League Table

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
*Dublin Rebels	8	7	1	0	300	88	38
*Carrickfergus Knights	8	6	1	1	289	81	37
*Belfast Bulls	8	4	3	1	161	107	33
*Dublin Dragons	8	3	5	0	91	229	30
Cork Admirals	8	3	5	0	124	281	27
University of Limerick Vikings	8	0	8	0	35	213	21

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Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
15.08.2004	Dublin Rebels	38	Dublin Dragons	12
15.08.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	23	Belfast Bulls	0
	Shamrock Bowl XVIII
29.08.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	22	Dublin Rebels	24

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Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
29.02.2004	UL Vikings	5	Cork Admirals	19
	Week 2
07.03.2004	Dublin Dragons	8	UL Vikings	7
	Week 3
21.03.2004	Belfast Bulls	0	Carrickfergus Knights	19
	Week 4
28.03.2004	UL Vikings	9	Dublin Dragons	18
	Week 5
04.04.2004	Dublin Rebels	50	UL Vikings	0
08.04.2004	Cork Admirals	13	UL Vikings	0
	Week 6
18.04.2004	UL Vikings	0 #	Dublin Rebels	30
18.04.2004	Belfast Bulls	20	Dublin Dragons	12
	Week 7
25.04.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	47	UL Vikings	7
25.04.2004	Dublin Dragons	26	Cork Admirals	12
	Week 8
09.05.2004	UL Vikings	7	Belfast Bulls	28
09.05.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	42	Dublin Rebels	14
	Week 9
16.05.2004	Cork Admirals	0	Carrickfergus Knights	60
	Week 10
23.05.2004	Dublin Rebels	12	Dublin Dragons	6
06.06.2004	Belfast Bulls	30	Cork Admirals	0 #
	Week 11
13.06.2004	Cork Admirals	12	Dublin Rebels	88
	Week 12
20.06.2004	Dublin Dragons	0	Belfast Bulls	35
20.06.2004	Dublin Rebels	26	Carrickfergus Knights	12
	Week 13
04.07.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	20	Belfast Bulls	13
	Week 14
11.07.2004	Dublin Rebels	52	Cork Admirals	0
	Week 15
18.07.2004	Cork Admirals	68	Dublin Dragons	20
	Week 16
25.07.2004	Dublin Dragons	0	Carrickfergus Knights	66
	Week 17
01.08.2004	Carrickfergus Knights	21	Belfast Bulls	21
	Week 18
08.08.2004	Belfast Bulls	14	Dublin Rebels	28

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5 Pts Win / 4 Pts Tie / 3 Loss / 0 Pts Forfeit #

Report

The 2004 IAFL season featured 6 teams as Divisions 1 & 2 from 2003 were merged into one 11-man League, with Belfast Bulls & UL Vikings making the step up from the 8-man Division 2, and only Craigavon Cowboys remaining as an 8-man team with 2nds teams.

Dublin Rebels and Carrickfergus Knights again proved the top teams, losing only to each other as the Rebels finished on 7-1 and the Knights on 6-1-1. Joining them in the playoffs were the Belfast Bulls, with an impressive 4-3-1 record in their first season in this level, and the Dublin Dragons who finished ahead of Cork Admirals on a tie-breaker, both teams finishing 3-5. UL Vikings struggled and finished bottom, losing all 8 matches.

The Semi-Finals finished with predictable wins for the Dublin Rebels (38-12 against Dublin Dragons) and Carrickfergus Knights (23-0 over Belfast Bulls), and Shamrock Bowl XVIII proved a thriller, with the Rebels edging the contest 24-22 in a see-saw battle, which was the closest margin of victory since the Dublin Celts beat the Antrim Bulldogs 7-6 in 1989.

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 (2004) 2004 LEAGUE TABLE, FIXTURES & RESULTS [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/iafl/2004results.htm [Accessed 24 September 2016]

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.

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