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NIFL Premiership
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Key facts
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Confederation
- UEFA
- Relegation to
- NIFL Championship
- Domestic cup
- Irish Cup
- League cup
- NI Football League Cup
- International cup s
- UEFA Champions League , UEFA Conference League
- Current champions
- Larne Football Club
- Most championships
- Linfield (10 titles)
- Most appearances
- Jamie Mulgrew (759)
- Top scorer
- Joe Gormley (215)
- Broadcaster s
- BBC NI (12 live games per season and 50 live games plus highlights via BBC iPlayer ) , Eleven Sports , OneFootball (Outside the UK), Sky Sports (5 Premiership games per season and the League Cup final)
- Website
- nifootballleague .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- national championship
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- www.nifootballleague.com
- Organizer
- Irish Football Association
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- inception
- 1890-00-00
- different from
- NIFL Premier Intermediate League
- number of participants
- 12
- operating area
- Northern Ireland
- sports league level
- 1
- event interval
- 1
- season starts
- September
- league level below
- NIFL Championship
- competition class
- men's association football
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Encyclopedic overview
The NIFL Premiership, known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship purposes but most commonly called the Irish League and sometimes the Irish Premiership, is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Northern Ireland Football League. 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.
Larne are the current champions, winning their 3rd Irish League title in the 2025–26 season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NIFL Premiership” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.