[1] In 2014 the Collingwood Cup celebrated its centenary with a dinner that featured Martin O'Neill as a guest speaker.

[2] In 2017, Rustlers became the title sponsor of all Third Level Football Competitions in Ireland[3] including the Collingwood Cup.

The 2018 final was live streamed by the Football Association of Ireland; highlights appeared on Eir Sport and on NVTV.

[4][5][6] In 2017, it was decided to play the first round of the 2018 competition in a week alternative to[clarification needed] the quarter-finals and onwards.

Bertram J. Collingwood (1871–1936), a nephew of Lewis Carroll, was appointed professor of physiology and histology at University College Dublin in 1912.

Both teams then travelled to Belfast to play QUB who eventually emerged as the second winners of the Collingwood Cup.

In 1955 UCG – with a team featuring nine players from County Galway – caused a major shock by beating UCD in the final.

However UCD and QUB quickly reasserted control and they shared all victories between them until Dublin University broke their run with a their win in 1967.

[4][10] In 1976 Kevin Moran was a member the UCD winning team and [11][12] Having played in the inaugural tournament in 1914, University College Galway rejoined the competition in the mid-1940s.

In 1955, with a team featuring nine players from County Galway, UCG caused a major shock when they defeated UCD in the final.

In 1979 with a team featuring Hugo MacNeill and coached by Liam Tuohy, Dublin University won the Collingwood Cup outright for a second time.

[4] In 2011, with a team featuring Josh O'Shea and Michael McSweeney and managed by John Caulfield, UCC won the Collingwood Cup again.

In 1980, when the Collingwood Cup was held in Belfast as part of the Irish Football Association's centenary celebrations, Ulster Polytechnic won the tournament for the first time.

In 2001 UUJ won the Collingwood Cup for a fourth time and in 2006 they defeated the hosts, UCC, in the final on penalties.

Ulster University initially wanted to enter a single team featuring players from three of their campuses – Coleraine, Jordanstown and Magee.

In addition St Pat's captain, Ger O'Brien, and their goalkeeper, Brendan Clarke, managed and coached the team during their Collingwood Cup campaign.

[23] Seán Hoare captained the Maynooth team and scored the winner as they knocked out the tournament favourites, UCD, in the quarter-final by a 2–1 scoreline.

One legend claims that it was thrown into the River Boyne by a QUB team who were travelling south for a tournament they had no chance of winning.

Another legend claims that a landlady accepted the cup from a UCD captain in lieu of rent due to her.