2022 Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland)

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Champions Cliftonville Ladies
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The 2022 Northern Irish Women's Premiership, known as the Danske Bank Women's Premiership for sponsorship reasons [1] was the 19th season of the top-tier women's football league in Northern Ireland. Glentoran Ladies were the defending champions. [2] Cliftonville Ladies won their first league title. [3]

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Teams and locations

The following teams made up the 2022 season.

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Belfast
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Derry
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Strabane
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Lisburn
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Location of teams in the 2022 season

Teams are listed in alphabetical order.

TeamLocationStadiumCapacity
Cliftonville Belfast (Oldpark) Solitude 2,530
Crusaders Strikers Belfast (Newtownabbey) Seaview 3,383
Derry City Derry Brandywell Stadium 3,700
Glentoran Belfast (Sydenham) The Oval 26,556
Linfield Belfast (Boucher Road)New Midgley Parkn/k
Lisburn Ladies Lisburn Bluebell Stadium 1,280
Mid-Ulster Ladies Cookstown Mid-Ulster Sports Arenan/k
Sion Swifts Strabane Melvin Sports Complexn/k

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Cliftonville Ladies F.C. (C)141301597+5239Qualification for the Champions League first round
2 Glentoran 141121619+5235
3 Crusaders Strikers 149233819+1929
4 Linfield 147253225+723
5 Sion Swifts 146263022+820
6 Lisburn Ladies 1422101343−308
7 Mid-Ulster Ladies 1411121157−464
8 Derry City 140311264−623
Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2022. Source:

For the 2022 season, no team was relegated as the league was to increase to ten teams from the 2023 season onwards. [4]

Results

Home \ Away CLI CRS DER GLE LIN LIS MID SIO
Cliftonville —4–16–03–04–04–18–02–0
Crusaders 1–2—3–00–01–15–24–12–1
Derry City 0–70–7—0–101–30–00–20–3
Glentoran 3–15–07–0—7–14–010–13–1
Linfield 1–30–17–00–4—2–16–01–1
Lisburn Ladies 0–50–50–00–41–4—2–01–5
Mid-Ulster Ladies 0–62–41–11–30–42–4—1–2
Sion Swifts 0–41–48–01–11–23–13–0—
Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2022. Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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References

  1. ↑ "Northern Ireland Football League confirm Danske Bank partnership to end after 11 years". News Letter. 30 Mar 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "belfastlive.co.uk" . Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Cliftonville Ladies seal their place in history books with first ever Women's Premiership title success". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "NIFL Women's Premiership prize money more than trebled". Shekicks.net. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
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