪
@ agreed, I wish the welsh league well for the future
@@ifan_1234I'm rooting for the Welsh League to do well in the next few years and outshine their richer EFL brothers.
As a Shelbourne fan L+ratio
@ 🔥🔥
Pronounced Sly-go, not slee-go
The Y making its own sound like "Sly" Cooper, or the Y sounding like the I in "Ick"
@@internetgodlilbihhSly as in Sly
or shh-lie-go
@@internetgodlilbihh the 1st one
@@creedjack96 don't forget the part where you hold the "lie" for half the sentence
Sorry to hear that about Dundalk....I liked watching them play in Europa League before:)
Drogheda United won the FAI Cup and have qualified for the UEFA Conference League
Niran would have won the league with Derry City if it wasn't for his devastating knee injury
Nah hes would done better and won the treble for them
is this a crossover comment?
@@un6505 yes
It has transcended youtube.
He’d keep Dundalk up if it wasn’t for taht crippling knee injury
Just a quick fact, I'm a Sligo Rovers supporter as it's my hometown. However, my Mum's Uncle was one of the original founding members of Shelbourne (the team that just won the league) and her gran-aunt was the first Female chairperson in world football when her and her husband used to own Shamrock Rovers (the team who came 2nd) 😅⚽🇮🇪
We got Damien Duff winning the league as a manager before GTA 6💀
Get a life
Dan....I love ya man. I appreciate the video too, so much, but....it's "Sly Go" Rovers not "Slee Go" 😂.
I was thinking we were one of the easier teams to pronounce 😂
Great video but it’s “Shelbirn” 😄
Thanks a lot for this video. I started following the Irish league after German football magazine 11 Freunde covered the very unusual career of Leon Pöhls last year. Leon is the GK at Shamrock Rovers and has won 4 league titles with them since he joined. He's mostly been playing as substitute, first as a third, then as a second GK; and only in 2024 was promoted as the first GK after veteran GK Alan Mannus retired. Now replacing a GK that has won ~20 titles in his career and made 9 appearances for the NI national team was going to be a challenge for Leon but I think he did well overall. Maybe we'll see him in a higher ranked league very soon. He's also elegible for the Bosnian national team, as his mother comes from there. He's also done a few great saves already in the Conference League. Excited to see more of him and of the Rovers in general
Haha shush. 25/1 odds to win the league and we still did it. Doesn't matter how you do it, my beloved Shels are champions for a reason and everyone's salty for it. Funny video but better research would be nice next time. Wasn't Harry Wood's first goal for Shelbourne, signed for us on loan last year from Hull and scored a few. Only his first goal this season after signing full time for us. SFC FTA 1895
Shelbourne top of the league🎶🎶🎶
As a fan of other sports which have salary caps and other equity measures, I think this is great to see. In no other league in the world would you see such a tight title race
it's great that you've made a video about the LOI. the irish league and the Welsh league both face simmilar challenges, both have to compete with other sports (rugby/gaa) and both have to compete with the English leagues. it'd be cool if you did a video abouth the Welsh league because we actually have a half decent title fight this year, and the league's champions are in the uecl.
The Welsh League is poor. Usually a TNS walk to the title. Connahs Quay mixed it up a wee bit but overall it os poor. Sad to see but hard with the behemoth that is the Premier League on its doorstep.
The difference is that most of the Irish club rugby is on late autumn to mid spring
Apparently the previous owners (Statsports) took 1.7 million out of the club whenever they sold the club in November 2023 leaving us in the mess we’re in
You could've added Waterford after we fecked up UECL spots
as an avid league of league thanks for covering the league. the way you pronounce sligo is funny. you got my subscription
as a derry fan we know that we are bottlers 😔 we had the team to win everything but all the fans would agree the manager needs sacked this is the 3rd season in a row we bottled the title and im just back from the cup final we lost to drogheda in a relegation playoff next week 😭 so embarrassing
As a Sligo Rovers fan, I feel I have to add some context for the horrible goal difference. There was a controversial game earlier in the season where we were beaten 3-2 by Pats because of 2 very soft penalty calls. Our manager got a red card after the 2nd penalty for complaining and the FAI, despite acknowledging the refs poor performance, decided to uphold the 3 match ban from the red card. (Interesting side note the Sham's manager only got 1 match for calling another ref the "worst in the league" in a public press conference). We had been on good form until then, but during that ban we had a bit of a meltdown, losing 2 very winnable games, one of them a 7-0 to Drogheda
Correction: That was Harry Wood's first goal for Shels in this stint. He was with us on loan from Hull for 4 months at the end of last season, helping us into Europe for the first time since 2006. He returned to Hull after the loan finished and was sent to Grimsby where he didn't make much of an impact after a debut goal. And he signed for Shels permanently his summer after Hull wanted rid of him. Now he's a League of Ireland Champion with that goal sealing his name in Shels history and he's going to play Champions League football next season.
