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2024–25 NIFL Premiership

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NIFL Premiership
Season2024–25

The 2024–25 NIFL Premiership (known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the 17th season of the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of league football in Northern Ireland and the 124th season of Irish League football overall.

Teams

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The league consisted of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the NIFL Championship. Larne entered the season as defending champions (for the second consecutive season).

Portadown were promoted as champions of the 2023–24 NIFL Championship (returning to the top-flight after a one-season absence), replacing the 2023–24 NIFL Premiership bottom-placed team Newry City.

Stadia and locations

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Locations of the 2024–25 NIFL Premiership teams
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Locations of the Belfast-based 2024–25 NIFL Premiership teams
Club Stadium Location Capacity[1][2]
Ballymena United The Showgrounds Ballymena 3,824 (all seated)
Carrick Rangers Loughshore Hotel Arena Carrickfergus 2,100 (380 seated)
Cliftonville Solitude Belfast 3,054 (all seated)
Coleraine The Showgrounds Coleraine 4,843 (1,607 seated)
Crusaders Seaview Belfast 3,208 (all seated)
Dungannon Swifts Stangmore Park Dungannon 2,000 (300 seated)
Glenavon Mourneview Park Lurgan 3,302 (all seated)
Glentoran The Oval Belfast 6,054 (3,991 seated)
Larne Inver Park Larne 2,732 (1,632 seated)
Linfield Windsor Park Belfast 18,434 (all seated)
Loughgall Lakeview Park Loughgall 3,000
Portadown Shamrock Park Portadown 3,940 (2,765 seated)

Regular season

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Linfield 14 9 2 3 30 14 +16 29 Qualification for Section A
2 Cliftonville 14 7 3 4 18 14 +4 24
3 Ballymena United 15 8 0 7 20 18 +2 24
4 Dungannon Swifts 15 7 2 6 20 17 +3 23
5 Coleraine 15 6 4 5 23 20 +3 22
6 Portadown 14 6 3 5 20 16 +4 21
7 Glentoran 15 6 3 6 15 14 +1 21 Qualification for Section B
8 Crusaders 13 6 2 5 15 13 +2 20
9 Larne 11 5 3 3 13 9 +4 18
10 Glenavon 15 3 6 6 11 19 −8 15
11 Carrick Rangers 14 3 2 9 14 27 −13 11
12 Loughgall 15 3 2 10 17 35 −18 11
Updated to match(es) played on 3 November 2024. Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Drawing of lots[3]


Results

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For matches 1–22, each team plays every other team twice (home and away). For matches 23–33, each team plays every other team for the third time (either at home or away).

Home \ Away BYM CRK CLF COL CRU DUN GLA GLT LAR LIN LGL POR BYM CRK CLF COL CRU DUN GLA GLT LAR LIN LGL POR
Ballymena United — 30 NOV 3–2 0–1 0–1 14 DEC 3–1 1–0 23 NOV 0–2 4–1 0–3 — — 15 FEB — — — 30 DEC 11 JAN — 8 FEB — 22 FEB
Carrick Rangers 1–4 — 2–0 2–1 16 NOV 23 NOV 2–0 2–3 1–3 14 DEC 0–1 18 JAN — — 8 FEB 30 DEC — — 15 MAR — 22 FEB —
Cliftonville 16 NOV 7 DEC — 2–1 1–0a 1–0 0–0 21 DEC 1–3 0–0 23 NOV 1–0 — 22 MAR — — — 30 DEC — 22 FEB — — 18 JAN 8 FEB
Coleraine 4–2 3–1 — 24 NOV 4–1 0–2 2–1 1–1 0–3 2–0 7 DEC 26 DEC — 8 MAR — 18 JAN — — 15 FEB — — — 22 MAR
Crusaders 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 — 30 NOV 0–1 13 DEC 2–3 9 NOV 0–3 15 FEB — 26 DECa — — 11 JAN — — — 8 MAR 15 MAR 25 JAN
Dungannon Swifts 1–0 4–0 9 NOV 1–1 1–0 — 16 NOV 1–0 21 DEC 7 DEC 1–3 2–0 8 MAR 15 FEB — 25 JAN — — 18 JAN — — 22 MAR 26 DEC —
Glenavon 0–1 1–1 1–2 30 NOV 7 DEC 1–1 — 9 NOV 0–0 0–3 2–2 2–1 — 25 JAN 15 FEB 11 JAN 22 FEB — — — 22 MAR — — 26 DEC
Glentoran 7 DEC 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 — 0–2 22 NOVa 2–0 16 NOV — — — — 22 MAR 8 FEB 8 MAR — 18 JAN 26 DECa — —
Larne 0–1 26 DEC 1 DEC 10 NOV 1–1 0–3 14 DEC 2–0 — 16 NOV 2–0 25 JAN — 11 JAN 15 MAR 8 FEB 22 FEB — — — — — —
Linfield 9 NOV 1–0 1–2 14 DEC 3–1 21 DEC 1–3 0–1 — 5–1 30 NOV — 11 JAN 25 JAN 22 FEB — — 15 MAR — 30 DEC — 15 FEB —
Loughgall 21 DEC 3–0 1–5 16 NOV 0–4 0–2 3–0 30 NOV 7 DEC 1–3 — 2–2 22 MAR — — 30 DEC — — 8 FEB 25 JAN 8 MAR — — 11 JAN
Portadown 0–1 9 NOV 14 DEC 2–2 21 DEC 2–1 23 NOV 1–2 2–1 2–2 1–0 — — 8 MAR — — — 15 MAR — 30 DEC 15 FEB 18 JAN — —
Updated to match(es) played on 3 November 2024. Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 34–38

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For the final five matches, the table splits into two halves, with the top six teams forming Section A and the bottom six teams forming Section B. Each team plays every other team in their respective section once. The fixtures are reversed from those played during rounds 23–33, ensuring that teams have played every other team in their respective section twice at home and twice away overall throughout the season.

Play-offs

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Conference League play-off

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Clubs placed 3rd–7th compete for the second and final place in the 2025–26 Conference League first qualifying round. The play-offs are one-off matches, with the higher-ranked teams given home advantage and extra time and penalties used to determine the winner if necessary. If the 2024–25 Irish Cup winners finish in the top three, the third-placed team will qualify automatically for the Conference League spot and the spot will be vacated. If the Irish Cup winners finish in between fourth and seventh, that spot will be vacated.

NIFL Premiership play-off

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The eleventh-placed club will face the second-placed club from the 2024–25 NIFL Championship in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the following season's NIFL Premiership.

References

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  1. ^ "AQW 1178/11". Northern Ireland Assembly. 18 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Sport NI Annual review 2008/09" (PDF). sportni.net. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013.
  3. ^ "NIFL Premiership Rules 2020–21" (PDF). NIFL. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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