IWP National League Womens Division 1 2016-17

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
St. Vincent’s (C)	10	10	0	0	176	69	30
Tribes	10	6	0	4	90	91	18
Donegall Diamonds	10	5	0	5	107	112	15
Cathal Brugha #	10	5	0	5	85	71	15
Trinity	10	2	0	8	79	143	6
Glenalbyn (R)	10	2	0	8	74	125	6

IWP National League Womens Division 1 2017-18

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
St. Vincent’s B	14	14	0	0	235	61	42
Trinity	14	8	1	5	102	108	25
Diamonds A	14	7	3	4	155	120	24
Tribes	14	7	1	6	129	109	22
Clontarf	14	7	1	6	96	94	22
St. Vincent’s A	14	4	0	10	114	153	12
Cathal Brugha #	13	4	2	7	93	93	10
Diamonds B #	13	0	0	13	33	219	-4

IWP WNL Division 1 2018-19

IWP WNL D1 2018-19	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
St. Vincent’s (C)	12	12	0	0	187	67	36
Clontarf	12	9	0	3	112	84	27
Cathal Brugha	11	7	0	4	93	74	21
Trinity	12	5	0	7	95	101	15
Diamonds B	11	4	0	7	80	107	12
Tribes (R)	12	3	0	9	73	134	9
Diamonds A (R)	11	1	0	11	62	135	3

IWP WNL D1 2019-20

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
St. Vincent’s	9	8	0	1	133	56	24
Cathal Brugha	9	5	1	3	89	85	16
Clontarf	6	4	0	2	47	39	12
Trinity	8	3	1	4	55	69	10
Diamonds	10	0	0	10	59	134	0

Season Information

Points System: 3 Pts Win / 1 Pt Draw / 0 Pts Loss / -4 Pts Forfeit #

Tie-Breaker: head-to-head aggregate score over two matches. (C) Champions (R) Relegated to Division 2.

Report

St. Vincent’s of Glasnevin, Dublin, were the dominant team in Irish Women’s Water Polo from 2016-17 to 2018-19, winning all their league matches every year, indeed their B team, promoted at the end of 2016-17 from Division 2 proved even more formidable than their A team, having won all matches in Division 2 in 2016-17 they proceeded to win all their games in Division 1 in 2017-18, including their A team, defending Champions, twice. With the teams shuffled around for 2018-19 and one of the St. Vincent’s teams back in Division 2, they again won all games that year.

St. Vincent’s were finally defeated in 2019-20, in their fifth game of the season, 9-10 by Clontarf, although held an advantage over Clontarf of a 9-0-1 Wins-Draws-Losses Record to Clontarf’s 4-0-2 Record when the League was cancelled due to COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic government restrictions. The winning streak lasted 40 games over 3 and a third years, including the B teams’ dominance of 2017-18, although technically they were separate teams, albeit from the same club.

References / Further Reading

Images

[1] Ireland Water Polo (2014) Ireland Water Polo Logo [Internet] Available from: https://irelandwaterpolo.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ireland-water-polo.png [Accessed 21 February 2017]

Websites

[2] Ireland Water Polo (2017) National League Tables 2016/17 [Internet] Available from http://www.waterpolo.ie/national-league-tables.html [Accessed 18 April 2017]

Internet Archive

[3] Ireland Water Polo – Wayback Machine (2015) National League Tables 2017/18 [Internet] Availabble from: http://web.archive.org/web/20180918095423/http://www.waterpolo.ie/national-league-tables-2017-18.html [Accessed 18 September 2018]

Websites

[4] Ireland Water Polo (2019) National League Tables 2018/19 [Internet] Available from http://www.waterpolo.ie/national-league-tables.html [Accessed 8 May 2019]

[5] Ireland Water Polo (2020) National League Tables 2019/20 [Internet] Available from: http://www.waterpolo.ie/national-league-tables.html [Accessed 28 April 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Caoimhe Mullaney.

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