Football records and statistics in Northern Ireland

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This page details football records in the Northern Ireland.

League[]

Team records[]

Titles[]

• Most top-flight league titles: 55, Linfield
• Most consecutive league titles: 6, joint record:
  • Belfast Celtic (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: 120, joint record:
  • Cliftonville (1890–present)
  • Glentoran (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 13 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 2021–22 season. Numbers in bold are the record numbers in each column.

As of the end of the 2020–21 season. 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.

Rank	Club	Seasons completed	Matches played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals scored	Goals conceded	Goal difference	Total points	Titles	Runners-up	Avg Pts/season	Best finish
1	Linfield	13	487	306	90	91	1,004	456	+548	1,008	7	4	77.54	1st
2	Crusaders	13	487	279	101	107	967	566	+401	938	3	3	72.15	1st
3	Cliftonville	13	487	251	97	139	876	610	+266	850	2	1	65.38	1st
4	Coleraine	13	487	219	120	148	742	607	+135	777	0	3	59.77	2nd
5	Glentoran	13	487	217	119	151	761	590	+171	770	1	0	59.23	1st
6	Glenavon	13	487	189	112	186	841	795	+46	679	0	0	52.23	3rd
7	Ballymena United	13	487	179	100	208	732	806	–74	637	0	1	49.00	2nd
8	Dungannon Swifts	13	487	137	117	233	588	844	–256	528	0	0	40.62	5th
9	Portadown	9	342	130	64	148	509	544	–35	454	0	1	50.44	2nd
10	Ballinamallard United	6	228	59	46	123	246	404	–158	223	0	0	37.17	5th
11	Warrenpoint Town	7	259	57	52	150	305	545	–240	223	0	0	31.86	10th
12	Lisburn Distillery	5	190	52	38	100	233	357	–124	194	0	0	38.80	4th
13	Carrick Rangers	6	221	41	43	137	224	455	–231	166	0	0	27.67	8th
14	Institute	5	183	38	45	100	192	345	–153	159	0	0	31.80	7th
15	Ards	4	152	37	27	88	178	290	–112	138	0	0	34.50	8th
16	Larne	2	69	34	18	17	123	70	+53	120	0	0	60.00	4th
17	Newry City	3	114	27	31	56	122	185	–63	112	0	0	37.33	8th
18	Donegal Celtic	3	114	26	22	66	131	249	–118	100	0	0	33.33	8th
19	Bangor	1	38	9	9	20	42	67	–25	36	0	0	36.00	11th
20	Newry City AFC[1]	1	38	6	5	27	31	68	-37	23	0	0	23.00	12th

League or status:

	2021–22 NIFL Premiership
	2021–22 NIFL Championship
	2021–22 NIFL Premier Intermediate League
	Non-League
	Dissolved

Note^[1] - Newry City AFC were formed after Newry City's dissolution due to financial problems

Irish Cup[]

• Most wins: 44, Linfield

• Most consecutive wins: 4, Glentoran (1985, 1986, 1987 & 1988)

• 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 Bohemians (1895)

• Longest gap between wins in a final: 70 years, Cliftonville (1909 and 1979)

• Longest gap between appearances in a final: 55 years, Bangor (1938 and 1993)

• Most appearances in a final without winning: 6, Larne (1928, 1935, 1987, 1989, 2005 & 2021)

• Most common pair of finalists: Glentoran v Linfield – 15 times (1899, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1923, 1932, 1942, 1945, 1966, 1973, 1983, 1985, 2001 & 2006)

League Cup[]

• Most wins: 10, Linfield

• Most consecutive wins: 4, Cliftonville (2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15 & 2015–16)

• Most final appearances: 12, joint record:
  • Glentoran
  • Linfield

• Most consecutive final appearances: 4, Cliftonville (2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15 & 2015–16)

• Most final defeats: 6, Crusaders (1986–87, 1995–96, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2013–14 & 2019–20)

• Most consecutive final defeats: 3, Glentoran (1996–97, 1997–98 & 1998–99)

• Biggest final winning margin: 4–0, joint record:
  • Linfield 4–0 Coleraine (1999–2000)
  • Cliftonville 4–0 Crusaders (2012–13)

• 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:
  • Larne (1991–92 & 2003–04)
  • Newry City (1989–90 and 2008–09)

• Most common final: Glentoran v Linfield (7 times)

Total titles won[]

Team	Domestic									All Ireland	Total
	Irish League	Irish Cup	League Cup	City Cup	Gold Cup	Ulster Cup	Floodlit Cup	Others [note 1]	Regional cups [note 2]	[note 3]
Linfield	55	44	10	24	33	15	2	301⁄2	44	4	2611⁄2
Glentoran	23	23	7	18	15	9	2	9	27	2	135
Glenavon	3	7	1	5	4	3	2	3	29	1	58
Belfast Celtic	14	8	-	11	6	-	-	10	8	1⁄2	571⁄2
Lisburn Distillery	51⁄2	12	1	5	5	2	-	41⁄2	14	1⁄2	491⁄2
Coleraine	1	5	2	2	4	8	-	1	21	2	46
Cliftonville	41⁄2	8	5	-	3	-	1	13	11	-	451⁄2
Portadown	4	3	2	-	6	2	-	4	21	1	43
Crusaders	7	4	2	-	2	3	-	1	8	1	28
Derry City	1	3	1	2	-	-	-	1	16	-	24
Ballymena United	-	5	1	1	1	3[note 4]	-	-	6	-	17
Newry City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	15
Dungannon Swifts	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	10	-	12
Ards	1	3	-	-	2	1	-	-	3	1	11
Bangor	-	1	1	2	-	2	-	1	4	-	11
Limavady United	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	10
Derry Celtic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	8
Institute	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	8
Omagh Town	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	6
Queen's Island [II]	1	1	-	3	-	-	-	-	1	-	6
Banbridge Town	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	5
Shelbourne	-	3	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	5
Larne	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2	-	4
Black Watch	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2
Carrick Rangers	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2
Loughgall	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2
Tobermore United	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2
Armagh City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Ballyclare Comrades	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1
Ballymena	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Bohemians	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Dundela	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Gordon Highlanders	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Moyola Park	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
North Staffordshire Regiment	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
Oldpark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
Queen's Island [I]	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Ulster	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Willowfield	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Warrenpoint Town	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1

Notes[]