2024–25 NIFL Championship

The 2024–25 NIFL Championship (known as the Playr-Fit Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the eighth season of the NIFL Championship (the second-tier of the Irish League - the national football league in Northern Ireland) since gaining senior status.[1]

NIFL Championship
Season2024–25
2025–26 →

Teams

The league will consist of twelve teams; nine teams remaining from the previous season, two teams promoted from the NIFL Premier Intermediate League, and one team relegated from the NIFL Premiership.

Limavady United were promoted as champions of the 2023–24 NIFL Premier Intermediate League (replacing the bottom-placed 2023–24 NIFL Championship team Knockbreda). Intermediate League runners-up Armagh City were also promoted after defeating second-bottom Championship team Dergview in the NIFL Championship play-off to take their place in the league. Newry City were relegated as the bottom-placed team of the 2023–24 NIFL Premiership (replacing the 2023–24 NIFL Championship promoted team Portadown).[2][3]

Locations of the 2024–25 NIFL Championship teams
Locations of the Belfast-based 2024–25 NIFL Championship teams

Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Location Capacity[4]
Annagh UnitedTandragee RoadPortadown1,250 (100 seated)
ArdsBangor Fuels ArenaBangor1,895 (500 seated)
Armagh CityHolm ParkArmagh3,000 (500 seated)
Ballinamallard UnitedFerney ParkBallinamallard2,000 (250 seated)
Ballyclare ComradesDixon ParkBallyclare5,333
BangorClandeboye ParkBangor1,895 (500 seated)
DundelaWilgar ParkBelfast2,500
Harland & Wolff WeldersTillysburn ParkBelfast3,000
InstituteRyan McBride Brandywell StadiumDerry8,200
Limavady UnitedThe ShowgroundsLimavady524 (274 seated)
NewingtonSolitudeBelfast8,000 (3,000 seated)
Newry CityThe ShowgroundsNewry2,275 (1,080 seated)

References
  1. "Summary - Championship - Northern Ireland". Soccerway.
  2. "Limavady United secure PIL title and promotion to the Championship". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  3. "Newry City relegated as Portadown win Championship". BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  4. "NIFL Championship Venues 2021-2022". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
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