Irish Football Association

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Irish Football Association
logo
founding 1880
FIFA accession 1911
UEFA accession 1954
president Jim Shaw
Secretary General -
National teams Men's
national team
U-21 , U-19 , U-18 ,
U-17 , U-16
former
Ireland

Women's
national team
U-19 , U-17

Clubs (approx.) 1500
Homepage www.irishfa.com

The Irish Football Association ( IFA ) is the football association of Northern Ireland . Founded in 1880 as an association for the whole of Ireland , as this still the United Kingdom was one he was up to the division of the island for football on the entire island of charge. The IFA should not be confused with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), which was founded in 1921 in the southern part of Ireland and was responsible for football in the Irish Free State and is now the Federation of the Republic of Ireland .

history

Belfast football clubs formed the Irish Football Association at a meeting at Cliftonville FC on November 18, 1880 to organize their sport across Ireland. IFA directly followed the UK's three other associations - England , Scotland and Wales - making it the fourth oldest football association in the world. The first official act of the founders was to create a cup competition modeled on the FA and Scottish Cup , the Irish Cup . Two years later, an Irish national team played in an international match for the first time .

Shortly after the partition of Ireland, the Football Association of Ireland was founded in the southern part , which in 1923 was recognized by the world football association FIFA as the Football Association of the Irish Free State . Both associations, FAI and IFA, had the claim to represent the entire island, and both competed with national teams under the name Ireland , i.e. Ireland. Both associations called players from Northern Ireland and the Free State into their national selections. From 1928 to 1946 the IFA was not a member of FIFA. The national teams of both associations never played in the same competitions until 1950.

World football's governing body FIFA in 1954 certain that the team of IFA future as Northern Ireland when Northern Ireland was so designated and the team from the Republic of the Republic of Ireland took. Both associations were only allowed to name players who were born within their own borders. The IFA then gave up its claim to represent all of Ireland, but is still the same association that was responsible for the entire island until 1921. Results of the Irish national team as well as league and cup statistics before the split are therefore attributed to the IFA and thus Northern Ireland.

Together with the three other Home Nations associations from England, Scotland and Wales, IFA is a permanent member of the International Football Association Board , which is responsible for the FIFA football rules.

The IFA is still responsible for the Northern Irish national football team today . The affiliated Northern Ireland Women's Football Association (NIWFA) organizes women's football in Northern Ireland.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .