Cork City – Longford Town

Cork City and Longford Town have met 4 times down the years, and the overall balance favours Cork City, who have won 2 of those games to 2, with 0 finishing level. On paper it is a fixture with a clear favourite, yet many of the meetings have been decided by the finest of margins. On the scoring front the fixture averages 3.8 goals a game. Three or more have arrived in 75% of meetings, while both sides got on the scoresheet in 75%, a useful pointer for anyone weighing up how the next instalment might unfold. Venue has shaped plenty of these results. Cork City read 1-0-1 at home against this side, whereas Longford Town sit on 1-0-1 on their own turf, a split that is worth keeping in mind before the teams line up again. Current form reads clearly enough: Cork City have 2 wins in their last 5, scoring 2 each time out, and Longford Town have 2 from 5, netting 1.4 on average. Momentum like that can quickly override what the historical numbers suggest. In percentage terms it reads 50% to Cork City, 0% drawn and 50% to Longford Town. Those splits are a fair guide to what tends to happen, even if any single meeting can buck the trend. Their most recent meeting came on 26.09.2026, when Longford Town and Cork City finished 2–1, the latest marker in a long rivalry. With no date yet set for the next one, that result is where the story currently rests.