Shamrock Rovers – Sligo Rovers

Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers have met 4 times down the years, and the overall balance favours Shamrock Rovers, 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: 3 goals per match on average, 75% of encounters going beyond two and a half, and both teams scoring in 50% of them. The pattern has been fairly consistent across the sample above. Home advantage has told as well. On their own ground Shamrock Rovers carry a record of 1-0-1 in this exact fixture, while Sligo Rovers have managed 0-0-2 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. Shamrock Rovers have won 4 of their last 5 games and are scoring 2.4 a game, while Sligo Rovers have taken 0 wins from 5, averaging 0.6, so both arrive with recent evidence to lean on. Taken together, the split works out at roughly 75% for Shamrock Rovers, 0% drawn and 25% for Sligo Rovers. 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 23.10.2026, when Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers finished 4–0, the latest marker in a long rivalry. With no date yet set for the next one, that result is where the story currently rests.