Northern Ireland - List of Gold Cup Winners

First played in 1911/12 after seven of the eight participating clubs left the Irish FA (only Linfield remained) and founded the New Irish FA. This new organisation introduced the Gold Cup. At the end of the season, the dissident clubs returned to the Irish FA and the tournament was not held 1912/13, but revived by the IFA in 1913/14. In the seasons 1915/16 to 1918/19 it was played in league format (with a playoff between the two teams topping the table in the first of these seasons).

1911/12 Belfast Celtic           2-0 Glentoran     
1912/13   not held     
1913/14 Distillery           0-0 3-2 Shelbourne   
1914/15 Shelbourne               1-0 Linfield
1915/16 Linfield                 2-0 Distillery              [playoff]
1916/17 Glentoran                    Distillery
1917/18 Linfield                     Glentoran
1918/19 Linfield                     Belfast Celtic
1919/20 Distillery               3-1 Glentoran      
1920/21 Linfield           
1921/22 Linfield           
1922/23 Cliftonville       
1923/24 Linfield           
1924/25 Distillery         
1925/26 Belfast Celtic           3-0 Cliftonville   
1926/27 Linfield                 3-2 Belfast Celtic       
1927/28 Linfield           
1928/29 Linfield           
1929/30 Distillery         
1930/31 Linfield           
1931/32 Coleraine          
1932/33 Cliftonville       
1933/34 Portadown          
1934/35 Belfast Celtic     
1935/36 Linfield           
1936/37 Linfield           
1937/38 Portadown          
1938/39 Belfast Celtic     
1939/40 Belfast Celtic     
1940/41 Belfast Celtic     
1941/42 Glentoran          
1942/43 Linfield           
1943/44 Belfast Celtic     
1944/45   not held     
1945/46 Belfast Celtic     
1946/47 Belfast Celtic     
1947/48 Belfast Celtic     
1948/49 Linfield           
1949/50 Linfield           
1950/51 Linfield           
1951/52 Glentoran          
1952/53 Portadown          
1953/54 Ards               
1954/55 Glenavon           
1955/56 Linfield           
1956/57 Glenavon 
1957/58 Linfield 
1958/59 Coleraine 
1959/60 Linfield 
1960/61 Glentoran 
1961/62 Linfield 
1962/63 Glentoran                1-0 Coleraine
1963/64 Linfield 
1964/65 Derry City 
1965/66 Linfield 
1966/67 Glentoran 
1967/68 Linfield 
1968/69 Linfield 
1969/70 Coleraine 
1970/71 Linfield 
1971/72 Portadown 
1972/73 Linfield 
1973/74 Ards 
1974/75 Ballymena United 
1975/76 Coleraine 
1976/77 Glentoran 
1977/78 Glentoran 
1978/79 Portadown 
1979/80 Linfield 
1980/81 Cliftonville 
1981/82 Linfield 
1982/83 Glentoran 
1983/84 Linfield 
1984/85 Linfield 
1985/86 Crusaders 
1986/87 Glentoran 
1987/88 Linfield 
1988/89 Linfield                 1-0 Portadown
1989/90 Linfield                 2-0 Portadown
1990/91 Glenavon                 2-1 Portadown
1991/92 Glentoran                1-0 Cliftonville
1992/93 Portadown                1-0 Cliftonville
1993/94 Distillery 
1994/95 Glentoran                bt  Crusaders
1995/96 Crusaders                1-0 Linfield
1996/97 Linfield                 1-0 Glenavon
1997/98 Glenavon 
1998/99 Glentoran 
1999/00 Glentoran                4-2 Linfield
2000/01 Glentoran                4-3 Coleraine

NB: apparently not held since 2001.

Number of Wins (88)

34 Linfield 

14 Glentoran 

11 Belfast Celtic 

 6 Portadown 

 5 Distillery 

 4 Coleraine 
   Glenavon 

 3 Cliftonville 

 2 Ards 
   Crusaders 

 1 Ballymena United 
   Derry City 
   Shelbourne

About this document

Prepared and maintained by Sean DeLoughry the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Sean DeLoughry (seandeloughry@yahoo.co.uk)
Last updated: 9 Jan 2007