Finn Harps – UCD

Finn Harps and UCD have met 4 times down the years, and the overall balance favours UCD, 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. The numbers suggest an entertaining watch: 5 goals per match on average, 100% of encounters going beyond two and a half, and both teams scoring in 75% of them. The pattern has been fairly consistent across the sample above. Where the game is played has mattered. Finn Harps hold 1-0-1 as hosts in this fixture, and UCD show 2-0-0 at home, underlining how much home comfort can tilt an otherwise close rivalry one way or the other. Form going into the next meeting is worth a glance. Finn Harps have won 1 of their last 5 games and are scoring 0.8 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 25% for Finn Harps, 0% drawn and 75% 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 28.08.2026, when UCD and Finn Harps finished 5–4, the latest marker in a long rivalry. With no date yet set for the next one, that result is where the story currently rests.