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The 2023–24 NIFL Premiership (known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th season of the NIFL Premiership (the highest level of league football in Northern Ireland), the 123rd season of Irish League football overall, and the 11th season of the league operating as part of the Northern Ireland Football League.
Dungannon Swifts Football Club is a Northern Irish semi-professional football club playing in the NIFL Premiership.The club, founded in 1949, has risen from the Mid-Ulster league to the top tier in Northern Ireland since its election to the Irish League First Division in 1997.
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)
The foundation of Cliftonville F.C. was announced on 20 September 1879 in notices in the Belfast News-Letter and Northern Whig, which asked "gentlemen desirous of becoming members" of the "Cliftonville Association Football Club (Scottish Association Rules)" to communicate with John McAlery, a young Belfast businessman and manager of the "Irish Tweed House", Royal Avenue, and later with ...
The 2022–23 season is Cliftonville's 122nd season in the top flight of the Northern Ireland Football League having never been relegated since the league's formation in 1890. In addition to the domestic league , they will also compete in the Irish Cup , the League Cup and the County Antrim Shield .
The NIFL Premiership, known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship purposes, [2] and Irish Premiership colloquially, [3] [4] is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Northern Ireland Football League – the national league in Northern Ireland.
The first ever Irish League match to be broadcast live on television took place on 24 September 2007 when Sky Sports showed Cliftonville and Linfield draw 2–2 at Solitude. In 2008, the IFA took over responsibility for the Senior League under the name IFA Premiership , and the IFA Intermediate League was replaced by the IFA Championship .
The competition began with 32 clubs in a straight knock-out format in February 1987, and included teams from the Irish League B Division until 1997–98. From 1998–99 until 2007–08, only senior (Irish League and Irish Premier League) teams competed, but the competition was opened up to the 17 Championship clubs in 2008–09, and again in 2010–11 to include clubs from Championship 2 ...