Dungannon Swifts hoping to end league season well

Dungannon Swifts' post-split fixtures: Coleraine (H), Saturday, 28 March, Linfield (H), Tuesday, 7 April, Glentoran (A), Saturday, 11 April, Cliftonville (A), Saturday 18 April, Larne (A), Saturday, 25 April

With back-to-back top half finishes achieved for Dungannon Swifts, they will hope to end the league season as strongly as possible as well as retain the Irish Cup.

Rodney McAree's men finished fourth last year, but are too far behind the top four to replicate that this time around.

Instead, they will aim to pip Cliftonville, who are a point ahead of them, into fifth place which may bring home advantage for the play-offs, but it will be a tough ask with their final three games away from home, including a game at Solitude.

That fifth place finish may not be necessary depending on if they keep hold of the Irish Cup and McAree will have to strike a balance between keeping players fit and firing and rotation with the semi-final of the competition against the Reds to come.