IFA Reserve League

The IFA Reserve League is an intermediate

Northern Ireland football league system

The Northern Ireland football league system is structured as two series of interconnected football leagues across Northern Ireland.-Structure:...

Association football league in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

consisting of the reserve teams of the twelve IFA Premiership

IFA Premiership

The IFA Premiership – formerly the Irish Premier League, and before that the Irish Football League–and still known in popular parlance simply as the Irish League, is the national football league in Northern Ireland, and was historically the league for the whole of Ireland. Clubs in the league are...

clubs.

Current members

Ballymena United Reserves
Ballymena United F.C.
Ballymena United, is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club hails from the town of Ballymena, County Antrim and plays its home matches at Ballymena Showgrounds. Club colours are sky blue and white. Away Colours are Red and BlackThe club was...
Carrick Rangers Reserves
Cliftonville Olympic
Cliftonville F.C.
Cliftonville Football & Athletic Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. Founded on 20 September 1879 by John McCredy McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast, it is the oldest football club in Ireland and celebrated its 130th...
Coleraine Reserves
Coleraine F.C.
Coleraine F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1927, hails from Coleraine, County Londonderry and plays its home matches at the Showgrounds. Club colours are blue and white...
Crusaders Reserves
Crusaders F.C.
Crusaders Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish association football club, playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1898, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Seaview. Club colours are red and black. The current manager is Stephen Baxter, appointed in 2005...
Donegal Celtic Reserves
Dungannon Swifts
Dungannon Swifts F.C.
Dungannon Swifts F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1949, has risen from the Mid-Ulster league to the top tier in Northern Ireland since its election to the Irish League First Division in 1997...
Glenavon Reserves
Glenavon F.C.
Glenavon F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Lurgan and plays its home matches at Mourneview Park...
Glentoran II
Glentoran F.C.
Glentoran F.C. is a semi-professional, football club in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 and plays its home games at the Oval in east Belfast. Club colours are green, red, and black.Glentoran's biggest rivals are Linfield...
Linfield Swifts
Linfield F.C.
Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....
Lisburn Distillery II
Lisburn Distillery F.C.
Lisburn Distillery is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1880, originated in west Belfast, where it was based at Grosvenor Park at Distillery Street off the Grosvenor Road until 1971...
Portadown Reserves
Portadown F.C.
Portadown F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club which plays in the IFA Premiership.The club was founded in the late 1880s and joined the Irish League in 1924. It is based in Portadown in County Armagh and plays its home games at Shamrock Park...

History

The IFA Reserve League is the successor to the Irish League B Division Section 2 which was formed in 1977, when the B Division split into two sections: Section 1 for intermediate clubs and the other for the reserve teams of senior clubs. Since the foundation of the B Division in 1951, these two categories of teams had competed together. In 1999, Section 1 of the B Division was renamed the Irish League Second Division and Section 2 became the Irish League Reserve League. In 2003, on the formation of the Irish Premier League, the IFA took direct control and the league was renamed the IFA Reserve League.

List of champions

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Irish League B Division Section 2

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|1977/78 ||Linfield Swifts

Linfield F.C.

Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....

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|1978/79 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1979/80 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1980/81 ||Cliftonville Olympic

Cliftonville F.C.

Cliftonville Football & Athletic Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. Founded on 20 September 1879 by John McCredy McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast, it is the oldest football club in Ireland and celebrated its 130th...

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|1981/82 ||Larne Olympic

Larne F.C.

Larne F.C. is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in IFA Championship 1. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Larne and plays its home matches at Inver Park. Club colours are red and white...

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|1982/83 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1983/84 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1984/85 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1985/86 ||Glentoran II

Glentoran F.C.

Glentoran F.C. is a semi-professional, football club in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 and plays its home games at the Oval in east Belfast. Club colours are green, red, and black.Glentoran's biggest rivals are Linfield...

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|1986/87 ||Glentoran II
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|1987/88 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1988/89 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1989/90 ||Glentoran II
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|1990/91 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1991/92 ||Linfield Swifts
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|1992/93 ||Glentoran II
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|1993/94 ||Bangor Reserves

Bangor F.C.

Bangor Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in IFA Championship 1. The club, founded in 1918, hails from Bangor and plays its home matches at Clandeboye Park. Club colours are gold and royal blue...

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|1994/95 ||Bangor Reserves
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|1995/96 ||Glentoran II
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|1996/97 ||Crusaders Reserves

Crusaders F.C.

Crusaders Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish association football club, playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1898, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Seaview. Club colours are red and black. The current manager is Stephen Baxter, appointed in 2005...

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|1997/98 ||Glentoran II
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|1998/99 ||Linfield Swifts
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Irish League Reserve League

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|1999/2000 ||Linfield Swifts
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|2000/01 ||Cliftonville Olympic
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|2001/02 ||Glentoran II
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|2002/03 ||Glentoran II
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|2003/04 ||Linfield Swifts
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|2004/05 ||Linfield Swifts
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|2005/06 ||Dungannon Swifts Reserves
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|2006/07 ||Ballymena United Reserves

Ballymena United F.C.

Ballymena United, is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club hails from the town of Ballymena, County Antrim and plays its home matches at Ballymena Showgrounds. Club colours are sky blue and white. Away Colours are Red and BlackThe club was...

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|2007/08 ||Donegal Celtic Reserves
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|2008/09 ||Linfield Swifts
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|2009/10 ||Linfield Swifts
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|2010/11 ||Linfield Swifts
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Summary of champions

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|1 ||Linfield Swifts ||17 || 2010/11
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|2 ||Glentoran II||8 || 2002/03
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|3 ||Bangor Reserves||2 || 1994/95
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|= ||Cliftonville Olympic||2 || 2000/01
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|5 ||Ballymena United Reserves||1 || 2006/07
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|= ||Crusaders Reserves ||1 || 1996/97
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|= ||Donegal Celtic Reserves||1 || 2007/08
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|= ||Dungannon Swifts Reserves||1 || 2005/06
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|= ||Larne Olympic ||1 || 1981/82
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