in 36 games (2.42 per game), 2018 Best offensive League season: 64 goals scored in 22 games (2.91 per game), 1930–31 85 goals scored in 36 games (2.36 per game), 2018 Best defensive League season: 13 goals conceded in 30 games (0.43 per game), 1979–80 Biggest Goal Difference in a League season: +65, 2018 Record League sequences: Consecutive wins: 13, 2018 Consecutive losses: 11, 1998–99 (last eight games) and 1999–00 (first three games) Consecutive draws: 10, 2005 Longest undefeated run: 24 games, 2019 Longest run of clean sheets: 8 games, 2018 Longest run without a win: 19 games, 2002–03 (10 games) through 2003 (nine games) Club milestones Landmark firsts 12 December 1903: Dundalk G.N.R. A.F.C. first recorded match (v Dundalk Wanderers, Fairgreen Dundalk) 10 February 1906: First match in Dundalk and District League (v St. Nicholas's, Polo Field, Dundalk) 6 September 1919: First match for re-constituted Dundalk G.N.R. – in Newry and District League (v Newry United) 7 October 1922: First match in Leinster Senior League (away v Inchicore United) 21 August 1926: First match in Free State League (away v Fordsons) 21 August 1926: First goal in Free State League (Joey Quinn v Fordsons) 19 September 1926: First win in Free State League (home v Jacobs) 20 April 1929: First Dundalk player capped for Ireland (Bob Egan v Belgium, Dalymount Park) 18 April 1931: First FAI Cup Final (v Shamrock Rovers, Dalymount Park) 9 September 1931: First Trophy (President's Cup v Shamrock Rovers, Dalymount Park) 23 August 1936: First match in Oriel Park (v Cork F.C.) 26 April 1942: First FAI Cup Final win (v Cork United, Dalymount Park) 26 December 1950: First Leinster Senior Cup Final win (v St Patrick's Athletic, Dalymount Park) 11 September 1963: First match in Europe (v FC Zurich in Dalymount Park) 25 September 1963: First victory in Europe (away v FC Zurich) 20 September 1967: First European match, and first match under lights in Oriel Park (v Vasas SC) 12 April 1978: First League Cup Final win (v Cork Alberts, Flower Lodge) 22 April 1979: First League & Cup Double 15 August 1999: First match in League of Ireland First Division 25 August 2005: First match on artificial surface in Oriel Park (v Drogheda United FAI Cup) 15 September 2016: First match in group stage of European competition (away v AZ Alkmaar) Landmark matches & goals 27 September 1931: 100th League match (away