The 1981–82 Irish Cup was the 102nd edition of the

Irish Cup The Irish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly referred to as the Irish Cup (currently known as the Clearer Water Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) is the primary Association football, football single elimination, knockout cup compet ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

's premier

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

knock-out cup competition. It began on 30 January 1982, and concluded on 24 April 1982 with the final. Ballymena United were the defending champions, after winning the cup for the 4th time with a 1–0 win over Glenavon in the 1980–81 final. This season, they went out in the first round after a 3–2 loss to

Distillery Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixt ...

. Linfield won their 33rd Irish Cup, defeating Coleraine 2–1 in the final.

Results

First round

¹This tie required two replays, after the first games ended as 2–2 and 1–1 draws.
²This tie required a replay, after the first game ended as a 0–0 draw.

Quarter-finals

³This tie required two replays, after the first games ended as 2–2 and 0–0 draws.

Semi-finals

Final

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1981-82 Irish Cup Irish Cup seasons

Cup A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...