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Manager Martin Murray was entering his first season in charge, having replaced Terry Eviston during the summer. It was Dundalk’s second season in the second tier of Irish football, and their 75th consecutive season in the League of Ireland.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsSeason summary[edit]First-Team Squad (2000\u201301)[edit]Competitions[edit]League Cup[edit]Leinster Senior Cup[edit]FAI Cup[edit]First Division[edit]League table[edit]References[edit]Season summary[edit]Following the financial difficulties of the mid- and late-1990s, and relegation for the first time at the end of the 1998\u201399 season, the club had been taken over by the Dundalk F.C. Co-operative in March 2000,[1] returning it to a supporter-owned, membership-based company model. The previous season there had been expectations of an immediate return to the top-flight, but a poor start left them struggling to catch the leaders and, with a play-off spot seemingly secured, the club became embroiled in a losing battle with the league’s hierarchy and Kilkenny City. The row, over Kilkenny playing an improperly registered player, reached the High Court, who sided with Kilkenny thus handing them the play-off spot.[2]Relegation in 1999 had resulted in a large turnover of players \u2013 31 different players making League appearances in the 1999\u20132000 season alone. With new ownership, and a new manager, there was more of the same. A number of local players had been retained from the previous season’s squad, but another ten players were signed before and during the season, so that 21 players in total would make league starts. The previous season’s disappointment, and the number of players coming and going, meant that hopes were low going into the new season.[3] The 36-match schedule got under way on 11 August 2000, and Dundalk had a promising start, leading by the end of the month.[4] But a slump in form saw them risk losing touch with fellow pace-setters, Athlone Town, obliging Murray to bring more players in.[5] A victory over Athlone in November, and a five-game winning streak, kept the gap to four points as the other sides fell away.[6]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The season was nearly derailed, however, when the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak lead to an exclusion zone being put in place around County Louth.[7] Many public events were postponed or cancelled, and Dundalk went the whole of March without playing a match. They had beaten Shelbourne in the first round of the Leinster Senior Cup, but the crisis saw the competition ultimately abandoned for the season, and it would be 2010 before it was revived.[8] In the second round of the FAI Cup they had been drawn against non-league Malahide United, and the game had been postponed four times as the crisis wore on. At the fifth attempt, the match was played behind closed doors at a neutral venue, and Dundalk were knocked out in the first match they had played in over five weeks.[9] Two heavy league defeats followed as they struggled to get back up to speed, with home matches having to be played in United Park in Drogheda. But four wins in a row, including a 2\u20131 victory over Athlone in the first match played in Oriel Park in over two months,[10] meant Dundalk had won the First Division title (their first), and secured promotion back to the Premier Division for 2001\u201302 with a game to spare.[11]First-Team Squad (2000\u201301)[edit]Sources:[12]Competitions[edit]League Cup[edit]Source:[13]GroupDid not qualifyLeinster Senior Cup[edit]Source:[13]First RoundCompetition subsequently abandonedFAI Cup[edit]Source:[13]First RoundSecond RoundFirst Division[edit]Source:[13]Limerick v Dundalk11 August 2000 Round 1 Limerick 1\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v St Francis16 August 2000 Round 2 Dundalk 2\u20130 St Francis Drogheda United v Dundalk18 August 2000 Round 3 Drogheda United 0\u20133 Dundalk Dundalk v Monaghan United26 August 2000 Round 4 Dundalk 2\u20130 Monaghan United Dundalk v Waterford United31 August 2000 Round 5 Dundalk 1\u20130 Waterford United Sligo Rovers v Dundalk5 September 2000 Round 6 Sligo Rovers 2\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v Home Farm9 September 2000 Round 7 Dundalk 3\u20131 Home Farm Athlone Town v Dundalk17 September 2000 Round 8 Athlone Town 1\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v Cobh Ramblers30 September 2000 Round 9 Dundalk 2\u20132 Cobh Ramblers Dundalk v Limerick5 October 2000 Round 10 Dundalk 1\u20131 Limerick St Francis v Dundalk13 October 2000 Round 11 St Francis 2\u20136 Dundalk Dundalk v Drogheda United19 October 2000 Round 12 Dundalk 1\u20130 Drogheda United Monaghan United v Dundalk29 October 2000 Round 13 Monaghan United 1\u20131 Dundalk Waterford United v Dundalk3 November 2000 Round 14 Waterford United 1\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v Sligo Rovers9 November 2000 Round 15 Dundalk 3\u20131 Sligo Rovers Home Farm v Dundalk18 November 2000 Round 16 Home Farm 2\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v Athlone Town23 November 2000 Round 17 Dundalk 3\u20130 Athlone Town Cobh Ramblers v Dundalk3 December 2000 Round 18 Cobh Ramblers 3\u20132 Dundalk Dundalk v St Francis14 December 2000 Round 19 Dundalk 7\u20130 St Francis Drogheda United v Dundalk22 December 2000 Round 20 Drogheda United 0\u20133 Dundalk Dundalk v Waterford United13 January 2001 Round 21 Dundalk 1\u20130 Waterford United Sligo Rovers v Dundalk20 January 2001 Round 22 Sligo Rovers 1\u20131 Dundalk Dundalk v Home Farm25 January 2001 Round 23 Dundalk 0\u20131 Home Farm Dundalk v Monaghan United31 January 2001 Round 24 Dundalk 1\u20130 Monaghan United Athlone Town v Dundalk9 February 2001 Round 25 Athlone Town 1\u20132 Dundalk Dundalk v Limerick15 February 2001 Round 26 Dundalk 0\u20130 Limerick Dundalk v Cobh Ramblers18 February 2001 Round 27 Dundalk 3\u20132 Cobh Ramblers St Francis v Dundalk23 February 2001 Round 28 St Francis 1\u20131 Dundalk Monaghan United v Dundalk8 April 2001 Round 29 Monaghan United 0\u20134 Dundalk Waterford v Dundalk10 April 2001 Round 30 Waterford 1\u20132 Dundalk Dundalk v Sligo Rovers14 April 2001 Round 31 Dundalk 2\u20135 Sligo Rovers Home Farm v Dundalk21 April 2001 Round 32 Home Farm 1\u20132 Dundalk Limerick v Dundalk24 April 2001 Round 33 Limerick 0\u20132 Dundalk Dundalk v Athlone Town28 April 2001 Round 34 Dundalk 2\u20131 Athlone Town Dundalk v Drogheda United1 May 2001 Round 35 Dundalk 1\u20130 Drogheda United Cobh Ramblers v Dundalk6 May 2001 Round 36 Cobh Ramblers 1\u20130 Dundalk League table[edit]Source:www.rsssf.comReferences[edit]BibliographyMurphy, Jim (2003). The History of Dundalk F.C.: The First 100 Years. Dundalgan Press. ASIN\u00a0B0042SO3R2.Graham, Alex. Football in the Republic of Ireland a Statistical Record 1921\u20132005. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN\u00a01-86223-135-4.Citations       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/2000-01-dundalk-f-c-season-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"2000\u201301 Dundalk F.C. season – Wikipedia"}}]}]