Derry City F.C. records

This article deals with Derry City Football Club records.

• League titles: 5
  • Irish Football League: 1964-65
  • League of Ireland: 1988–89, 1996–97
  • League of Ireland First Division: 1986–87, 2010
• FAI Cup: 6
  • 1989, 1995, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2022^[1]
• League of Ireland Cup: 11
  • 1988-89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2005, 2006,^[2] 2007, 2008, 2011, 2018
• IFA Cup: 3
  • 1948–49, 1953–54, 1963–64
• League of Ireland First Division Shield: 1
  • 1985–86
• City Cup: 2
  • 1935, 1937
• Gold Cup: 1
  • 1964
• Top Four Winners: 1
  • 1966
• North-West Senior Cup: 14
  • 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1970–71

See 2019 League of Ireland for a general overview of Derry City's current season.

Derry compete in a number of major domestic competitions on an annual basis. Those include the League of Ireland, the FAI Cup and the League of Ireland Cup. They can also take part in the cross-border Setanta Sports Cup, on condition of qualification for the tournament based on performances in the three former competitions. Prior to 1973 the club's main domestic competitions were the Irish League and the IFA Cup.

Up until the end of the 2006 season, Derry had played a total of 691 League of Ireland games since joining in 1985. 306 of these games had been won (44.28%), 197 had been drawn (28.51%) and 188 had been lost (27.21%). In the process, 951 goals were scored (an average of 1.38 goals per game) and 651 were conceded (an average of 0.94 goals per game). With 993 points being accumulated over those League of Ireland years, Derry managed an average of 1.44 points per game.

^1 First season of the League of Ireland's 5 year merger with the FAI.
^2 League reduced from 12 teams to 11 teams mid-season after Dublin City FC resigned so all their games were expunged from the record and the league table re-calculated. This also occurred in 2012 when Monaghan United withdrew from the league.
^3 On goal difference.^[3]
^4 League increased from 10 competing teams to 12 competing teams from start of this season onward (until 2009 when Premier Division will be reduced to 10 teams, as planned by FAI).
^5 League changed to 'Summer season' from start of this season onward.
^6 League reduced from 12 competing teams to 10 competing teams from outset of season. Lasted for 3 further seasons until end of 2004 season.
^7 Changed from two points to three for a win from start of this season onward.
^8 Top and bottom halves of league split into two groups of 6 teams for two concluding relegation and title mini-series. Concept lasted for two seasons.
^9 Promoted from First Division to Premier Division after finishing top of division and remained there until they were expelled from the league at the end of the 2009 season, where they re-entered the first division and won it at the first attempt.
^10 Season Derry City first entered First Division. Division made up of 10 teams for all of Derry's period of taking part.

• (Complete list of Premier Division standings)
• (Complete list of First Division standings)

Derry City have appeared in the FAI Cup final on 10 occasions, winning 5 of those.

^11 After replay.
^12 This was second FAI Cup final in 2002 due to a 'Winter transition season' being played to allow for the new 'Summer season' to proceed in March 2003.
^13 After extra-time.
^14 Bohemians won on penalties.

• (Complete record)

Derry City have appeared in the League of Ireland Cup final on 12 occasions, winning 10 of those.

^15 Dundalk won on penalties.
^16 Aggregate score after two legs.
^17 Limerick won on penalties.
^18 Derry City won on penalties.
¹⁹ Derry City scored in extra time.

Derry City have appeared in the IFA Cup final on 6 occasions, winning 3 of those.

^20 After replay and extra-time.
^21 After two replays.

Derry City appeared in the cross-border Setanta Cup final once in a losing effort.

^22 Crusaders won on penalties.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1964–65	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Steaua București	0–2	0–3	0–5
1965–66	European Cup	PR	Lyn Oslo	3–5	5–1	8–6
		1R	Anderlecht	w/o	0–9	0–9
1988–89	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Cardiff City	0–0	0–4	0–4
1989–90	European Cup	1R	Benfica	1–2	0–4	1–6
1990–91	UEFA Cup	1R	Vitesse	0–1	0–0	0–1
1992–93	UEFA Cup	1R	Vitesse	0–3	1–2	1–5
1995–96	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Lokomotiv Sofia	1–0	0–2	1–2
1997–98	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Maribor	0–2	0–1	0–3
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	APOEL	0–3	1–2	1–5
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1QR	IFK Göteborg	1–0	1–0	2–0
		2QR	Gretna	2–2	5–1	7–3
		1R	Paris Saint-Germain	0–0	0–2	0–2
2007–08	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Pyunik	0–0	0–2	0–2
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Skonto	1–0	1–1	2–1
		3QR	CSKA Sofia	1–1	0–1	1–2
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Trabzonspor	0–3	2–4	2–7
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Aberystwyth Town	4–0	5–0	9–0
		2QR	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	0–1	1–5	1–6
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Midtjylland	1–4	1–6	2–10
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Dinamo Minsk	0–2	2–1	2–3
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Riteriai	N/A	2–3	N/A
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	1QR	Riga FC	0–2	0–2	0–4
2023–24	UEFA Europa Conference League	1QR	HB Torshavn	1–0	0–0	1–0
		2QR	KuPS

