Northern Irish Premiership

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Established
2008 (17 years old)

First Recorded Event
2019-08-09

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round
18

Level Above

Level Below
Northern Irish Championship

Sport
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Soccer

Location
Northern Ireland

Gender
Male

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05 Dec	Larne	7:45pm	Linfield
06 Dec	Ballymena	3:00pm	Dungannon
06 Dec	Coleraine	3:00pm	Carrick R
06 Dec	Crusaders	3:00pm	Portadown
06 Dec	Glenavon	3:00pm	Bangor
06 Dec	Glentoran	3:00pm	Cliftonvi
09 Dec	Crusaders	7:45pm	Cliftonvi
12 Dec	Coleraine	7:45pm	Bangor
12 Dec	Larne	7:45pm	Glentoran
13 Dec	Carrick R	3:00pm	Dungannon
Results
29 Nov	Portadown	2 - 3	Cliftonvi
29 Nov	Linfield	3 - 1	Carrick R
29 Nov	Glenavon	3 - 1	Ballymena
29 Nov	Dungannon	1 - 2	Larne
29 Nov	Crusaders	0 - 2	Coleraine
28 Nov	Bangor	1 - 1	Glentoran
25 Nov	Coleraine	1 - 2	Larne
25 Nov	Linfield	1 - 0	Crusaders
22 Nov	Cliftonvi	1 - 0	Coleraine
22 Nov	Carrick R	1 - 2	Portadown

Description

The Irish Premiership or Danske Bank Premiership for sponsorship purposes, and colloquially as the Irish League, is a semi-professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Northern Ireland Football League – the national league in Northern Ireland. It was formerly called the IFA Premiership until 2013. Still known in popular parlance simply as the Irish League or the Irish Premiership, the Premiership was established in 2008 under the auspices of the Irish Football Association before the Northern Ireland Football League was created for the start of the 2013–14 season. At the end of the season, the champion club is presented with the Gibson Cup.

Linfield are the current champions, having lifted their 54th league championship after being declared champions on average points per game, following the 2019–20 season curtailment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Every team had played 31 of 38 games, so the application of points per game was academic. This meant Linfield equalled the world record for the most league titles won by any club, held by Scottish club Rangers.

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