The FAI President’s Cup is a cup competition in Ireland, with recorded coverage from 2019 to 2024. Use this page to follow live scores, upcoming fixtures and completed results, alongside standings and player and team statistics across the competition’s recorded seasons, all in one place.
Latest played matches, FAI President's Cup
Final
FAI President's Cup Standings
FAI President's Cup Statistics
Top scorers 2025
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Top assists 2025
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Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
FAI President's Cup teams participation since 2019
History
| Team | Nb participations |
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| Shamrock Rovers | 4 |
| Dundalk | 2 |
| St Patrick's Athl. | 2 |
| Cork City | 1 |
| Derry City | 1 |
| Drogheda United | 1 |
| Shelbourne | 1 |
FAI President's Cup top scorer teams
FAI President's Cup About
FAI President’s Cup is an Irish football cup competition, occupying a distinct place within the country’s competitive football ecosystem. Its purpose is to provide a recognised cup platform in which participating clubs compete for a prestigious national honour under the rules and administration applicable to the relevant edition.
Identity and role
The competition’s identity is defined by its Irish setting, cup status and President’s Cup title. Cup competitions add a different dimension to football alongside league programmes: each tie carries immediate significance, progression depends on results in the relevant stage, and the eventual winner is determined through the competition’s prescribed route rather than by a season-long points table.
The title also gives the event a formal character within Irish football. It represents a focused contest for silverware and provides a clear competitive objective for the clubs involved. Beyond the result of an individual match, success in the FAI President’s Cup contributes to a club’s standing and forms part of its competitive record for the season.
Format and progression
The FAI President’s Cup is recorded as a cup rather than a league. That distinction is important: league standings, promotion and relegation tables, and a conventional round-robin points race should not be assumed when interpreting its results. The supplied competition record does not establish a complete stage-by-stage format, entry criteria, draw procedure or progression rules, so those details should be read from the regulations or match information for the specific edition rather than treated as permanent features.
The same caution applies to tie-break procedures. Whether a tied match is settled by extra time, penalties, a replay or another approved method can depend on the competition regulations in force for that season. No single resolution method is confirmed here for every recorded edition.
History and recorded coverage
The available competition record covers six seasons, from 2019 through 2024 inclusive. This provides a useful modern period for comparing participation, fixtures and outcomes across successive editions, while avoiding unsupported claims about the competition’s founding date or earlier history. The absence of a verified formation year in the available record means that no earlier origin date is stated here.
Season-by-season context matters in a cup competition because regulations, participating clubs and the route to the final may change over time. Results from the 2019–2024 coverage should therefore be understood as part of a recorded sequence of editions, not as proof that every historical or future edition uses identical arrangements.
Why the competition matters
For clubs, the central sporting objective is progression and ultimately winning the cup. For supporters, the competition offers a concentrated series of high-stakes fixtures in which a single result can shape an entire campaign. For researchers and followers of Irish football, the FAI President’s Cup provides a defined body of cup records through which to examine participation and competitive outcomes across the six documented seasons.