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2009–10 IFA Premiership

Field	Value
competition	IFA Premiership
season	2009–10
winners	Linfield
1st Premiership title
49th Irish title
relegated	Institute
continentalcup1	UEFA Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Linfield
continentalcup2	UEFA Europa League
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Cliftonville
Glentoran
Portadown
league topscorer	Rory Patterson (30 goals)
biggest home win	Portadown 6–1 Lisburn Distillery
biggest away win	Dungannon Swifts 2–8 Portadown
Newry City 0–6 Linfield
Glentoran 0–6 Coleraine
highest scoring	Dungannon Swifts 2–8 Portadown
matches	228
total goals	676
prevseason	2008–09
nextseason	2010–11

1st Premiership title 49th Irish title Glentoran Portadown Newry City 0–6 Linfield Glentoran 0–6 Coleraine The 2009–10 IFA Premiership (known as the Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the 2nd season of the IFA Premiership, the highest level of league football in Northern Ireland, and the 109th season of Irish league football overall.

Linfield were champions, winning the league for the 49th time.

Summary

It began on 8 August 2009 and ended on 1 May 2010. Glentoran were the defending champions. On 27 April 2010, Linfield clinched the title after a 1–0 victory against Cliftonville at Windsor Park. On 14 May 2010, Institute were relegated to the 2010–11 IFA Championship, after losing the two-legged relegation play-off to Donegal Celtic, who took their place in the 2010–11 IFA Premiership.

Team changes from 2008–09

On 2 February 2009, Bangor's board announced that they would not be able to renew their domestic licence due to financial difficulties, and thereby would not compete in this season's premiership. They finished the 2008–09 season in 11th place. As a consequence, 12th-placed Dungannon Swifts, who were originally going to be directly relegated to the IFA Championship, earned the relegation play-off berth from Bangor. After a two-legged series against 2008–09 Championship runners-up Donegal Celtic, which ended in an aggregated 2–2 tie, Dungannon eventually retained their Premiership status on away goals.

Promoted from the Championship were 2008–09 champions Portadown, which marked their return to the highest football league of Northern Ireland after a one-year hiatus.

Stadia and locations

Club	Stadium	Town/city	Capacity
Ballymena United	The Showgrounds	Ballymena		8,000 (4,000 seats)
Cliftonville	Solitude	Belfast		8,000 (2,099 seats)
Coleraine	The Showgrounds	Coleraine		6,500 (1,500 seats)
Crusaders	Seaview	Belfast		6,500 (500 seats)
Dungannon Swifts	Stangmore Park	Dungannon		3,000 (300 seats)
Glenavon	Mourneview Park	Lurgan		5,500 (4,000 seats)
Glentoran	The Oval	Belfast	15,250 (5,000 seats)
Institute	YMCA Grounds	Drumahoe		4,000 (600 seats)
Linfield	Windsor Park	Belfast		20,400 (14,400 seats)
Lisburn Distillery	New Grosvenor Stadium	Lisburn		8,000 (2,000 seats)
Newry City	The Showgrounds	Newry		6,500 (800 seats)
Portadown	Shamrock Park	Portadown		8,000 (3,500 seats)

League table

Results

Matches 1–22

During matches 1–22 each team played every other team twice (home and away).

Matches 23–33

During matches 23–33 each team played every other team for the third time (either at home, or away).

Matches 34–38

During matches 34–38 each team played every other team in their half of the table once. As this was the fourth time that teams played each other this season, home sides in this round were chosen so that teams had played each other twice at home and twice away.

Section A

Section B

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	url=http://www.ifapremiership.com/ifapremiershipscorers.htm
1	NIR Rory Patterson	Coleraine	30
2	NIR Darren Boyce	Coleraine	17
NIR George McMullan	Cliftonville	17
4	NIR Liam Boyce	Cliftonville	16
5	NIR Kevin Braniff	Portadown	14
NIR Richard Lecky	Portadown	14
NIR David Rainey	Crusaders	14
NIR Glenn Ferguson	Lisburn Distillery	14
9	NIR Timmy Adamson	Dungannon Swifts	13
10	SCO Gary McCutcheon	Portadown	12

Promotion/relegation play-off

The promotion/relegation play-off was slightly altered this season because Donegal Celtic, runners-up of the 2009–10 IFA Championship, were the only IFA Championship club to hold the Domestic Club Licence required to participate in the Premiership. Lisburn Distillery, who finished in 11th place, avoided having to play a relegation play-off, which was passed down instead to Institute, who finished in 12th place and would normally have been automatically relegated. The first leg ended 0-0, with Institute having a penalty saved in injury-time at the end of the game. The second leg stayed goalless until the 85th minute, when Stephen McAlorum scored for Donegal Celtic, to relegate Institute to the 2010–11 IFA Championship.

Donegal Celtic won 1–0 on aggregate and were promoted, Institute were relegated

References

(27 April 2010). "Linfield 1–0 Cliftonville". BBC Sport.
(14 May 2010). "Institute 0-1 Donegal Celtic". BBC Sport.
(2 February 2009). "Quinn appointed Glenavon manager". BBC Sport.
"Carling Premiership – Leading Scorers". IFA Premiership.

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