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There's a book on that Europa League campaign - One Night in Dudelange. Was listed for sports book of the year in 2019. I'm biased as the author, but if you want to know more about the club, it's well worth picking up

Fun fact: Erling Haaland played for Molde's U19 side when they played UCD in the UEFA Youth League

Cardiff Met are the same, in the top tier of Welsh domestic football and were in the Europa League only 3 years ago

UCD were actually playing in the 1st Division (2nd Tier) when they played in the Europa League in 2015/16. They qualified due to their fair play record being one of the best in Europe the previous season. They've generally been a bit of a yo yo club in recent years and their attendances would be one of the lowest in the league even by Irish standards. They also use the ground for rugby a number of games in the Women's Rugby World Cup were played there in 2017.

Ciaran Bourke a member of the Dubliners (my favourite band) went to this university to study Agriculture but he dropped out after one year having spent all his funds on alcohol. He then joined the band and went onto be successful. I also played this team on Fifa15 where they were the worst rated team on the game and took them to winning the champions league beating Liverpool and Barcelona during their peaks.

Kevin Moran (Man U and Ireland) played for UCD

The fact they are in the top division with that model is an incredible achievement. Especially when basically all the other clubs have a full time set up in that league. From what you see results wise to teams don't get it easy when they play them away despite the league table looking the way it does.

UCD are a great club here in Ireland, alot of the leagues greatest players made their breakthrough at UCD. The likes of Ronan Finn, Greg Bolger, Liam Scales, Robbie Benson etc are just some of the big names that began their career at the club. Their fan base is quite small with most of their home attendances coming from away support particularly when the bigger clubs come to play. The facilities they have on offer for the players are world class being based on the huge university campus. As a Shamrock Rovers fan my self I always enjoy visits to the UCD Bowl. Great video Sam looking forward to some more, You will probably notice in your time here that football is very under appreciated in Ireland unless you are talking about the premier league

Maybe off topic but if you're in Dublin again do the tour of Croke park even just for yourself

You have to visit Cliftonville fc based in North Belfast Sam (they are Irelands oldest team).

Another brilliant video sam- of course I am away on holidays when you go to my club😂 Just my luck! Enjoy your time in Ireland. UCD are a very interesting club and they have produced some great talent. A notable one I'd Liam Kerrigan who moved to serie B in Italy a couple of days ago!

I really wanna go to Ireland now 🇮🇪

Great video. Looking forward to seeing more LOI sides

Derry City have a lot of history that’s a club you should visit

Bring me so many memories of playing with them in career mode and winning the treble with them

Great video again looks like nice weather 🚜🚜🚜🚜

Found this really intriguing! Great vlog

Hi mate, loving all your vlogs. I'm from sligo. When you're coming here on July, you should come to my village of Enniscrone in sligo. You'll be very impressed with our little ground. You'd be most welcome.

Great to see irish football getting some coverage, if you make it up north to watch derry city give me a shout I'll be happy to show you around

Fair Play bro, im following you since the start nice to see our league getting Coverage WE ARE BOHS! Thanks.

Watching a video about a team in Ireland and hearing Berwicks name. Absolutely love it 🙌

I remember UCD drawing Everton in the 1st Round of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 84/85 season. Everton scrapped through 1-0 if I remember correctly. I'm sure the UCD manager said..heaven help us.

Hi Sam. Sligo Rovers fan here . You mentioned your coming to Sligo soon. Please let me know if you would like someone to show you around the showgrounds or look at our museum. We could get someone to meet you to explain the history of the club like when we signed Dixie Dean from Everton!! Love your videos, I have been following your channel for good few years now . Had little or no interest in Scottish football but I have adopted Airdrie as a team I follow now basically because their ground is similar how the showgrounds will be developed over the next few years. Thanks Michael

If you're gonna be crossing between Northern Ireland and Ireland and want an interesting or as you phrased it weird or wonderful football story you should visit Magheraveeley FC's home pitch which is in the Republic of Ireland. They're the only Northern Irish club to play their home games in Ireland

I think they have the longest football club name In the world, technically its. National University of ireland University college Dublin athletic football club.

Looking forward to the St.Pats one !

I live in Dublin and support Shelbourne but I think you should go to a Finn Harps game in Donegal. I'd love to see your experience there. When you are in Belfast you could travel over to Derry, the Brandywell, and then on to Ballybofey, the home of Finn Harps.

Larne FC in N. Ireland are and interesting team. Founded in 1889 and plays its home matches at Inver Park. They were a 2nd division midtabe team form many years with not much hope for advancement. After being taken over by Purplebricks co-founder Kenny Bruce in October 2018 the club finally lifted the 2018-19 NIFL Championship title. This was the club's first ever senior tier league title and first senior honour since lifting the Ulster Cup in 1988. In 20/21 Larne won eurpean playoff's and got to be in the UEFA Europa Conference League 1st qualifying round where they beat Bala town from Wales, AGF Aarhus from Denmark and lost to F.C. Paços de Ferreira from Portugal in the 3rd round (they would have played Tottenham in the next round). They were able to win the playoff's again this year for the 2ns\d time ever and they will play St Joseph's F.C for Gibraltar soon.

