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UCD's season started on 4 February when UCD lost to Shamrock Rovers 4–1 in the Leinster Senior Cup. [1] Their first LOI Premier Division match was on 17 February against Dundalk . [ 2 ] They failed to win any of their first 9 Premier Division matches (17 February – 10 April). [ 2 ]
UCD's performance was made all the more remarkable by the fact that, at the end of the year, Everton were voted the best club side in the world for 1985 by the managers of world national teams. That season saw UCD finish fourth in the league, but they were then forced to release many of their best players due to financial difficulties.
In 1993 when the AIB League was expanded to four divisions to include 46 senior clubs, UCD and four other university clubs joined the league. [citation needed] In 2001 UCD won the AIB League Division 2 title, gaining promotion to Division 1. They have continued to play in the same division until the 2008–09 season when they finished second ...
The Super League (formerly known as SuperLeague and Premier League) is the top-tier men's basketball league in Ireland. The league has 14 teams (12 in the Republic of Ireland and two in Northern Ireland ).
Super League XXII commenced on 9 February 2017 and ended on 7 October with the Super League Grand Final. It consisted of 23 regular season games and 7 rounds of relevant play-offs following which there were two play-off semi-finals and the grand final.
UCD, the eleventh placed team from the Premier Division played off against Galway, the winner of the 2014 First Division play off, to decide who would play in the 2015 Premier Division. [ 5 ] UCD v Galway
Four teams have won the Grand Final during the history of the Super League, with the Wigan Warriors being the current holders. St Helens are the most successful team in the Super League era, with ten titles. In the first two seasons of Super League, the champion was determined by league position at the end of the season.
The 2024 U.S. News & World Report ranked UCD as the second best university in Ireland and 253rd globally. [75] UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is ranked 22nd in the Financial Times' ranking of leading European Business Schools in 2022 and 1st in Ireland. [80] UCD was The Sunday Times University of the Year 2006 and 2020. [81]