1898–99 Irish Cup

1898–99 Irish Cup

Tournament details
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
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
King's Own Rifles	w/o	Royal Irish Rifles

Third round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
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	3–0	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
East Yorkshire Regiment	1–1	Rifle Brigade
Derry Hibernians	1–2	North End

Second replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
East Yorkshire Regiment	2–1	Rifle Brigade

Fourth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Glentoran	4–0	North End
Linfield	w/o	Inniskilling Fusiliers
St Columb's Court	2–1 (a.e.t.)	1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers
Freebooters	5–0	Yorkshire Regiment
Bohemians	3–1	Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
King's Own Scottish Borderers	1–1	King's Own Rifles
East Yorkshire Regiment	1–3	Hampshire Regiment
Belfast Celtic	bye

Replays

Team 1	Score	Team 2
King's Own Scottish Borderers	0–2	King's Own Rifles

Fifth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
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
Glentoran	2–2	Belfast Celtic
Linfield	4–2	Bohemians

Replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Glentoran	2–1^1	Belfast Celtic

• ^1 Another replay was ordered after a protest.

Second replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Glentoran	2–0	Belfast Celtic

Final

19 March 1898

Linfield	1–0^2	Glentoran
Peden	Report

Solitude, Belfast

Attendance: 7,000

• ^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

1. "Northern Ireland Cup Semifinals and Finals 1880–1950". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 19 June 2022.
2. Alex Graham. Football in Northern Ireland, a statistical record 1881–2005. p. 17.
3. "Football". Londonderry Sentinel. 1 October 1898. p. 3.

External links

• Northern Ireland Cup Finals. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)