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Derry City First Half Goals
In 214 Premier Division matches, 66.4% of Derry City’s first halves produced a goal, 9th of the 13 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 45.3% of them and conceded in 36.0%.
What Derry City’s first halves look like
Travel costs Derry City at the back: 42.1% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 29.9% of home ones. The first goal is usually the last one before the break: a second follows only 34% of the time against 44% division-wide.
Most of the early scoring in Derry City’s matches is their own doing. They find the net before the break in 45.3% of matches and let one in during 36.0%, 9.3pp apart. Getting two before the break is a stretch in this fixture: 22.4% against 30.3% across the division.
There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 214 matches against a typical 178. Derry City come 9th of 13 in the published Premier Division field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Every figure on this page rests on 214 completed Derry City matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Derry City first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 66.4% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 22.4% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 8.4% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.00 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 45.3% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 36.0% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.59 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.40 |
| Matches counted | 214 |
| Seasons covered | 6 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 64.5% | 23.4% | 46.7% | 29.9% | 0.98 | 107 |
| Away | 68.2% | 21.5% | 43.9% | 42.1% | 1.01 | 107 |
Derry City score before halftime 46.7% of the time at home against 43.9% away, a gap of 2.8pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Derry City against Premier Division
| Line | Derry City | Premier Division | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 66.4% | 68.9% | −2.5pp |
| Over 1.5 | 22.4% | 30.3% | −7.9pp |
| Over 2.5 | 8.4% | 10.3% | −1.9pp |
Counted from 214 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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