Final Standings

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
*Belfast Bulls	8	7	1	0	144	56	14
*Dublin Rebels	8	5	2	1	234	90	11
*Carrickfergus Knights	8	5	2	1	291	114	11
*Cork Admirals	8	3	5	0	174	188	6
University of Limerick Vikings	8	3	5	0	96	174	6
Dublin Dragons	8	0	8	0	8	301	0

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
14.08.2005	Belfast Bulls	31	Cork Admirals	0
14.08.2005	Dublin Rebels	26	Carrickfergus Knights	20
	Shamrock Bowl XIX		(Grafton Arena, Belfast)
28.08.2005	Belfast Bulls	19	Dublin Rebels	26

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
20.02.2005	UL Vikings	0	Dublin Rebels	30
	Week 2
06.03.2005	Belfast Bulls	16	UL Vikings	8
	Week 3
13.03.2005	Belfast Bulls	22	Dublin Rebels	14
13.03.2005	UL Vikings	26	Cork Admirals	22
	Week 4
20.03.2005	Dublin Dragons	0	UL Vikings	28
	Week 5
03.04.2005	Cork Admirals	22	Carrickfergus Knights	46
03.04.2005	UL Vikings	20	Dublin Dragons	0
	Week 6
10.04.2005	UL Vikings	0	Belfast Bulls	14
	Week 7
17.04.2005	Cork Admirals	p	UL Vikings	p
17.04.2005	Dublin Rebels	8	Carrickfergus Knights	8
	Week 8
24.04.2005	Dublin Dragons	0	Belfast Bulls	23
24.04.2005	Carrickfergus Knights	54	UL Vikings	14
	Week 9
22.05.2005	Carrickfergus Knights	0	Belfast Bulls	30
22.05.2005	Dublin Rebels	34	Cork Admirals	20
	Week 10
29.05.2005	Dublin Rebels	50	Dublin Dragons	0
	Week 11
05.06.2005	Belfast Bulls	20	Cork Admirals	0
	Week 12
12.06.2005	Carrickfergus Knights	32	Dublin Rebels	20
	Week 13
19.06.2005	Dublin Dragons	0	Cork Admirals	6
	Week 14
03.07.2005	Belfast Bulls	19	Carrickfergus Knights	8
	Week 15
10.07.2005	Dublin Dragons	8	Dublin Rebels	52
	Week 16
17.07.2005	Cork Admirals	54	Dublin Dragons	0
	Week 17
24.07.2005	Dublin Rebels	26	Belfast Bulls	0
24.07.2005	Cork Admirals	12	Carrickfergus Knights	62
	Week 18
31.07.2005	Carrickfergus Knights	68	Dublin Dragons	0
31.07.2005	Cork Admirals	38	UL Vikings	0

Note: 2 Pts Win, 1 Pts Tie, 0 Loss

Report

The 2005 IAFL season featured the same 6 teams as in 2004.

The Belfast Bulls showed how far they had come in such a short time, going 7-1 to claim the league title, ahead of the Dublin Rebels & Carrickfergus Knights on 5-2-1. Joining them in the playoffs were the Cork Admirals, who finished ahead of the much improved UL Vikings on tie-breaker after both teams had finished 3-5. Dublin Dragons propped up the table, losing all 8 matches.

Belfast Bulls won through to the Shamrock Bowl with a relatively easy win over the Cork Admirals, while the other Semi_Final was a thriller yet again between the Carrickfergus Knights and Dublin Rebels, with the Rebels winning 26-20.

The Shamrock Bowl itself was to prove a case of experience over youth, with the Rebels coming out on top 26-19 in another thriller against the Belfast Bulls.

References

Websites

[1] Irish American Football Association (2003) IAFL Logo [Internet] Available from: http://americanfootball.ie/iafl/images/logo.gif [Accessed 11 December 2017]

[2] Irish American Football Association (2005) 2005 LEAGUE TABLE, FIXTURES & RESULTS [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/iafl/2005results.htm [Accessed 24 September 2016]

[3] Irish American Football Association (2018) Shamrock Bowl History [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/american-football/shamrock-bowl-history/ [Accessed 16 April 2018]

Images

[3] American Football Ireland Facebook (2020) Photo, May 6, 2020: Shamrock Bowl XIX Logo “This weeks Shamrock Bowl throwback will be the 2005 nail bitter between the Dublin Rebels and the Belfast Bulls which was played at Deramore Park in Belfast. “ [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/96526942_3230254000341811_5182193439252414464_n.png?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=QytfUYiPaiIAX8thM08&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=f1db650dec2092d9b34a6bdb496cbea8&oe=5EE26B90 [Accessed 15 May 2020]

Videos

[4] You Tube Belfast Harlequins RFC Channel (2020) Shamrock Bowl XIX [Internet] Available from: https://youtu.be/98mJ8kptN_c [Accessed 31 January 2021]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Cillian Smith, Michael Smith and Ralph Schmeer of the Irish American Football Association and Irish American Football Officials Association, and Sean Douglas, Dublin Rebels.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 15 May 2020

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