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2009 A Championship

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Season
  
2009

2009 A Championship

Champions
  
Shamrock Rovers A !Shamrock Rovers A

Promoted
  
Salthill Devon !Salthill Devon

The 2009 A Championship was the second season of the A Championship. The season was sponsored by Newstalk. The league featured 18 teams. Shamrock Rovers A !Shamrock Rovers A were the champions while the runners up, Salthill Devon !Salthill Devon, were promoted to the First Division.

Contents

Overwiew

18 teams participated in the 2009 A Championship. 12 of these were the reserve teams of League of Ireland clubs. The 2008 champions UCD A !UCD A and Limerick 37 A !Limerick 37 A did not enter teams for the 2009 season. They were replaced by Sporting Fingal A !Sporting Fingal A and Dundalk A !Dundalk A. The six non-reserve teams included Salthill Devon !Salthill Devon and Tullamore Town !Tullamore Town, both of whom played in the 2008 season. Cobh Ramblers !Cobh Ramblers had been relegated from the 2008 Premier Division but were demoted directly to the A Championship after being refused a First Division licence. Castlebar Celtic !Castlebar Celtic, F.C. Carlow !F.C. Carlow and Tralee Dynamos !Tralee Dynamos were making their debut at senior national level. They were the first clubs from their respective counties of Mayo, Carlow and Kerry to play at this level.

The regular season started on 4 April and was completed by early November. The format saw the 18 teams split into two groups of nine, divided roughly into southern and northern groups. The two groups used a traditional round-robin format. The two group winners, Shamrock Rovers A !Shamrock Rovers A and Salthill Devon, then played off in a final. Shamrock Rovers emerged as champions. As the highest placed non-reserve team, Salthill Devon also qualified for a promotion/relegation play-off. However they were subsequently promoted directly to the 2010 First Division after their opponents, Kildare County, withdrew from the League of Ireland before the play-off could be played.

Results

Source: loi.ie
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results

Source: loi.ie
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final tables

Group 1

Source: loi.ie
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Note: Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group 2

Source: loi.ie
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Note: Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

References

2009 A Championship Wikipedia