2024–25 NIFL Premiership


The 2024–25 NIFL Premiership was 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.
Linfield won the title for the 57th time.

Teams

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.
The promoted team was the 2023–24 NIFL Championship champions Portadown. They replaced the 2023–24 NIFL Premiership bottom-placed team Newry City.

Stadia and locations

ClubStadiumLocationCapacity
Ballymena UnitedThe ShowgroundsBallymena3,824
Carrick RangersLoughshore Hotel ArenaCarrickfergus2,100
CliftonvilleSolitudeBelfast3,054
ColeraineThe ShowgroundsColeraine4,843
CrusadersSeaviewBelfast3,208
Dungannon SwiftsStangmore ParkDungannon2,000
GlenavonMourneview ParkLurgan3,302
GlentoranThe OvalBelfast6,054
LarneInver ParkLarne2,732
LinfieldWindsor ParkBelfast18,434
LoughgallLakeview ParkLoughgall3,000
PortadownShamrock ParkPortadown3,940

Regular season

League table



Results

For matches 1–22, each team plays every other team twice. For matches 23–33, each team plays every other team for the third time.

Matches 34–38

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.

Section A

League table



Results

Each team plays each other once.

Section B

League table



Results

Each team plays each other once.

Play-offs

Conference League play-off

Teams placed 3rd–7th qualified for one-off play-off matches, with the winners earning the second spot in the 2025–26 UEFA Conference League first qualifying round; the higher-placed team per game received home advantage. Teams finishing 4th-7th qualified for the quarter-finals; the 3rd-placed team qualified for the final.
Since the 2024–25 Irish Cup winners finished in the top seven, the spot and the quarter-finals were vacated.

NIFL Premiership play-off

The eleventh-placed club faced the second-placed club from the 2024–25 NIFL Championship in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025–26 NIFL Premiership.

Attendances

#ClubAverage
1Linfield2,775
2Glentoran2,591
3Coleraine2,367
4Cliftonville1,696
5Larne1,599
6Ballymena1,544
7Crusaders1,523
8Portadown1,339
9Glenavon1,029
10Dungannon Swifts793
11Carrick Rangers592
12Loughgall584

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