1990–91 Irish League

The 1990–91 Irish League was the 90th edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Northern Irish football.

Irish League

Season	1990–91
Champions	Portadown 2nd Irish title
Matches played	240
Goals scored	748 (3.12 per match)
Top goalscorer	Stephen McBride (22)
← 1989–90 1991–92 →

Belfast

Ards

Ballyclare

Ballymena United

Bangor

Carrick

Coleraine

Distillery

Glenavon

Larne

Newry Town

Omagh Town

Portadown

Belfast teams : Cliftonville
Crusaders
Glentoran
Linfield

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Location of teams in the Irish League from 1990–95

Cliftonville

Crusaders

Glentoran

Linfield

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Location of Belfast-based teams in the Irish League from 1990–95

The league consisted of 16 teams, an increase from the previous season of 14 as Ballyclare Comrades and Omagh Town joined. Portadown won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portadown (C)	30	22	5	3	61	22	+39	71	Qualification for the European Cup first round
2	Bangor	30	19	4	7	52	29	+23	61	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
3	Glentoran	30	18	6	6	50	32	+18	60
4	Glenavon	30	17	6	7	63	38	+25	57	Qualification for the European Cup Winners' Cup first round
5	Newry Town	30	15	5	10	50	42	+8	50
6	Cliftonville	30	14	7	9	59	41	+18	49
7	Linfield	30	12	10	8	40	34	+6	46
8	Ballymena United	30	12	8	10	49	46	+3	44
9	Ards	30	12	7	11	47	40	+7	43
10	Crusaders	30	11	9	10	53	46	+7	42
11	Distillery	30	10	5	15	47	57	−10	35
12	Omagh Town	30	10	4	16	48	66	−18	34
13	Larne	30	8	6	16	41	59	−18	30
14	Ballyclare Comrades	30	5	6	19	33	68	−35	21
15	Carrick Rangers	30	4	5	21	30	58	−28	17
16	Coleraine	30	2	5	23	25	70	−45	11

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ARD	BAN	BLC	BLM	CRK	CLI	COL	CRU	DIS	GLV	GLT	LRN	LIN	NEW	OMA	POR
Ards		0–2	4–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–3	4–1	1–1	1–2	5–1	1–2
Bangor	1–1		3–0	2–2	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–1
Ballyclare Comrades	1–0	0–2		1–5	1–0	1–3	1–1	2–3	2–0	3–3	0–1	3–3	1–1	0–2	0–3	0–3
Ballymena United	4–1	3–0	1–1		2–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–2	4–3	2–3	4–4	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–2
Carrick Rangers	2–5	1–3	1–2	2–1		1–3	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–3	1–4
Cliftonville	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–3	0–2		2–0	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	4–0	2–2	6–0	3–2	1–2
Coleraine	0–1	0–4	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–2		1–1	3–4	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–4	1–4	1–3
Crusaders	0–2	3–2	1–2	0–0	3–3	1–1	4–1		4–1	1–3	2–0	5–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	2–3
Distillery	2–2	1–3	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–3		3–2	2–3	1–3	2–1	1–3	0–1	0–0
Glenavon	1–2	2–3	4–0	3–1	2–0	1–2	5–3	2–2	2–1		1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–1
Glentoran	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–2	4–0	2–0	3–1	2–0		1–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	1–1
Larne	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2	0–4	0–4	0–1		0–1	4–1	3–3	1–3
Linfield	1–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	0–4	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	4–2		1–2	0–0	0–1
Newry Town	3–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	3–1		2–1	1–3
Omagh Town	2–4	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–4	2–1	2–1	0–1	5–1	2–5	3–1	0–5	0–1	2–1		2–5
Portadown	1–0	2–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–2

Source: Irish League Archive
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

• Northern Ireland - List of final tables (RSSSF)