2021 Dundalk F.C. season

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Dundalk
2021 season
Team Manager Shane Keegan (until 17 April)
Jim Magilton (Interim from 19 April)
Vinny Perth (from 16 June)
Premier Division 6th
FAI Cup Semi final
President's Cup Winners
Conference League QR3
Top goalscorer League: Patrick Hoban (12)
All: Patrick Hoban (20)
Highest home attendance 3,600 (est) (Vs. Derry City, 19 November 2021)
Home colours
Away colours
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Dundalk entered the 2021 season as the FAI Cup holders, and were still the League of Ireland Cup holders, having won it in 2019, because of the competition not running in 2020. Having qualified for European football for the eighth season in a row, they were entered in the new UEFA Europa Conference League. 2021 was Dundalk's 13th consecutive season in the top tier of Irish football, their 86th in all, and their 95th in the League of Ireland.

Jim Magilton was the club's new Sporting Director going into the new term, having taken up the role at the end of the 2020 season. Shane Keegan was named the First Team Manager at the beginning of the season, replacing Interim Head Coach from 2020, Filippo Giovagnoli, who was retained as First Team Coach. Giovagnoli could not be named manager because he did not hold a UEFA Pro Licence.

Season summary

For the second season in a row, both the League of Ireland Cup and the Leinster Senior Cup were deferred because of delays and restrictions caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Having not been held in 2020, the President's Cup (the traditional season curtain-raiser) was played on 12 March between League Champions Shamrock Rovers and FAI Cup holders Dundalk. Dundalk won the match on penalties, 4–3, after it had finished 1–1 in 90 minutes.[2]

The league season started a week later on 19 March 2021 and after a run of defeats at the start of the league campaign, which saw Dundalk lie second from bottom after five matches, both Keegan and Giovagnoli resigned. Sporting Director Jim Magilton assumed a caretaker manager role, pending the appointment of a new manager.[3] On 16 June, Vinny Perth, who had been sacked midway through the previous season, returned to the club as manager.[4] They continued to struggle in the league and were briefly threatened with a promotion/relegation play-off,[5] before recovering somewhat to end the season in sixth place.[6]

In the FAI Cup, a run of six appearances in a row in the final (a joint record for the competition) was ended when they were knocked out at the semi-final stage by St Patrick's Athletic, managed by former captain Stephen O'Donnell.[7]

In Europe, they defeated Newtown A.F.C. of Wales in the first qualifying round of the new Europa Conference League 5–0 on aggregate, which included a club European record equaling 4–0 victory in the first leg.[8] In the second qualifying round, they overcame Levadia Tallinn 4–3 on aggregate with Will Patching scoring a stoppage time winner in the second leg in Estonia.[9] They were knocked out in the third qualifying round by Vitesse Arnhem, 4–3 on aggregate, after a 2–1 defeat in the second leg at 'home' in Tallaght Stadium, which saw a Michael Duffy goal after 40 seconds incorrectly disallowed for offside.[10]

Before the season ended, the club was returned to local ownership when a consortium led by former co-owner Andy Connolly and sports technology firm STATSports agreed a takeover with Peak6. Sporting Director Jim Magilton left the club in the aftermath of the takeover.[11]

First-Team Squad (2021)

