Cork City – UCD

Cork City and UCD have met 4 times down the years, and the overall balance favours Cork City, who have won 3 of those games to 1, 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. Goals have rarely been in short supply. These games produce 4.5 on average, with 75% of the meetings bringing three or more, and both teams have found the net in 75% of them, which points to an open contest more often than a cagey one. Home advantage has told as well. On their own ground Cork City carry a record of 2-0-0 in this exact fixture, while UCD have managed 1-0-1 when hosting the same opponent, so where the next meeting is played could matter as much as current form. Form going into the next meeting is worth a glance. Cork City have won 2 of their last 5 games and are scoring 2 a game, while UCD have taken 3 wins from 5, averaging 2.6, so both arrive with recent evidence to lean on. Taken together, the split works out at roughly 75% for Cork City, 0% drawn and 25% for UCD. It is the kind of record that rewards the favourite more often than not, without ever making the outcome a certainty. Their most recent meeting came on 18.09.2026, when Cork City and UCD finished 5–1, the latest marker in a long rivalry. With no date yet set for the next one, that result is where the story currently rests.