2024–25 NIFL Premiership
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), the 124th season of Irish League football overall, and the 11th season of the league operating as part of the Northern Ireland Football League.
| Season | 2024–25 |
|---|---|
← 2023–24 2025–26 → | |
Teams
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
| 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
- "AQW 1178/11". Northern Ireland Assembly. 18 October 2010.
- "Sport NI Annual review 2008/09" (PDF). sportni.net. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013.