2007–08_Irish_League_Cup

2007–08 Irish League Cup
CIS Insurance Cup
Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland
Teams	16
Defending champions	Glentoran
Final positions
Champions	Linfield (9th win)
Runner-up	Crusaders
Tournament statistics
Matches played	55
Goals scored	182 (3.31 per match)
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2007–08 Irish League Cup

Football tournament season

The 2007–08 Irish League Cup (known as the CIS Insurance Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 2 February 2008 with the final.

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Glentoran were the defending champions after their sixth League Cup win last season; a 1–0 victory over Cliftonville in the previous final. This season Glentoran went out at the semi-final stage to Crusaders, who were then defeated 3–2 by Linfield in the final. This was a record ninth League Cup win for Linfield, and would be their last one for 11 years until they won the 2019 final. This was also the tenth time in eleven years that the cup had been won by one of Belfast's Big Two.^[1]^[2]

The 16 clubs taking part were divided into four groups of four clubs. The clubs in each group played each other at home and away. The top two clubs from each group then advanced to the quarter-finals where they played a single knock-out tie against another quarter-finalist. The semi-finals were played in the same format with the two winners of the ties advancing to the single match final.

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"Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

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"Northern Ireland League Cup 2007/08". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	LIN	DUN	GLA	BYM
Linfield	6	5	1	0	13	2	+11	16		1–1	2–0	5–1
Dungannon Swifts	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10	0–1		2–1	1–0
Glenavon	6	1	1	4	8	13	−5	4	0–1	3–2		1–3
Ballymena United	6	1	1	4	7	14	−7	4	0–3	0–1	3–3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	GLT	LIS	LRN	ARM
Glentoran	6	6	0	0	19	6	+13	18		3–1	3–2	6–0
Lisburn Distillery	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	1–2		2–1	1–0
Larne	6	1	1	4	11	13	−2	4	2–3	1–1		3–1
Armagh City	6	1	0	5	5	17	−12	3	0–2	1–3	3–2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	CLI	CRU	DGC	LIM
Cliftonville	6	4	2	0	12	5	+7	14		1–0	2–2	2–0
Crusaders	6	3	1	2	11	12	−1	10	1–4		0–0	1–0
Donegal Celtic	6	1	2	3	9	11	−2	5	0–1	3–4		3–2
Limavady United	6	1	1	4	10	14	−4	4	2–2	4–5	2–1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	POR	NEW	COL	INS
Portadown	6	5	1	0	12	6	+6	16		0–0	2–1	2–1
Newry City	6	4	1	1	8	5	+3	13	1–3		1–0	1–0
Coleraine	6	0	2	4	7	11	−4	2	2–3	1–2		1–1
Institute	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2	1–2	1–3	2–2

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cliftonville	3–3 (5–6 p)	Newry City
Glentoran	1–0	Dungannon Swifts
Linfield	5–1	Lisburn Distillery
Portadown	3–4	Crusaders

2007–08_Irish_League_Cup

2007–08 Irish League Cup

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

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