This page details football records in the Northern Ireland.

League

Team records

Titles

*Most top-flight league titles: 56, Linfield *Most consecutive league titles: 6, joint record: **

Belfast Celtic Belfast Celtic Football Club was a football club. Founded in 1891 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, it was one of the most successful teams in Ireland until it withdrew permanently from the Irish League in 1949. The club left the league for polit ...

( 1935–36 to 1947–48, league suspended from 1940 to 1947) ** Linfield ( 1981–82 to 1986–87)

Top-flight Appearances

*Most seasons in the top flight: 121, joint record: ** Cliftonville (1890–present) **

Glentoran Glentoran Football Club is a professional football club that plays in the NIFL Premiership. The club was founded in 1882. History Early history In 1914, Glentoran won the Vienna Cup, becoming the first United Kingdom team to win a European t ...

(1890–present) ** Linfield (1890–present)

Overall top flight League Table (since 2008)

The overall top flight League table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the 14 completed seasons of the top flight in its current format - namely the IFA/NIFL Premiership since its inception in the 2008–09 season. Teams in bold are part of the 2022–23 season. Numbers in bold are the record numbers in each column. ''All seasons were played over 38 games, except the 2019–20 season which was played over 31 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland.'' League or status:

Irish Cup

*Most wins: 44, Linfield *Most consecutive wins: 4,

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1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

) *Most appearances in a final: 64, Linfield *Most consecutive appearances in a final: 5, Linfield (1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 & 1895) *Most defeats in a final: 21, Linfield *Most consecutive defeats in a final: 3, Linfield (1975, 1976 & 1977) *Biggest win in a final: Linfield 10–1

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(1895) *Longest gap between wins in a final: 70 years, Cliftonville (1909 and

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

) *Longest gap between appearances in a final: 55 years, Bangor (1938 and

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

) *Most appearances in a final without winning: 6,

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory) is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 Census. It is a major passenger and freight Roll-on/ro ...

(1928, 1935,

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

) *Most common pair of finalists: Glentoran v Linfield – 15 times (1899, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1923, 1932, 1942, 1945, 1966, 1973,

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

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League Cup

*Most wins: 10, Linfield *Most consecutive wins: 4, Cliftonville (

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, 2013–14, 2014–15 & 2015–16) *Most final appearances: 12, joint record: **

** Linfield *Most consecutive final appearances: 4, Cliftonville (

, 2013–14, 2014–15 & 2015–16) *Most final defeats: 6, Crusaders ( 1986–87, 1995–96, 2007–08,

, 2013–14 & 2019–20) *Most consecutive final defeats: 3,

( 1996–97, 1997–98 & 1998–99) *Biggest final winning margin: 4–0, joint record: ** Linfield 4–0

Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from ga, Cúil Rathain , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern I ...

( 1999–2000) ** Cliftonville 4–0 Crusaders (

) *Longest gap between wins: 15 years, Crusaders ( 1996–97 and 2011–12) *Longest gap between final appearances: 21 years, Ards ( 1994–95 and 2015–16) *Most final appearances without winning: 2, joint record: **

( 1991–92 & 2003–04) **

Newry City Newry (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin. It had a population of 26,967 in 2011. Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery, although ...

( 1989–90 and 2008–09) *Most common final: Glentoran v Linfield (7 times)

Total titles won

Notes

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Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

Association football in Northern Ireland