Great video, you should defo look at Finn Harps that’d make a great video

Awesome video!!! Ciao 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Great video. Supporting UCD for 35 years. Main reason for low support is we play on a Friday night where most of the 30k students go home for weekend....plus it’s an upper class area and rugby & gaa are higher on the agenda!

I'd also like to add that Cardiff met university also recently qualified for Europe, are in the welsh top flight and have won actual silverware in the last decade

Quality viewing Sam...showcasing the Irish team's that we never to get to see or hear about here in the UK.

We had team like that also in Malaysia. It's called UiTM FC, although quite a few players are not students. They have been in Malaysia's top tier league for 2 years. Just been relegated last season, now playing in 2nd division. There are also other University teams in the Malaysian league system, but UiTM are the first one to compete in the top tier division.

Probably UCD's most-famous supporter is a man who answers to the name of 'Dave Fanning' - Dave is a lifelong nearby-resident of the area, and is an IRISH MUSIC LEGEND - he still presents a weekend show, on RTÉ [ the 'state' broadcaster ], and Dave was effectively the John Peel, of Ireland - when both were in their pomp. Dave championed U2 in their early years, as he did much new Irish music.

The irish cup is the northern irish version of the fa cup. the old all Ireland league was centered in Belfast and when the leagues split the northern fa kept the name and claimed to be the team representing Ireland.some interesting history involving the split of the fa.Not having ago just thought you might be intrested.lol

I'm from Poland and I support UCD

Thursday evening sees the Mayo Derby between Westport United and Castlebar Celtic. Game kicks off at 7:00 in United Park, Westport, Co. Mayo. Biggest fixture in the county in Mayo's top flight division, the Elvery Sports Super League.

My girlfriend was going to UCD when we met and it was so surreal seeing the campus in a footy adventures video! I love this channel. Please visit Monaghan United. They have a sad but very interesting story. The team was one of the top in Ireland before money issues caused them to drop into the Irish amateur leagues. The stadium is still there and it really shows how quick you can fall in football.

They`ve been knocking around the top of Irish football for sometime , Everton played them in the European Cup Winners Cup in 1984

dude I'm Venezuelan and I always felt attracted and interested in this club, why? I remember playin FIFA 08 way back in time and I press random club and UCD appear on the screen. and idk it's feel weird but I kinda fan of ucd

I went mostly to shamrock rovers matches. 21 matches in tallaght but went to a lot to watch them when they were in the nomadic years going from one ground to another mostly the Rds,tolka park,dalymount park,richmond park.

Brilliant mate fare play to you 👍there support is not very good most there fans are family and friends of the players but they do great work they don't get enough credit for it

I'm 47. And I heard about UCD back in 1984 an 8 year old. How? Because in the 84/85 season my 8 then 9 year old journey home and away with Everton ended in Rotterdam with us winning the European Cup Winners Cup (Google that millennials 😂😂😂) but that journey started with a win over 2 legs against University College Dublin Love this video mate

The University of Glasgow team might be worth a look, as they get to play in the Scottish Cup (If I remember rightly), so have probably had a few games against bigger Scottish clubs they might have done well in

They beat Villarreal 4-3 in a preseason friendly in 2011, with Cazorla, Senna, Capdevila. Dermot Morgan, aka Father Ted, was also a UCD fan!

I used to go to a lot of league of Ireland matches over 30 years,rovers,bohs,pats,shels,ucd,bray wanderers,and teams that doesn't exist anymore sporting fingal and Dublin city.bray have a small but nice ground called the Carlisle ground maybe worth doing a blog there.

great to hear you are heading to Sligo. Finn Harps ground is just up the road - another "unique" stadium but likely to be replaced in the near future.

Cardiff Met play in the Cymru Premier and played in the Europa League in 2019/20

Cardiff Met Uni in Wales did the same a few years back,

Great video I'm like you I love Football grounds.

On your way to Belfast you should stop off in Newry. Newry City FC went out of business in 2013 and a phoenix club called Newry City AFC was formed. They made it back to the Irish Premiership In just 5 years. They've since been relegated but got promotion back to the Premiership again this year. Nice little story.

A name that I will always remember ( along with Fortuna Sitard) from Everton's run to winning the 1985 European Cup Winners Cup.....To put that 0-0 draw into persepective, Everton won the League, EWCWC and missed out on a treble by losig the FA Cup final 1-0 to United...........So, that's a great achievment for UCD.

Hello.from.dublin..well.done

Check out Peaky Bannsiders, father and young son following the ups and downs of Coleraine. They've also covered Derry City during the NI off season.

Great video man. They don't really have any fans, aside from friends and family of the players, and maybe 200 hardcore fans (though that's probably a generous figure) . Away teams always have the bigger slice of overall attendance. So it's quite a unique situation. They are a bit of a yo-yo club like Norwich. Too good for 1st Division usually, but always struggle in the top flight.