Sources:[12][13][14] Note: Substitute appearances in brackets

No. Name DOB Pos. Debut League FAI Cup Europe Others Totals
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 Albania Alessio Abibi 4 December 1996 GK 2021 20 0 1 0 6 0 1 0 28 0
3 Republic of Ireland Brian Gartland 4 November 1986 DF 2013 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
4 Republic of Ireland Andy Boyle 7 March 1991 DF 2013 35 1 4 0 6 0 1 0 46 1
5 Republic of Ireland Chris Shields[lower-alpha 1] 27 December 1990 MF 2012 16 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 3
6 Faroe Islands Sonni Nattestad 5 August 1994 DF 2021 8 (5) 0 1 (1) 0 6 0 1 1 22 1
7 Republic of Ireland Michael Duffy 28 July 1994 MF 2017 31 (3) 4 3 1 4 2 0 0 41 7
8 Scotland Sam Stanton 19 April 1994 MF 2021 25 (4) 1 4 0 6 0 1 0 40 1
9 Republic of Ireland Patrick Hoban 28 July 1991 FW 2013 26 (1) 12 4 7 1 (2) 1 0 (1) 0 35 20
10 Republic of Ireland Greg Sloggett 3 July 1996 MF 2020 21 (8) 1 4 (1) 0 3 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 39 1
11 Republic of Ireland Patrick McEleney 26 September 1992 MF 2016 17 (4) 2 0 (1) 1 6 2 1 0 29 5
12 Scotland Cameron Yates 14 February 1999 GK 2021 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
13 Latvia Raivis Jurkovskis 7 December 1996 DF 2021 26 (2) 0 4 (1) 0 5 (1) 0 1 0 40 0
14 Scotland Peter Cherrie 1 October 1983 GK 2009 15 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
15 Republic of Ireland Darragh Leahy 15 April 1998 DF 2020 18 (5) 0 3 (1) 0 6 0 1 0 34 0
16 Republic of Ireland Seán Murray 11 October 1993 MF 2019 17 (10) 6 4 2 0 (3) 0 0 0 34 8
17 Norway Ole Erik Midtskogen[lower-alpha 2] 12 April 1995 FW 2021 5 (7) 1 1 0 0 (3) 0 0 0 16 1
17 Morocco Sami Ben Amar[lower-alpha 3] 2 March 1998 FW 2021 8 (6) 1 2 (1) 1 0 0 0 0 17 2
18 England Will Patching[lower-alpha 4] 18 October 1998 MF 2020 15 (1) 0 3 (1) 0 5 3 0 0 25 3
19 Central African Republic Wilfried Zahibo[lower-alpha 5] 21 August 1993 MF 2021 6 (6) 0 1 (1) 0 1 (4) 0 0 0 19 0
20 England Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe[lower-alpha 6] 3 March 1994 FW 2021 5 (7) 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 13 2
21 Republic of Ireland Daniel Cleary 9 March 1996 DF 2018 24 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 27 1
23 Northern Ireland Cameron Dummigan 2 June 1996 DF 2019 26 (3) 0 5 0 1 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 37 0
24 Republic of Ireland Mayowa Animasahun[lower-alpha 7] 8 August 2003 DF 2021 0 (6) 0 1 (2) 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
25 Republic of Ireland Val Adedokun[lower-alpha 8] 14 February 2003 MF 2020 4 (2) 0 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 0 0 8 0
27 Republic of Ireland Daniel Kelly 21 May 1996 MF 2019 12 (7) 3 1 (1) 0 5 (1) 0 0 0 27 3
28 Republic of Ireland Ryan O'Kane 16 August 2003 MF 2021 1 (7) 0 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 0 0 10 0
29 Republic of Ireland David McMillan 14 December 1988 FW 2015 9 (11) 4 1 (1) 0 5 (1) 3 1 0 29 7
77 South Korea Jeongwoo Han[lower-alpha 9] 26 December 1998 FW 2021 6 (7) 1 2 1 0 (2) 1 0 0 17 3
90 United States Jesús Pérez[lower-alpha 10] 1 October 1997 MF 2021 0 (2) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
  1. ↑ transferred to Linfield on 1 July 2021
  2. ↑ departed club 13 August 2021
  3. ↑ signed for the club 17 August 2021
  4. ↑ on loan at Derry City until 1 July 2021
  5. ↑ signed 17 April 2021
  6. ↑ on loan to Derry City as of 1 July 2021
  7. ↑ signed professional contract on 10 August 2021
  8. ↑ transferred to Brentford on 24 August 2021
  9. ↑ signed 25 March 2021
  10. ↑ on loan to Forward Madison as of 1 July 2021

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
12 Republic of Ireland DF Andrew Quinn (at Bray Wanderers until 31 December 2021)
20 England FW Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe (at Derry City until 31 December 2021)
22 United States MF Taner Dogan (at Forward Madison until 31 December 2021)
90 United States MF Jesús Pérez (at Forward Madison until 31 December 2021)
Canada DF Terique Mohammed (at York United until 31 December 2021)

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

President's Cup

Premier Division

League table

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FAI Cup

Europa Conference League

First qualifying round

Dundalk won 5–0 on aggregate.

Second qualifying round

Dundalk won 4–3 on aggregate.

Third qualifying round

Dundalk lost 4–3 on aggregate.

Footnotes

References

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