Tournament details | |
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Country | Ireland |
Teams | 33 |
Defending champions | Linfield |
Final positions | |
Champions | Linfield (6th win) |
Runner-up | Glentoran |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 33 |
Goals scored | 130 (3.94 per match) |
The 1898–99 Irish Cup was the 19th edition of the Irish Cup, the premier knock-out cup competition in Irish football.
Linfield won the tournament for the 6th time and 2nd year in a row, defeating Glentoran 1–0 in the final.[1][2]
Results
First round
Teams from Belfast, Dublin and the north west of Ireland were given byes in the first two rounds while several Army teams were selected to play in the first two rounds.[3]
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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8th Hussars | 1–5 | Royal Fusiliers |
South Staffordshire Regiment | w/o | Hampshire Regiment |
Cheshire Regiment | 1–2 | King's Own Rifles |
Connaught Rangers | 1–0 | Oxfordshire Regiment |
Inniskilling Fusiliers | 3–1 | Inniskilling Dragoons |
Royal Irish Rifles | bye |
Second round
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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King's Own Rifles | w/o | Royal Irish Rifles |
Third round
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Bohemians | 4–0 | Bedford Regiment |
Rifle Brigade | 1–1 | East Yorkshire Regiment |
Freebooters | w/o | Trinity |
Yorkshire Regiment | 3–0 | Connaught Rangers |
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders | 3–0 | Royal Fusiliers |
14th Hussars | 0–3 | King's Own Scottish Borderers |
North Staffordshire Regiment | 2–4 | Linfield |
Glentoran | 2–0 | Distillery |
Belfast Celtic | 7–0 | Cliftonville |
North End | 3–3 | Derry Hibernians |
St Columb's Court | w/o | Limavady |
Inniskilling Fusiliers | 5–2 | St Columb's Hall Celtic |
Hampshire Regiment | bye | |
1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers | bye |
Replays
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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East Yorkshire Regiment | 1–1 | Rifle Brigade |
Derry Hibernians | 1–2 | North End |
Second replay
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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East Yorkshire Regiment | 2–1 | Rifle Brigade |
Fourth round
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Glentoran | 4–0 | North End |
Linfield | w/o | Inniskilling Fusiliers |
St Columb's Court | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | 1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers |
Freebooters | 4–0 | Yorkshire Regiment |
Bohemians | 3–1 | Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders |
King's Own Scottish Borderers | 1–1 | King's Own Rifles |
East Yorkshire Regiment | 1–3 | Hampsire Regiment |
Belfast Celtic | bye |
Replays
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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King's Own Scottish Borderers | 0–2 | King's Own Rifles |
Fifth round
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Linfield | 7–0 | Hampshire Regiment |
Glentoran | 8–0 | King's Own Rifles |
St Columb's Court | 2–3 | Belfast Celtic |
Freebooters | 2–4 | Bohemians |
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Glentoran | 2–2 | Belfast Celtic |
Linfield | 4–2 | Bohemians |
Replay
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Glentoran | 2–11 | Belfast Celtic |
- 1 Another replay was ordered after a protest.
Second replay
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Glentoran | 2–0 | Belfast Celtic |
Final
- 2 The match ended early after Glentoran players refused to continue claiming that a Linfield player had punched a shot clear from the goal-line and no penalty had been awarded.
References
- ↑ "Northern Ireland Cup Semifinals and Finals 1880–1950". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 19 June 2022.
- ↑ Alex Graham. Football in Northern Ireland, a statistical record 1881–2005. p. 17.
- ↑ "Football". Londonderry Sentinel. 1 October 1898. p. 3.
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