FAI Cup | |
Year: | 2017 |
Other Titles: | FAI Irish Daily Mail Cup |
Defending Champions: | Cork City |
Champions: | Cork City (4th title) |
Runner-Up: | Dundalk |
Matches: | 40 |
Goals: | 133 |
Prevseason: | 2016 |
Nextseason: | 2018 |
The 2017 FAI Senior Challenge Cup was the 97th season of the knockout national Football competition of the Republic of Ireland. The winners of this season's cup earned a place in the 2018–19 Europa League and would have entered in the first qualifying round.[1]
Cork City were the defending champions and went on to retain the cup after a 5-3 win on penalties against Dundalk in the final on 5 November.[2] [3]
The tournament began the weekend of 30 April 2017 with the preliminary round, which was contested by sixteen non-league clubs.[4]
Round | Clubs remaining | Clubs involved | Winners from previous round | New entries this round | Leagues entering at this round | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preliminary round | 40 | 16 | N/A | 16 | Leinster Senior League Munster Senior League Best Western Southern Hotel Super League | |
First round | 32 | 32 | 8 | 24 | League of Ireland Leinster Senior League | |
Second round | 16 | 16 | 16 | none | none | |
Quarter-Finals | 8 | 8 | 8 | none | none | |
Semi-Finals | 4 | 4 | 4 | none | none | |
Final | 2 | 2 | 2 | none | none |
The draw for the preliminary round was held 15 March 2017.[4]
The first round was played between the eight first round winners, the four clubs which received byes in the preliminary round, and the twenty League of Ireland clubs.[5] The first round draw was held on 21 July 2017.[6]
The second round draw was held on 14 August 2017.[7]
The quarter-finals draw was held on 28 August 2017.[8]
The semi-finals draw was held on 11 September 2017.[9]
See main article: 2017 FAI Cup Final.