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League of Ireland clubs agree structure for next season

Club chiefs thrashed out plans for next season at a meeting last night.

Shamrock Rovers will hope to defend their league title again.
Shamrock Rovers will hope to defend their league title again.
Image: INPHO/Donall Farmer

LEAGUE OF IRELAND sides will play each other three times each next year.

The structure was agreed at a meeting of club representatives last night.

The clubs have rejected plans to split the top division into two tiers at the end of the campaign however.

The league will take a mid-season break in June, which coincides generally with Ireland’s Euro 2012 campaign.

One club will be relegated automatically from the Premier Division. The second placed club plays the third placed club in a First Division play-off, meanwhile, with the winners then facing  the 11th-placed Premier Division side.

The season will commence on Friday, 2 March and finish on the weekend of 28 October.

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  • Shouldnt this all wait to see how clubs come out of the close season. Licenses have not been acquired yet, there are currently only 9 clubs in the 1st division and Galway, Bohs and Finn Harps are all in serious trouble.
    A strong 14-16 team top division is whats needed.

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