FAI and League of Ireland centenaries

[Merseman]

Are any events/games planned to mark these this year - or maybe next in circumstances?

[Merseman]

Any news on this for next year?

[garyspain]

Apparently a big friendly in March. It was to be Italy but now they are in the playoffs.

[seand]

The silence has been deafening, hard to imagine another major sporting organisation so resolutely fail to use a centenary to promote the game.

There was a centenary jersey produced and worn in a recent friendly.

I don't think Bohemians or Shelbourne (the two founder members of the league in 1921 who are still there) did anything of note to mark the centenary
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[overlap]

The Scottish Football League’s centenary in 1990 was a damp squib.
For their big match they choose to play….Scotland!
Only 15,000 turned up at a mostly-empty Hampden for the game.

[Merseman]

BnQ Centenary Cup fared better.

NI just brandedup WC qualifier v Sweden.

[Merseman]

Merseman wrote:

Are any events/games planned to mark these this year - or maybe next in circumstances?

v Belgium: https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/belgium-confirmed-as-fai-centenary-game-opponents

[seand]

The FAI did produce a nice centenary themed programme for the Belgium game


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[seand]

The FAI centenary website is quite nice, not much in the way of history but a good lot of profiles of international, domestic, female and underage players

https://centenary.fai.ie/
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