Ireland national football team (1882–1950)
The Irish football team represented the IFA 1882 to 1921 the whole of Ireland as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1921 the northern part of the island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The team from the Irish Football Association, based in Belfast was organized. It was thus the precursor of the national soccer team in Northern Ireland.
History
Ireland joined in 1882 to be an international match. In Belfast the team against England lost with 12:13 - a record that still endures for both associations. The first victory (4:1) followed in 16 countries game five years later, also in Belfast against Wales. The first home game outside Belfast took place in Dublin in 1900. By the end of 1920, the all-Ireland team completed 101 international matches, all against the other Home Countries England, Scotland and Wales.
Also the selection of the IFA after 1920 consisted of players from all over Ireland; at what point from the " all-Ireland " team, the " Northern Irish " team was, is controversial among experts. The change 1920-1921 is next to the RSSSF and the English Football Association; the FA considered, writes Peter Young, all matches of England against this team up to and including 1920 as games against Ireland, which thereafter. than matches against Northern Ireland Other chroniclers such as Guy Oliver see the transition until 1922-1923 or even 1923 and 1924, while others see the all-Ireland team up for the first official match of the national team of the Irish Free State, 1926. FIFA lists games in Northern Ireland from the match in England on 24. October 1924 also this team came as Ireland initially only against the three home -country teams; the first game against a non-UK opponents made Northern Ireland until August 11, 1948 against the United States ( a 5-0 win in Belfast).
Since 1924 there have been competitive the national team of the FAI, which also acted as Ireland and how the team at IFA had claim to represent the whole island. Both teams relied players from the Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland each in their selection. There were players who had stakes in both national teams; For example, Johnny Carey, who played 1937-1953 38 times for Ireland - 29 times for the IFA - choice and nine times for the FAI selection. At least 38 players played for both teams. As the team at IFA 1928 to 1946 was not a member of FIFA, there were no problems - this appeared only during the World Cup qualifiers in 1950, both the Republic of Ireland competed as a player in Group 5, but in parallel also in the IFA selection in the British Home Championship played, at the same time was also as a qualification for the World Cup this year. After four players had accumulated in parts of both teams reached a FIFA and regulated that in the two national teams from then on were only allowed to take players who were born within the limits.
Up to this time the team of IFA as the FAI was under the name of Ireland, Ireland, competed. Since 1954, when the FIFA prevailed this scheme, the team plays officially as Northern Ireland; only in the British Home Championship, it was until the second half of the 1970s continue to Ireland.
Title
- British Home Championship twice winner in 1903 ( shared title ), 1914
- Second four times: 1926, 1928, 1938, 1947
Players (selection)
- Tom Aherne
- Joe Bambrick
- Danny Blanchflower
- Louis Bookman
- Tommy Breen
- Johnny Carey
- Harry Chatton
- Billy Crone
- Peter Doherty
- Tommy Eglington
- Tom Farquharson
- Peter Farrell
- Patsy Gallacher
- George Gaukrodger
- Billy Gillespie
- Archie Goodall
- Val Harris
- Bobby Irvine
- Sam Irving
- Jimmy Kelly
- Jack Kirwan
- Bill Lacey
- Con Martin
- Billy McCracken
- Robert Milne
- Patrick O'Connell
- Kevin O'Flanagan
- John Peden
- Jack Reynolds
- Reg Ryan
- Billy Scott
- Elisha Scott
- Paddy Sloan
- Olphert Stanfield
- Alex Stevenson
- Jackie Vernon
- Billy Walsh
- Davy Walsh