Leinster Rugby train there and there is a closed S&C building around the corner where Olympic athletes and professional athletes train separately from the general public or university gym. I done my MSc here and for sports it’s brilliant but academically overall Trinity is perhaps the most prestigious

Ireland is beautiful especially County Antrim we’re Belfast is its outstanding since you’re driving you should start in Belfast and travel up the coast to Derry and Donegal then into Sligo trust me you will not be dissappointed

University was a team in the V.F.L the predecessor to the A.F.L Its first season was in 1908 and departed the V.F.L in 1914, University aka Students/Professors suffered the greatest number of casualty than any other club.

Use to build great road to glories in FIFA with these guys.

I found this story to be strange and fascinating. Here in the US college/university sports are STRICTLY segregated from the professional leagues until an athlete chooses to sign as a professional, at which time they can no longer play for the school. The amateur status of the players is fiercely guarded by the schools (and the NCAA, the governing body for amateur sport in the US). The schools offer free, or reduced, educations in exchange for being able to make money off their athletes efforts. There is HUGE money in amateur sports here in the country (bordering on Usury) and the schools do what they can to rake it into their coffers. The professional leagues then recruit players from the collages, using the schools to develop the players outside of direct involvement. This is one reason why the Academy system has taken so long to develop in this country. MLS was relying on the collegiate system to supply players, rather than invest directly and develop their own homegrowns. The growth to an academy system has been glacial, but has developed (no pun intended) momentum in recent years. The system still needs time before maturity, and what that will mean for those college players hoping to turn pro is still uncertain. This is the United States, we have a habit of walking before we bother studying how to crawl. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Visit Ballinamallard United in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. They used to be in the top division of Northern Ireland but have now dropped to the second. Only good team in County Fermanagh

Cliftonville in North Belfast, if you aren’t already going when visiting next

Cardiff metropolitan university are a very similar story but I'm not sure if they are also restricted to only their students or not

F91 Dudelange actually reached the europa league group stage the season after losing to UCD

The hockey tournament would have been a warm up tournament for the women's World Cup that starts next week

Can you come to Inishowen, Ireland’s most northernly point. Close to Derry and not too far from Finn Harps, Sligo

Looking at this one day after sitting in the stands for a camp

I was at the ucd v f91 dude Lange match back in 2015,so I seen them create a bit of European history.

You should do one on the original Belfast Celtic Would be great and it’s one of they Rare story that you like

Will you be going to the Motherwell and Dundee Utd Qualifier games?

You should do Athletic Club Bilbao cause they only allow players from the Basque region play for them and they've got a fantastic history.

Can you go to the shamrock rovers champions league game against hibernians (Malta not the scottish one) on July 5th

Wow!!!One of my favourite respective Irish footballing club University College Dublin to be playing in the Irish top tier which is a massive achievement for "The Scholars" and I am looking forward to their matches as well as the other respective Irish clubs' respective matches ranging from the top till bottom tiers of the pyramid,good friends!!!LONG LIVE IRISH FOOTBALL!!!🇮🇪

Liam Kerrigan who plays for UCD is singing for Serie B side Como this week

Visit oriel park , Dundalks ground

Come to larne St Joseph's and if they get though come to larne slavia praha

Go to a treaty united match Irish second teir their playing their derby against cork city on Monday 27th

They dont really capitalise on the potential fanbase of students they could have but its not for the want of trying. Also all the students go home during summer so they have such small attendences during summer

Should come to pats vs shamrock rovers tomorrow

Come to cork city next

F91 Dudelange made it to the group stage of the Europa League two seasons running just a few years after losing to UCD. Luxembourg has three official languages, so you can pronounce 'Dudelange' with either a hard or soft "g" sound and claim it's not wrong either way!

Mate, get yourself to cliftonville football club! North Belfast. Their stadium is called solitude. The club has great history 👍🏻.

Come to Shelbourne pal

Hurling stick is just called a Hurly 😁

QUB in Belfast are in the second tier of the Irish League but they beat Glentoran and a few other Irish Premier League sides over the last two years

You need to check out derry City fc

Got to cover Linfield

It says a lot about the quality of the Uni, when they can play top flight football with a squad that only ever signs freshers from their own campus. Seriously impressive model

I wonder how selling players works? Like if an offer came in and the money was substantial enough

play everton in the cup winners cup 1984 used home farm ground for the home leg

You have to do dalymount park

Come to pats vs rovers tomorrow

Are you coming to sligo vs shelbourne ?

you have to try and get to croke park for a hurling game , i guarantee it will blow your mind for an amueter sport

Go to dalymount. Proper old school ground, and great people working there who would be more than happy to let you have a look around

Well it a same in Cymru league, Cardiff metropolitan University

You should get to the European games here .. they'll be some fantastic games, watched the game the other night unfortunately quality wise it was a poor game but great atmosphere, wasn't a true reflection of the league...

Mate you need to visit my country Gibraltar 🇬🇮