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The competition began with 32 clubs in a straight knock-out format in February 1987, and included teams from the Irish League B Division until 1997–98. From 1998–99 until 2007–08, only senior (Irish League and Irish Premier League) teams competed, but the competition was opened up to the 17 Championship clubs in 2008–09, and again in 2010–11 to include clubs from Championship 2 ...
The 14 NIFL Premier Intermediate League clubs entered the draw for the preliminary round, with 12 of those clubs being drawn to face each other in six ties and the remaining two clubs receiving byes. The 6 preliminary round winners and the two clubs which received byes joined the remaining 24 clubs from the NIFL Premiership and NIFL ...
The competition was open to the 36 members of the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL). The eight lowest-ranked clubs from the previous season's league system (the clubs that finished 5th–11th in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League along with the newly promoted club, Ballymacash Rangers) entered the preliminary round, with the 4 winners joining the remaining 28 NIFL clubs in the first round.
The NIFL Premier Intermediate League, as the highest-level of intermediate football in Northern Ireland, is the successor to the intermediate-status IFA Championship (2008-16), IFA Intermediate League (2004-08), the Irish Football League First Division (2003-04) during its last season (when it had intermediate status), and ultimately the Irish ...
The NIFL Premiership was established as the IFA Premiership in 2008 under the auspices of the Irish Football Association as the successor to the Irish Premier League, before the Northern Ireland Football League was created for the start of the 2013–14 season. At the end of the season, the champion club is presented with the Gibson Cup.
The overall top flight League table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the 14 completed seasons of the top flight in its current format - namely the IFA/NIFL Premiership since its inception in the 2008–09 season.
The competition was open to the 35 members of the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL). The top sixteen ranked clubs from the 2018–19 season (all twelve 2018–19 NIFL Premiership clubs, along with the top four clubs from the 2018–19 NIFL Championship) entered the competition in the second round as seeds.
Coleraine once again reached the final this season, however they were defeated 4–3 in extra time by Cliftonville, who won the League Cup for the sixth time overall, and the first time since their fourth consecutive cup win in 2016. This season saw the final being played on a Sunday for the first time in the competition's history, attracting a ...