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NIFL Charity Shield - Wikipedia

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NIFL Charity Shield
Founded	1992
Region	Northern Ireland
Number of teams	2
Current champions	Larne (2024)
Most successful club(s)	Linfield – 4 titles (3 outright, 1 shared)
Website	NI Football League

The Northern Ireland Football League Charity Shield is the national association football super cup in Northern Ireland. It has been held on an occasional basis since its inauguration in 1992. It pits together the previous campaign's NIFL Premiership champions and Irish Cup winners, providing the opening match of the Irish League season.

Larne are the current holders, after they defeated Cliftonville 2–1 in the 2024 edition to win the competition for the first time.^[1]

Sponsorship

McEwan's Lager sponsored the competition between 1992 and 1994, and Wilkinson Sword were sponsors from 1998 until 2000, both of whom also sponsored other competitions in Irish League football. The proceeds from the 2014 and 2015 editions were donated to the Northern Ireland Hospice.^[2]

Format

The Shield is held in early August as a single match. In the 1992 and 1993 editions, the trophy was shared between the two competing sides for six months when both matches finished level at full-time. However, the rules were later changed to ensure an outright winner. In the 2014 edition, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner when the match ended level after 90 minutes, without extra time being played.

Results

Key:

&	Title was shared after match finished in a draw
pens.	Scores level after extra time. A penalty shootout was required to determine the winner.

Year	Date	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue	Attendance	Ref
1992	8 August	Glenavon Glentoran	1–1^&	—	Windsor Park, Belfast	2,000	^[3]
1993	10 August	Bangor Linfield	1–1^&	—	Windsor Park, Belfast
1994	3 August	Linfield	2–0	Bangor	Windsor Park, Belfast
1998	8 August	Cliftonville	1–0	Glentoran	The Oval, Belfast	2,000	^[4]
1999	8 August	Portadown	2–1	Glentoran	Mourneview Park, Lurgan	2,000	^[5]
2000	5 August	Linfield	2–0	Glentoran	Windsor Park, Belfast	10,500	^[6]
2014	2 August	Cliftonville	0 0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (4 – 2 pens.)	Ballymena United	Solitude, Belfast		^[7]
2015	1 August	Glentoran	1–0	Crusaders	Solitude, Belfast		^[8]
2016	30 July	Glenavon	1–0	Crusaders	Mourneview Park, Lurgan		^[9]
2017	5 August	Linfield	3–1	Coleraine	The Oval, Belfast		^[10]
2022	6 August	Crusaders	2–0	Linfield	Windsor Park, Belfast		^[11]
2023	1 July	Crusaders	2–0	Larne	Inver Park, Larne		^[12]
2024	5 July	Larne	2–1	Cliftonville	Inver Park, Larne		^[1]

Performance by club

Team	Wins	Years	Runner-up
Linfield	4 (1 shared)	1993 (shared), 1994, 2000, 2017	2022
Crusaders	2	2022, 2023	2015, 2016
Cliftonville	2	1998, 2014	2024
Glentoran	2 (1 shared)	1992 (shared), 2015	1998, 1999, 2000
Glenavon	2 (1 shared)	1992 (shared), 2016	—
Larne	1	2024	2023
Portadown	1	1999	—
Bangor	1 (shared)	1993 (shared)	1994
Ballymena United	—	—	2014
Coleraine	—	—	2017

External links

References

^ ^a ^b "Larne come from behind to win Charity Shield". BBC Sport. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
^ "NI FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHARITY SHIELD". nifootballleague.com. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
^ "Quigley's Bolt For Lurgan Blues". Sunday Life. 9 August 1992. p. 60.
^ "Char Grilled...Reds Mac flying start". Sunday Life. 9 August 1998. p. 75.
^ "A Real "Off" Day". Ireland's Saturday Night. 7 August 1999. p. 1.
^ "No Charity From Blues". Ireland's Saturday Night. 5 August 2000. p. 1.
^ "Cliftonville beat Ballymena in Charity Shield shoot-out". BBC Sport. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Glentoran beat Crusaders 1-0 in Charity Shield at Solitude". BBC Sport. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Charity Shield: Ten-man Glenavon defeat Crusaders". BBC Sport. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Charity Shield: Linfield defeat Bannsiders in Oval curtain-raiser". BBC Sport. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Charity Shield: Crusaders beat Linfield 2-0 in season curtain-raiser at Windsor Park". BBC Sport. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
^ "NIFL Charity Shield: Jarlath O'Rourke and James Teelan goals see Crusaders defeat Larne 2-0". BBC Sport. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

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