2025 League of Ireland Premier Division

The 2025 League of Ireland Premier Division, known as the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division for sponsorship reasons, is the 41st season of the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top Irish league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1985.

The competition began on 14 February 2025 and is set to conclude on 1 November 2025. As part of the opening weekend of fixtures, the derby between arch-rivals Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers took place at the Aviva Stadium, the national football stadium of the Republic of Ireland where a record Premier Division crowd of 33,208 was present. The 2025 season became the first year that the league is entirely made up of full-time professional clubs and players.

On 27 January 2025, it was announced that Virgin Media Television (Ireland) would become the "sole and exclusive free to air broadcaster of the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division" for the next four years, pledging to show one live game from each round of the division. A new radio deal for broadcasting on Newstalk was announced just before the season started.

Teams

The league consists of ten teams – the top nine teams from the previous season and one team promoted as champions from the First Division, Cork City. They replaced Dundalk, who were relegated after 16 consecutive seasons in the top flight.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

League table

Results

Teams play each other four times (twice at home and twice away).

Positions by round

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.

Season statistics

Clean sheets

As of 28 March 2025

Discipline

Player

Most yellow cards: 6
- Charlie Lyons (Cork City)

Most red cards: 1
- Freddie Anderson (Cork City)
- Barry Baggley (St Patrick's Athletic)
- Ryan Burke (Waterford)
- Rob Cornwall (Bohemians)
- Jake Doyle-Hayes (Sligo Rovers)
- Cian Kavanagh (Sligo Rovers)
- Ed McGinty (Shamrock Rovers)
- Danny Mullen (Sligo Rovers)
- Conor Reynolds (Sligo Rovers)
- Carl Winchester (Derry City)