The fixtures for the revised SSE Airtricity League Premier Division season have been announced.
Sligo Rovers will resume their league campaign with a trip to the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium to play Derry City on Friday, July 31st. The match will have an earlier kick-off time of 5:45pm.
This will be a new feature of the revised season with two matches scheduled for Friday, two on Saturday and the fifth Premier Division match each week to be played on either Sunday or Monday.
The fixture list is effectively picking up where it left off before the season was halted. Rovers home league game against Waterford, which was postponed at the end of February as the Covid pandemic kicked in, has been re-fixed for Tuesday, August 4th, at the Showgrounds.
A new broadcast agreement is set to see every game streamed live online on a new pay-per-view service.
The remaining fixtures for the truncated 2020 season mean there will be two rounds of matches in total, including games played to date, and promotion/relegation as scheduled at the start of the 2020 season.
Download the full fixture list here.
Rovers will restart bottom of the Premier Division, having lost all four of their league games before Covid hit.
| POS | TEAM | GAMES | POINTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Shamrock Rovers | 5 | 15 |
| 2. | Dundalk | 5 | 12 |
| 3. | Bohemians | 5 | 9 |
| 4. | St Patrick's Athletic | 4 | 6 |
| 5. | Shelbourne | 4 | 6 |
| 6. | Waterford | 4 | 6 |
| 7. | Derry City | 4 | 4 |
| 8. | Finn Harps | 4 | 4 |
| 9. | Cork City | 5 | 3 |
| 10. | Sligo Rovers | 4 | 0 |
The final SSE Airtricity League fixture of the season will be the promotion/relegation play-off final on the weekend ending Sunday, November 8th.
The Extra.ie FAI Cup will continue after this date with the quarter-finals scheduled for the weekend ending Sunday, November 15th, the semi-finals for the weekend ending Sunday, November 22nd, and the final for the weekend ending Sunday, November 29th.
