Setanta Sports Cup 2012 Odds

The Setanta Sports Cup, commonly known as just the Setanta Cup, is a club football competition featuring teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland. It was inaugurated in 2005 as a cross-border competition between clubs from the League of Ireland from the Republic of Ireland and the Irish League from Northern Ireland.

The cup is sponsored by Setanta Sports, the Irish subscription sports television network. The competition was launched with Setanta providing support for prize money and sponsorship. In June 2009, the company went into administration and ceased broadcasting in Great Britain, putting the future of the competition in doubt. The draw for the 2009 tournament was postponed while the company tries to continue trading in Ireland. The competition has seen numerous instances of crowd violence at its games since its inception, while attendances at fixtures have declined.

The competition features four teams from each league with the winners and runners-up of the respective leagues, the winners of the respective major cup competitions, FAI Cup of the League of Ireland, and Irish Cup of the Irish League, and the winners of the respective secondary cup competitions, the League of Ireland Cup and Irish Football League Cup being added. If a club has qualified via a cup win and would also qualify by league table position, one of the spots would be awarded to the next highest club in the league table that has not qualified via a cup win. A ninth team qualifies by winning the competition the year before, if the winners have already qualified their spot is given to the highest finishing team in the winner's league that didn't already qualify. The competition is organised with three groups of three teams, semi-finals and a final.

More information about Setanta Sports Cup can be found on Wikipedia.

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