• (Full details)

Derry City's UEFA coefficient accumulates to a total value of 3.500 as of July 2023.^[4]

Current club ranking

• 307 Viitorul Constanta
• 308 AEL Limassol
• 309 Dila Gori
• 310 Derry City FC
• 311 FC Differdange 03
• 312 Urartu FC
• 313 NK Celje

https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/trank2024.html

Name	Nationality	From	To	Record
				Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals for	Goals against	Win percentage
Jim Crossan		1985	1985	10	2	4	4	9	13	20%
Noel King20		1985	1987	62	43	7	12	144	57	69%
Jim McLaughlin		1987	1991	177	97	41	39	347	141	55%
Roy Coyle		1991	1993	97	44	32	21	115	71	45%
Tony O'Doherty		1993	1994	56	29	14	13	76	52	52%
Felix Healy		1994	1998	171	73	53	45	262	169	43%
Kevin Mahon		1998	2003	200	82	51	67	225	213	41%
Dermot Keely		2003	2003	11	1	6	4	9	18	9%
Gavin Dykes		2003	2004	34	8	13	13	23	30	24%
Peter Hutton24		2004	2004	12	6	3	3	10	10	50%
Stephen Kenny		2004	2006	11225	65	29	18	170	80	58%
Pat Fenlon		2006	2007	18	6	5	7	16	18	33%
Peter Hutton24		2007	2007	6	1	3	2	7	5	17%
John Robertson		2007	2007	2	2	0	0	6	2	100%
Stephen Kenny		2007	2011	181	93	49	39	-	-	58%

^24 Acted as player-manager.
^25 Record includes two games – a win and a loss – against Dublin City which were expunged from the records after being contested.

• Derry City's first ever goalscorer was Peter Burke against Glentoran on 22 August 1929.^[5]
• On 24 August 1929, Sammy Curran had the honour of scoring Derry City's first senior hat-trick, as the club came back from 5–1 down against Portadown FC, only to lose 6–5 to a late goal.
• The club's all-time highest goal-scorer is Jimmy Kelly with 363 goals during a spell of over 20 years at the club between 1930 and the early 1951.
• Terry Kelly, who captained Derry City in 1985, was the first football player in the world to captain a club he played with in two different national leagues.^[6]
• Barry McCreadie was Derry's first goalscorer in the League of Ireland. He scored during a 3–1 home win over Home Farm on 8 September 1985.
• Derry City's first hat-trick in the League of Ireland was scored by Kevin Mahon away at Finn Harps on 15 December 1985.
• Derry City's record league defeat was to Shamrock Rovers in March, 2018. The score was 6–1.
• Derry City's record league victory was a score of 9–1 against Galway United in October, 1986.
• The club's highest scorer in the League of Ireland is Mark Farren, who played for the club from 2003 until 2012. Farren scored 114 goals in 209 competitive appearances for the club.
• Derry City completed a treble in the League of Ireland 1988–89 season. Shamrock Rovers are the only others to have completed this feat — three times in total.
• Derry are one of only three clubs (the others are Shelbourne and Bohemians) who have won both the Irish Cup and the FAI Cup.
• Derry are the only team in Ireland to have won both the Irish League and the League of Ireland.
• Derry played in the first League of Ireland match ever to be shown live on television when they visited Tolka Park to play Shelbourne FC during the 1996–97 season. The game was broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2 and finished 1–1 with Gary Beckett scoring for Derry.
• In 2005, Kevin McHugh became one of just a handful of current players to join the 38-strong group of players who have scored 100 or more League of Ireland goals in the modern era.
• Derry's 5–1 away win against Gretna FC at Fir Park, Motherwell in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup's Second Qualifying Round is the largest away winning margin for any League of Ireland team in European competition.
• Derry's FAI Cup final game against St. Patrick's Athletic on 3 December 2006 was the last soccer game ever to be contested at the old Lansdowne Road stadium before the commencement of planned re-development.^[7] Derry won the wind-swept game 4-3 after extra-time.
• Derry City is a unique club, due to its troubled and fluctuant history, in that it is one of the few clubs from the United Kingdom (and the only club in Northern Ireland) to play in the league of another country – the league of the Republic of Ireland in the case of Derry City. (See Football clubs playing in the league of another country for further general information.)
• Derry City hold the record for the most League of Ireland Cup wins, having won the competition 11 times.
• In 2018 Jack Doyle scored the 1500th League of Ireland goal for the club in a 1–0 win over Waterford at the Brandywell

Official club site:

• CityWeb

News and information sites:

• Derry City F.C. on UEFA.com
• UEFA.com article about Derry City F.C.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Derry City's FAI Cup history on RTÉ.ie
• Historical seasonal standings of the Irish League from the Rec.Sport.Soccer