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    The Oval (currently known as The BetMcLean Oval for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which has been home to Glentoran...
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  • Richmond Rovers. In the second competition in 1881–82, Queen's Island became the first Belfast club to win the Cup and it did not leave Belfast again for another...
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    Agnolin (Italy) CSKA Sofia won 1–0 on aggregate. 30 September 1981 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 3,673 Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands) Glentoran won...
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  • side Newry City 1–0. That was also the first final to be played outside Belfast, with Mourneview Park, Lurgan hosting the match. It was attended by UEFA President...
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  • bottom-placed team Newry City. Belfast Ballymena United Carrick Rangers Coleraine Dungannon Swifts Glenavon Larne Portadown Loughgall Belfast teams : Cliftonville...
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    Anders Mattsson (Finland) Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate. 29 September 1977 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck (Netherlands) Glentoran...
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  • by the clubs Ballyclare, Beechmount, Belfast Athletic, Clarence, Cliftonville, Distillery, Linfield, Mountcollyer, Oldpark, Whiteabbey and YMCA. The County...
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  • introduced the cup as the "New Irish Cup". At the end of the season after many discussions, the dissident clubs returned to the IFA and the tournament...
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  • up Oval, oval, egg-shaped, oviform, or ovoid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An oval is a curve resembling an egg or an ellipse. Oval, The Oval, or...
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  • final, Linfield won the tournament for the 17th time, defeating Ballymena 3–0 in the final at The Oval. 28 March 1931 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 20,000...
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    April 2021. "Windsor Park UEFA Super Cup success as Belfast stadium gets nod for 2021 final". Belfast Live. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019...
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  • International Results, RSSSF Shamrock v Thistle: Inter-League match at Belfast, Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1 February 1895, via Play Up Liverpool LIVERPOOL...
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  • Sørensen (Denmark) SK Brann won 9-0 on aggregate. 3 October 1973 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Henk Pijper (Netherlands) Glentoran won...
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  • Glenavon were defeated by Portadown in the semi-finals. 14 April 1962 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 23,000 Alex Graham. Football in Northern Ireland, a statistical...
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    100 Greatest Living Players, and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002. He won the German Footballer of the Year award three times – in 2002,...
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    from outside of Belfast to win the league since Portadown in 2002. The current format was introduced for the 2008–09 season after the League system for...
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  • Coleraine, who defeated in the final Portadown, 1–0. 28 November 1987 The Oval, Belfast "Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics...
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  • favoured among the Ulster Protestants community, the Irish Football Association was set up in Belfast rather than the capital city of Dublin. The Association...
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  • United: Daniel Sturridge and Roberto Firmino seal win for Klopp's team". Belfast Telegraph. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2018. Tom English (26 July...
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  • 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (category July 2005 sports events in the United Kingdom)
    (Italy) 23 July 2005 17:00 UTC+1 The Oval, Belfast Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal) 18 July 2005 17:00 UTC+1 The Oval, Belfast Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)...
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  • Advance to a further round 2005-03-15 The Oval, Belfast 2005-04-04 Flancare Park, Longford 2005-04-19 Windsor Park, Belfast 2005-04-25 Flancare Park, Longford...
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  • Retrieved 6 August 2017. "Charity Shield: Linfield defeat Bannsiders in Oval curtain-raiser". BBC Sport. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017. "Charity...
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  • The Floodlit Cup (more commonly known as the Budweiser Floodlit Cup, Budweiser Cup or Coca-Cola Cup for sponsorship reasons) was an annual football competition...
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  • title in the previous season. Belfast Ballymena United Carrick Rangers Coleraine Dungannon Swifts Glenavon Larne Loughgall Newry City Belfast teams : Cliftonville...
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    42,323 Referee: Stanislav Fencl (Czechoslovakia) 16 September 1964 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 16,560 Referee: Frede Hansen (Denmark) 16 September 1964...
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    Attendance: 3,125 Referee: John Russel (Northern Ireland) 13 September 1967 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 24,750 Referee: Roger Barde (France) 20 September 1967...
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    (West Germany) Steaua București won 7–3 on aggregate. 5 October 1988 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Oli Olsen (Iceland) Spartak Moscow won...
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  • 19:45 BST Final The Oval, Belfast Referee: Raymond Crangle The eleventh-placed club, Portadown, faced the second-placed club from the 2021–22 NIFL Championship...
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  • winners received a bye into the quarter-finals. The final was played at the Oval, Belfast and was won by Crusaders for the first time, defeating Derry...
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    Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Jim Finney (England) 16 September 1970 The Oval, Belfast Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden) 16 September...
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