IFA Women's Challenge Cup

IFA Women's Challenge Cup
Founded	2005
Region	Northern Ireland
Number of teams	40
Current champions	Glentoran Women (10th title)
Most successful club(s)	Glentoran Women; (10 titles)
Website	Irish Cup

For the equivalent tournament in the Republic of Ireland, see FAI Women's Cup.

The IFA Women's Challenge Cup or Irish Women's Cup is the annual cup competition of women's football teams in Northern Ireland. Currently branded as Electric Ireland Women's Challenge Cup due to sponsorship. It was first contested in 2005.^[1]^[2]

Format[edit]

The ten Women's Premiership teams enter the cup in the third round. Up to 32 other teams enter in the first round, if more enter a preliminary round is played.

List of finals[edit]

The list of finals:^[3]

Season	Champion	Result	Runner-Up
2005	Crusaders Strikers	2–0	Northland Raiders
2006^[4]	Glentoran Women	3–0	Northland Raiders
2007^[5]	Glentoran Women	2–1	Crusaders Strikers
2008	Glentoran Women	4–0	Linfield Ladies
2009	Glentoran Women	1–0	Crusaders Strikers
2010	Glentoran Women	1–0	Crusaders Strikers
2011^[6]	Crusaders Strikers	2–0	Glentoran Women
2012	Glentoran Women	3–2	Crusaders Strikers
2013	Linfield Ladies	2–1	Crusaders Strikers
2014^[7]	Linfield Ladies	(2–2 a.e.t) (8–7 pen)	Newry City Ladies
2015	Cliftonville Ladies	4–1	Crusaders Strikers
2016	Linfield Ladies	2–1	Cliftonville Ladies
2017^[8]	Sion Swifts Ladies	2–0	Newry City Ladies
2018^[9]	Glentoran Women	2–1	Linfield Ladies
2019	Glentoran Women	1–0	Linfield Ladies
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Glentoran Women	2–0	Crusaders Strikers
2022	Glentoran Women	2–1	Sion Swifts Ladies
2023	Glentoran Women	3–0	Cliftonville Ladies

Northern Irish Cups
Titles	Team
11	Glentoran Women
3	Linfield Ladies
2	Crusaders Strikers
1	Cliftonville Ladies
1	Sion Swifts Ladies

References[edit]

^ "Newtownabbey women win Irish Cup". BBC. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
^ "BRILLIANT end to the inaugural Nationwide Irish FA Women's Cup". irishfa.com. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
^ "Northern Ireland - List of Women Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
^ "Glentoran Belfast United complete the treble!". irishfa.com. 23 September 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
^ "Northern Ireland (Women) 2007". RSSSF. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
^ "Crusaders Strikers Win Coca Cola Women's Irish Cup". www.irishfa.com. 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
^ "LINFIELD LADIES WIN CUP FINAL THRILLER". irishfa.com. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ "Sion Swifts Lift Electric Ireland Cup - She Kicks Women's Football Magazine". shekicks.net. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Glentoran Women win dramatic final". BBC Sport.

External links[edit]

Cup at IrishFA.com
Cup at NIWFA, Northern Ireland Women's Football Association
Cup at women.soccerway.com

[1] "Newtownabbey women win Irish Cup". BBC. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

[2] "BRILLIANT end to the inaugural Nationwide Irish FA Women's Cup". irishfa.com. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 5 January 2015.

[3] "Northern Ireland - List of Women Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

[4] "Glentoran Belfast United complete the treble!". irishfa.com. 23 September 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

[rsssf2007-5] "Northern Ireland (Women) 2007". RSSSF. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

[irishfa300911-6] "Crusaders Strikers Win Coca Cola Women's Irish Cup". www.irishfa.com. 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.

[7] "LINFIELD LADIES WIN CUP FINAL THRILLER". irishfa.com. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.

[8] "Sion Swifts Lift Electric Ireland Cup - She Kicks Women's Football Magazine". shekicks.net. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[9] "Glentoran Women win dramatic final". BBC Sport.

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