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) will be the 17th season of the NIFL Premiership (the highest level of league football in Northern Ireland), the 124th season of Irish League football overall, and the 11th season of the league operating as part of the Northern Ireland Football League.

Teams[edit]

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

Stadia and locations[edit]

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)

References[edit]

  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.