Shamrock Rovers are often called Rovers for short, not Shamrock. Great analysis though
Sligo fans disagree 😂, most call them Shams for short
As a Sherbourne fan, we did fall off a cliff because we lost our best goal scorer mid season. Our really strong start and last 3 games was what won the league and deservedly so. The quality gap from first to last are a lot closer than most leagues.
Derry never got away from anything Scotts free
minor pronunciation corrections i am compelled to give:
sligo is sly-go
shelbourne is shell-burn
the shels collapse was crazy i am glad they ultimately saw it out
As a Bohs fan I'm glad we didn't get a mention.
A year to forget for sure. Mon the bohs
Murdered almost every name in this video
"The Irish League" is the name given to the League operated by the Irish Football Association, operating in Northern Ireland.
The Football Association of Ireland broke away from the IFA when teams in Belfast were given undue prominence in the 1920s.
So it's "League of Ireland", not "Irish League".
The lowest ranked leagues are the most fun and equal playgrounds to compete in football games. The struggle is real.
FWIW teams from the League of Ireland might be amongst the worst ranked in FC25, but the League is currently somewhere around spots 30-35 in the UEFA coefficient out of 55 ranked countries. Might even enter the top 30 if the Rovers continue their excelllent current run
The league of Ireland is absolutely shit, not because of the players though but because of THE FAI's mishandling of the league. And with the Premier league no longer bringing Irish players through the ranks into the first team, there is no doubt our international team will suffer for years until we learn to have a proper competitive league of our own.
If it don’t make dollars it don’t make sense
@@elguaje7.the reason our league doesn’t make money is (A) the fai don’t give a shit about football in this country and (B) because lots of people in Ireland would rather go to their pub and watch the likes of Liverpool,Celtic Man Utd etc instead of popping down to their local and watching a game another big deal is some counties in Ireland don’t have their own clubs doesn’t help the league out either
@@DylanJenno why don’t the fai give a shit? Is it because they’re under resourced?
League was brilliant this year . Super competitive with all 10 clubs taking points off each other . Was getting impossible to predict.
Shels put a solid run together early in the season.
Pats and Rovers got their runs late on but Shels held out to Win it .
League was actually a 2 horse race for the longest time but then 1 of them horses fell and finished 4th
class video!
(its pronounced "Dundawk")
Thanks for talking about the irish league
I’m a Dundalk man, was at a lot of games this season. A mix of bag upper management and Steven o donnell staying waay to long along with other factors led to our embarrassing relegation
You forgot to include that St. Pat's got a new manager half way through the season which really improved things
first off, its sly-go, not slee go, shelbourne is more like shell-burn than shell-born
also i dont see what the point is in talking down the league for a team being able to win despite a bad period of time, its more interesting to never know who is gonna win and having a league that is close, and i say that as a shamrock rovers fan who won the league every year since 2020 until now, i'd rather that than be in france with psg winning every year
The problem is the lack of interest of the league outside RoI
And inside ROI
I'd like to watch it but there's not manu options outside of roi
@@pinitxopopremier sports has a deal with league of Ireland for next season so it should be easier to view outside Ireland
Most football fans in Ireland couldn't care less about the LOI unfortunately
I’m a Dundalk season ticket holder and I can’t believe how bad we were this season. And drogheda just won the cup.
It wasn’t Harry woods first goal for the club.
Derry finished 4th in a 2 horse race, got knocked out of Europe to a pub team from Gibraltar, lost the cup final and didn't qualify for Europe, despite having one of the best squads in the league on paper.
