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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