The Belfast Charity Cup was a football competition which ran from 1883 to 1941, and was based on a similar tournament in
Scotland
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, the
Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup
The Glasgow Merchants' Charity Cup was a knockout football tournament open to teams from in and around Glasgow and later on in the tournament's history, teams from outwith Glasgow. Invitations were made and sent out by the Glasgow Charity Cu ...
. The competition was open to senior sides from Belfast and invited intermediate teams.
The last tournament was played in 1940. The following year, instead of the tournament being played, the holders
Belfast Celtic played a representative match against players with cross-channel experience. The representative team won 3-1.
List of finals
Key:
Performance by club
Sources
*Malcolm Brodie, "100 Years of Irish Football", Blackstaff Press, Belfast (1980)
References
External links
Irish League Archive - Belfast Charity Cup
{{Association football cup competitions in Ireland
Defunct association football cup competitions in Northern Ireland