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The Northern Ireland Football League was formed in 2013 to assume independent collective management of the top three levels of the Northern Ireland football league system, which had been under the direct management of the Irish Football Association: namely the IFA Premiership and both divisions of the IFA Championship. [10]
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 )
The NIFL Premiership was established as the IFA Premiership in 2008 under the auspices of the Irish Football Association as the successor to the Irish Premier League, 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.
The Northern Ireland Football League, which is the national league of Northern Ireland, has two senior divisions, the NIFL Premiership and the NIFL Championship, which consists of twenty-four semi-professional clubs. Members of the Premiership must possess a domestic licence in order to retain membership and members of the Championship must ...
The domestic league is the NIFL Premiership. [4] Some of the major teams include Linfield, Larne, Crusaders, Cliftonville, Portadown and Glentoran.A notable historic club was Belfast Celtic, which won nineteen championships before resigning from the league in 1949 and disbanding after a sectarian riot at its Boxing Day match against Linfield.
Championship 2 became the NIFL Premier Intermediate League, retaining its intermediate status. [4] The second level in Northern Irish football was known as the B Division from 1951 to 1995, the Irish League First Division from 1995 to 2003, the Irish First Division from 2003 to 2008, and the IFA Championship from 2008 to 2013.
More than 40 football clubs in Northern Ireland can now apply for money from a £36.2m fund which was initially announced 14 years ago. The Northern Ireland Football Fund dates back to 2011, when ...
Club Finishing position in 2015-16; Banbridge Town: 6th Bangor: 10th (NIFL Championship 1) (Relegated for not reapplying for championship licence) Donegal Celtic: 12th(NIFL Championship 1)