Portadown kick off their 2025/2026 campaign when we welcome Glentoran to Shamrock Park this Saturday (9th August), 3pm kick off.

The last time the two sides met was on 30th December 2024 at Shamrock Park with Glentoran running out 2-0 winners thanks to a brace from Jordan Jenkins.

In total Portadown and Glentoran met on three occasions in the Sports Direct Premiership last season with Glentoran winning both meetings at Shamrock Park (2-1 & 2-0) and Niall Currie’s men coming away from the Oval with all three points in a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Shay McCartan and Ryan Mayse.

Glentoran finished third in the Sports Direct Premiership last season as well as losing out to Cliftonville in both the BetMcLean Cup final and the European Play-Off semi final. This summer Glens manager Declan Devine has been busy in the transfer market to try kick on and try and bring success back to the Oval, in have come Liam Burt, Ryan Cooney, Pat Hoban, Daniel Larmour, Jordan Stewart & Peter Urminský while Wassim Aouachria, Jay Donnelly, Dániel Gyollai, Kodi Lyons-Foster, Paddy McClean, Niall McGinn, Theo McToal, Harry Murphy, Fuad Sule & Finley Thorndike have departed.

Both clubs have suspensions impacting their selections tomorrow with Shay McCartan missing out for the Ports while Glentoran have Dylan Connolly, Christie Pattisson and Cammy Palmer all suspended.

The Ports have only scored one goal against Glentoran at Shamrock Park in the last five meetings with the last win over the Glens on home soil coming in December 2015 when we ran out 5-3 winners in one of many classic Ports v Glens games over the years, Ports scorers that evening were Gary Twigg with two, Darren Murray with two and a Robert Garrett goal – Glens goals came from Curtis Allen (2) and Marcus Kane.

Tickets for the game are available via PFC TICKETS – Portadown Football Club

 

Last Five | Head to Head

30 December 2024 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 2 (Jenkins 2)

16 November 2024 | Glentoran 0 Portadown 2 (McCartan, Mayse)

17 August 2024 | Portadown 1 (Mayse) Glentoran 2 (Jenkins, McGinn)

1 April 2023 | Glentoran 5 (J.Donnelly 3, Purkis 2) Portadown (L.Wilson)

4 February 2023 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 3 (J.Donnelly 2, McGinn)

 

Last Five | Shamrock Park:

30 December 2024 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 2 (Jenkins 2)

17 August 2024 | Portadown 1 (Mayse) Glentoran 2 (Jenkins, McGinn)

4 February 2023 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 3 (J.Donnelly 2, McGinn)

26 November 2022 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 2 (S.Murray, B.Burns)

26 August 2022 | Portadown 0 Glentoran 3 (McMenamin, Singleton, Plum)

 

Players to watch:

Ahu Obhakhan— Ended the 24/25 season with 11 goals in 40 games

Jordan Jenkins — Ended the 24/25 season with 18 goals in 48 games