1987/88

1987/88 First Division Table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Athlone Town	27	19	1	7	42	22	39	P
2	Cobh Ramblers	27	17	4	6	41	24	38	P
3	Finn Harps	27	13	7	7	45	33	33
4	Home Farm	27	12	5	10	50	42	29
5	UCD	27	9	7	11	38	48	25
6	Drogheda Utd	27	12	0	15	38	48	24
7	Longford Town	27	8	7	12	23	35	23
8	Monaghan Utd	27	7	7	13	34	43	21
9	Newcastlewest	27	7	5	15	36	42	19
10	EMFA	27	7	5	15	34	55	19

1987/88 Appearances

Mick McCormack	36
Leo Devlin	36
Clive O'Neill	33
Pat Hackett	32
Gerry Quigley	32
Paul Dempsey	30
Eamon Gavin	28
Jude Quigley	28
Dessie Barry	28
Johnny Morris Burke	25
Heysham El Khershi	24
Gavin Drummon	24
Kevin McCormack	23
Christy Thompson	21
Michael Malone	18
Derek Beaumont	9
Jimmy Reilly	9
Gerry Sheridan	8
James Diffley	5
Padraig McNamara	4
Tony Dully	3
Noel Dempsey	2
Padraig Igoe	1

1987/88 Goalscorers

10	Clive O'Neill
4	Leo Devlin.Heysham El Khershi
3	Gerry Quigley, Pat Hackett
2	Johnny Morris Burke
1	Gavin Drummond,Eamon Gavin,Mick McCormack,Kevin McCormack,Paul Dempsey, Michael Malone,OG

1987/88 Results

W/E	Competition	Teams	Goalscorers

21/08/87	Leinster Senior Cup 2nd Round	Longford Town 2-2 Athlone Town*	L Devlin (2)
28/08/87	League Cup 2nd Round	Longford Town 0-2 Shamrock Rovers
04/09/87	League Cup 2nd Round	Longford Town 0-0 Shelbourne
11/09/87	League Cup 2nd Round	Athlone Town 2-1 Longford Town	Drummond
18/09/87	League	Athlone Town 2-0 Longford Town
25/09/87	League	Longford Town 0-3 Monaghan Utd
02/10/87	League	Drogheda Utd 3-1 Longford Town	O'Neill
09/10/87	League	Longford Town 2-6 Home Farm	Gavin, O'Neill
16/10/87	League	Cobh Ramblers 2-1 Longford Town	O'Neill
23/10/87	League	Longford Town 2-1 Newcastlewest	M McCormack, L Devlin
30/10/87	League	Longford Town 1-0 Finn Harps	El Khershi
06/11/87	League	UCD 2-0 Longford Town
13/11/87	League	EMFA 2-1 Longford Town	El Khershi
20/11/87	League	Longford Town 1-0 Athlone Town	K McCormack
27/11/87	League	Monaghan Utd 0-1 Longford Town	El Khershi
04/12/87	League	Longford Town 3-0 Drogheda Utd	El Khershi, G Quigley (2)
11/12/87	League	Home Farm 2-0 Longford Town
18/12/87	League	Longford Town 0-0 Cobh Ramblers
25/12/87	League	Newcastlewest 0-0 Longford Town
01/01/88	League	Finn Harps 0-0 Longford Town
08/01/88	League	Longford Town 2-1 UCD	OG, O'Neill
15/01/88	League	Longford Town 2-0 EMFA	O'Neill, Morris Burke
22/01/88	League	EMFA 1-1 Longford Town	O'Neill
29/01/88	League	Longford Town 1-1 Finn Harps	P Dempsey
05/02/88	League	Athlone Town 0-1 Longford Town	L Devlin
12/02/88	League	Longford Town 1-1 Monaghan Utd	O'Neill
19/02/88	FAI Cup 4th Round	Ballyfermot Utd 1-1 Longford Town	P Hackett
26/02/88	FAI Cup 4th Round Replay	Longford Town 1-0 Ballyfermot Utd	O'Neill
26/02/88	League	Drogheda Utd 3-1 Longford Town	P Hackett
04/03/88	League	Longford Town 0-1 Home Farm
11/03/88	FAI Cup 5th Round	UCD 1-2 Longford Town	O'Neill (2)
18/03/88	League	Cobh Ramblers 2-0 Longford Town
25/03/88	League	Longford Town 0-0 Newcastlewest
08/04/88	FAI Cup Quarter Final	Longford Town 1-0 Newcastlewest	Malone
15/04/88	FAI Cup Semi Final 1st leg	Longford Town 0-2 Derry City
22/04/88	FAI Cup Semi Final 2nd leg	Derry City 4-2 Longford Town	Morris Burke, G Quigley
29/04/88	League	UCD 2-1 Longford Town	P Hackett

	* Town lose 5-4 on penalties

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