The 2008 League of Ireland First Division season was the 24th season of the League of Ireland First Division. The First Division was contested by 10 teams and Dundalk won the division.
Club information Team Base Manager Main sponsor Kit supplier Stadium Capacity Athlone Town Athlone Brendan Place Ganly's Hardware O'Neills Athlone Town Stadium 2,000 Dundalk Dundalk John Gill IJM Umbro Oriel Park 6,000 Kildare County Newbridge Joe Somerville Cill Dara Betting O'Neills Station Road 2,500 Limerick 37 Limerick Michael Kerley Limerick's Live 95FM Jako Jackman Park 8,000 Longford Town Longford Alan Gough Flancare Umbro Flancare Park 4,500 Monaghan United Monaghan Mick Cooke The Squeeling Pig Nike Century Homes Park 3,000 Shelbourne Drumcondra Dermot Keely Cab 2000 Umbro Tolka Park 9,700 Sporting Fingal Fingal Liam Buckley Keelings O'Neills Morton Stadium 10,000 Waterford United Waterford Gareth Cronin Hutchison 3G Azzurri Waterford RSC 8,000 Wexford Youths Crossabeg Mick Wallace Wallace Construction O'Neills Ferrycarraig Park 5,000
Overview The regular season began on 7 March and concluded on 15 November. Each team played the other teams four times, totaling 36 games. Only the champions, Dundalk, were automatically promoted and there was no promotion/relegation play-off between Premier Division and First Division teams. This was because the 2009 Premier Division would be reduced to 10 clubs.
Final table
Results Matches 1 to 18
Rounds 19 and 36
Promotion/relegation play-offs Kildare County and Mervue United, the highest ranked non-reserve team from the 2008 A Championship, played off to see who would play in the 2009 First Division.
Mervue United won 5–2 on aggregate and were promoted to the First Division.
Top scorers
GoalscorersGoalsTeam Robbie Doyle16 Sporting Fingal Anthony Flood15Shelbourne Darren McKenna 13Longford Town Robbie Farrell 11Dundalk Vinny Sullivan11Waterford United
Gallery
See also 2008 League of Ireland Premier Division 2008 League of Ireland Cup 2008 A Championship
References