Sligo play surprisingly beautiful football.
Yup the Saints, 9 wins in a row. Finished in 3rd, secured european football next season
Shamrock rovers and Derry city have a monopoly on all the best players in the league
It's pronounced shell burn not shell bourne
Anyone who has read Champagne football will know that Dundalk did not see any prize money.
FAI is deeply incompetent compared to the GAA and IRFU.
every american is a gormless arsenal fan
god give me strength
Drogheda have won the cup so they could be in the first division while playing in europe
Is that Roman Eremenko's Finland national team shirt back there?
Ye
Not a patch on his brother Alexi
Plz watch the South African 🇿🇦 league 🙏🏾🙏🏾😭😭 I the it’s gonna be interesting this season 😭
Hahahahaha Dundalk are shite up d Drogs fai cup champions 🟣🔵🟣🔵
Who’s going to the FAI Cup Final👇👇
Forza Shels
Great informative video, im not ome for English style humor. That "Who wouldve knowm you need to wim to climb the table" Just sounds dumb. "Who wouldve known getting a draw over your oppenent guruntees at least 1 point"
The pronunciations 🤣🤣🤣
YUP BOHS
Slego? The third letter isn’t e, it’s i
Btw Sligo rovers is pronounced sly-go rovers
Dundalk FC 😔
Slee go😭
“The Irish Premier League is insaneLY BAD.” 😂
Imo LOI provides terrible quality of footie - who cares how tight the league title is, when all teams are mid and it’s luck and potential bribes that decide the faith.
Irish football is just a mix of shoving GAA, Rugby tackling and kicking the ball upfield to win 50/50s
ZERO skills, zero creativity - no passion 😂
LOI is the greatest league in the world pal. keep crying.
Who are Sleego?
MLS PLAYOFFS
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It's our fourth sport haha
Hon galway ❤️❤️❤
Gaillimh Abú
I like Galway because I've noticed that there's a Wales flag at their home games lol
Kenny out.
The crowds are worst
they've certainly improved
Always hilarious when LoI teams get into European competition proper stages, they make a pile of money, and then you know they'll be in administration and getting relegated within 5 years. Daft league, it should be ran as franchises with a salary cap and draft to stop them wasting the money they don't have.
That’s only Dundalk, rovers know how to spend their money properly
@@úsáideoir Do you mean like when they reached the Europa League group stages, made a ton of money, sold that lad to Villa and had a war chest but couldnt win the league for another ten years? Or like when Shels almost made the CL proper in the 00's and then collapsed for 20 years? Which example is better? What happed to Cork City? And is that GUST not Galway United? They're all awful.
@@jibathus Jesus u seem to know a lot for an ‘awful league’ hahahaha
@@úsáideoir I live here. I know all about the Sunday men's leagues too.
@ there’s no way you’re Irish 🤣 so you’d rather bash the league instead of getting behind it and supporting it? Nice talking to u ya west brit 👍
Its just soooooo crap though. I'm Irish, the standard is desperate.
What are you comparing it too? The Premier League, the literal richest league in the world that can buy anyone they want with all the corporate billiona the clubs have. The top clubs of England do not represent the majority of modern football- there are multiple levels to this game, and maybe you should be a bit more open minded rather than putting down something that has been trying to improve for such a long time.
@eireraid9816 no not the EPL but probably 8 other leagues in Europe are a better watch. I'm giving my opinion just like you. What am I supposed to do pretend I don't have this opinion. I think you need to open your mind and accept different opinions mate
@@eireraid9816 Irish here, the leagues football is of abysmal quality, can confirm and thats by ANY nations Standard. All the talent goes to the UK & EU. Cant compete with Irish Sports like Gaelic Football so no crowds, no money , no talent retention or development and that goes for managers too for the most part.
@@devanman7920 I didn't ask you to not give your opinion - I'm challenging your view with my viewpoint mate, I'm posing the question that we live in a world of where there is more to football than the mega rich super leagues that have infinite amounts of money to throw around. I hear people like you give that same regurgitated opinion on Irish football but never look at the greater context of the situation at hand.
I find loi a good watch.
You butchered Sligo Rovers name 😂