The League of Ireland is poised for a historic 2025 season, with Shamrock Rovers' European run and a landmark Dublin derby at the Aviva Stadium set to attract record crowds.
Has there ever been a more eagerly-anticipated League of Ireland campaign? We head into 2025 knowing for certain that history will be made on a number of fronts, and believing the record books can be rewritten elsewhere too. For the first time since the birth of European club football, an Irish outfit is still involved post-Christmas, with Shamrock Rovers set for a February Europa Conference League knockout clash with Molde.
Despite their 2022 home and away defeats to the Norwegians, the Hoops will fancy their chances of making the last-16 and adding to their unprecedented €6.5m earnings to date. In between the away and home legs, Rovers will be involved in another big first for the League of Ireland - a Dublin derby against Bohemians at the Aviva Stadium. Interest in that one is expected to be huge, with the two cross-city rivals kicking off their campaigns in a fixture unparalleled in the Irish game. That game, taking place in a 50,000-capacity stadium, could be the perfect platform to set more records in 2025. Attendances The 2024 season saw attendances at games involving League of Ireland clubs hit one million-plus for the first time ever. In total, 1,001,630 fans walked through turnstiles up and down the land to watch games in the men's Premier Division and First Division, women’s Premier Division, men's and women's FAI Cups, the All-Island Cup and in Europe. The pressure is now on to beat that number and keep the interest in the game here growing. Dalymount farewell If all goes to plan, 2025 will be the last season for the historic Dalymount Park as we know it. That fact alone should be enough to guarantee full houses every other weeken
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