1945–46 Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup

1945–46 Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup
Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland; Republic of Ireland
Teams	12
Defending champions	Bohemians
Final positions
Champions	Shamrock Rovers (2nd title)
Runner-up	Belfast Celtic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	109 (4.19 per match)
	← 1944–45 1946–47 →

The 1945–46 Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup was the 5th edition of the Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup, an association football cup competition featuring teams from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Teams from outside Dublin and Belfast competed, but played their home matches in either Dublin (if based in the Republic of Ireland) or Belfast (if based in Northern Ireland).^[1]

Shamrock Rovers won the title for the 2nd time, defeating Belfast Celtic 3–2 on aggregate in the two-legged final.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Results

First round

Teams that were at home in the first leg listed on the left.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bohemians¹	2–3	Glentoran	1–0	1–3
Cliftonville	1–7	Shelbourne	1–4	0–3
Distillery	7–1	Cork United	5–0	2–1
Dundalk	2–10	Belfast Celtic	0–5	2–5
Linfield	3–1	Drumcondra¹	2–1	1–0
Shamrock Rovers	6–2	Derry City	5–1	1–1

¹Despite losing their ties, Bohemians and Drumcondra progressed to the quarter-finals as "best losers".

Quarter-finals

Teams that were at home in the first leg listed on the left.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bohemians	2–11	Linfield	1–7	1–4
Distillery	5–4	Drumcondra	4–3	1–1
Shamrock Rovers	7–4	Glentoran	3–1	4–3
Shelbourne	0–10	Belfast Celtic	0–2	0–8