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Players awarded 50 plus caps by Northern Ireland:

Player	Career	Caps	St	(Sb)	Gls
Steven Davis Pat Jennings Aaron Hughes David Healy Mal Donaghy Sammy McIlroy Maik Taylor Keith Gillespie Jimmy Nicholl Chris Baird Michael Hughes David McCreery Nigel Worthington Martin O’Neill Gerry Armstrong Terry Neill Iain Dowie Danny Blanchflower Billy Bingham Damien Johnson Jimmy McIlroy Stephen Craigan Allan Hunter John McClelland Gareth McAuley Alan McDonald Jim Magilton Sammy Nelson Chris Nicholl Gerry Taggart Bryan Hamilton James Quinn Chris Brunt Kyle Lafferty Niall McGinn	2005-date 1964-1986 1998-date 2000-2013 1980-1994 1972-1986 1999-2011 1994-2008 1976-1986 2003-date 1991-2004 1976-1990 1984-1997 1971-1984 1977-1986 1961-1973 1990-1999 1949-1962 1951-1963 1999-2009 1951-1965 2003-2011 1969-1979 1980-1990 2005-date 1985-1996 1991-2002 1971-1982 1975-1983 1990-2002 1968-1980 1996-2006 2004-date 2006-date 2008-date	120 119 *100 95 91 88 88 86 73 72 71 67 66 64 63 59 59 56 56 56 55 54 53 53 53 52 52 51 51 51 50 50 50 *50 *50	- 119 94 83 90 86 85 77 72 66 67 55 60 58 56 59 51 56 56 48 55 51 53 50 48 51 50 48 49 50 46 35 42 - -	- - 2 12 1 2 3 9 1 6 4 12 6 6 7 - 8 - - 8 - 3 - 3 5 1 2 3 2 1 4 15 8 - -	- 0 1 36 0 5 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 7 12 2 12 2 9 0 10 0 1 1 5 3 5 1 3 7 4 4 1 - -

* players have reached these milestones since last update - full stats to follow.

Honourable Mention:
Pat Rice.......... 1968-1979.. 49.. 49 ..... 0



Cap Milestones
First
to..Player......... Date...... Opponent
. 5 JR Davison..... 26-01-1884 Scotland
. 8 JR Davison..... 28-02-1885 England
. 9 AH Dill........ 11-04-1885 Wales
.10 TB Molyneaux... 20-03-1886 Scotland
.11 TB Molyneaux... 24-03-1888 Scotland
.12 W Crone........ 08-02-1890 Wales
.15 OM Stanfield... 27-02-1892 Wales
.20 OM Stanfield... 24-02-1894 Wales (new world record)
.25 OM Stanfield... 29-02-1896 Wales
.30 OM Stanfield... 27-03-1897 Scotland  (world record stood until 1909)
.31 E Scott........ 11-03-1936 Wales
.40 RD Blanchflower 03-10-1959 Scotland
.50 RD Blanchflower 22-11-1961 England
.56 RD Blanchflower 28-11-1962 Poland 

=56 WL Bingam...... 20-11-1963 England

.59 WJT Neill...... 19-05-1973 Wales
.60 PA Jennings.... 11-05-1976 England*
.75 PA Jennings.... 07-02-1979 England
100 PA Jennings.... 21-09-1983 Austria 

109 PA Jennings.... 27-03-1985 Spain (new British record)

117 PA Jennings.... 03-06-1986 Algeria (new European record)#

119 PA Jennings.... 12-06-1986 Brazil (British and European records stood until 1990)

120 S Davis ....... 08-10-2020 Bosnia-Herzegovina

124 S Davis ....... 15-11-2020 Austria

# when Jennings won his 117th cap he surpassed Sweden's Bjorn Nordqvist's European record. At the time it was widely reported as a new world record, however, it had already been surpassed by South Korea's Cha Bum-Kun. Like Jennings, Bum-Kun brought his international career to a close at the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico with a total of between 121 and 136 caps (depending on criteria used). Similarly, and although also widely reported, when England's Peter Shilton surpassed Jennings in 1990 he only claimed the British and European records.

* Outfield Player Records
.60 SB McIlroy..... 01-07-1982 Austria
.75 SB McIlroy..... 27-05-1984 Finland
.88 SB McIlroy..... 15-10-1986 England
.91 MM Donaghy..... 11-06-1994 Mexico
.92 DJ Healy....... 29-02-2012 Norway
.95 DJ Healy....... 26-03-2013 Israel
.96 AW Hughes...... 31-05-2015 Qatar
100 AW Hughes...... 04-06-2016 Slovakia

112 AW Hughes...... 03-06-2018 Costa Rica

119 S Davis........ 07-09-2020 Norway

Figures in BOLD denotes a player's final cap.

Top Appearances by Competition:

World Cup Finals
#	Apps	Players
=1	8	Billy Hamilton
		David McCreery
		Sammy McIlroy
		Jimmy Nicholl
		Norman Whiteside
World Cup Qualifiers
#	Apps	Players
1	33	Pat Jennings
2	32	Aaron Hughes
=3	31	Mal Donaghy
		David Healy
European Qualifiers ±
#	Apps	Players
1	32	Aaron Hughes
2	31	Keith Gillespie
=3	29	Maik Taylor
		David Healy
British Championships
#	Apps	Players
1	43	Pat Jennings
2	33	Jimmy McIlroy
=3	32	Danny Blanchflower
	32	Sammy McIlroy
Minor Tournaments *
#	Apps	Players
=1	3	Liam Boyce
	3	Lee Hodson
	3	Gareth McAuley
	3	Niall McGinn
	3	Oliver Norwood
Friendly Matches
#	Apps	Players
1	35	Maik Taylor
2	34	David Healy
3	32	Aaron Hughes

± includes matches in European Nations Cup; * includes matches in the Canada Cup and Carling Nations Cup.

See also:
50 Cap Club