Northern Ireland's in Welsh Cup Finals and Premier League

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- English Cup - Scottish Cup - Welsh Cup - FAI Cup

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Northern Ireland Players in the Welsh Cup

Founded for the 1877/78 season, the Welsh Cup is the third oldest national knock-out competition in world football, with the trophy the second oldest in continuous use (after the Scottish Cup).

From its earliest days, the competition was supplemented by teams from across the English border (+), and was dominated by the Welsh clubs playing within the English league pyramid until they were barred in 1995 following a UEFA diktat.

Season	Winners		Runners-Up
1920/1	Les Murphy	Wrexham
1921/2	Bert Smith	Cardiff
1922/3	Tom Farquharson	Cardiff
	Bert Smith
1926/7	Tom Farquharson	Cardiff
	Sam Irving
	Tom Sloan
	Tom Watson
1927/8	Tom Farquharson	Cardiff
	Tom Sloan
1928/9			Tom Farquharson	Cardiff
1929/0	Tom Farquharson	Cardiff
1948/9	Bobby or Pat McIlvenny	Merthyr Tydfil	Rory Keane	Swansea
			Jackie O'Driscoll
			Sammy McCrory
1949/0			Bob McLaughlin	Wrexham
1950/1			Bob McLaughlin	Wrexham
1964/5			Sam McMillan	Wrexham
1965/6	Billy Humphries	Swansea
	Jim McLaughlin
1966/7			Sam McMillan	Wrexham
1969/0			Sam McMillan	Chester+
1972/3	Bill Irwin	Cardiff
1973/4	Bill Irwin	Cardiff
1974/5			John McClelland	Cardiff
1977/8			John McClelland	Bangor
1980/1	Jim Harvey	Hereford+
1983/4	Bernard McNally	Shrewsbury+
1989/0	Steve Devine	Hereford+
1991/2	Paul Ramsey	Cardiff
	Paul Millar
1992/3	Paul Ramsey	Cardiff
	Neil Matthews
	Paul Millar
1993/4			Paul Millar	Cardiff
1994/5	Barry Hunter	Wrexham	Paul Millar	Cardiff
2004/5	Gerard Doherty	TNS
2015/6 2018/9 2021/2 2022/3	Ryan Brobbel Ryan Brobbel Ryan Brobbel Ryan Brobbel	TNS TNS TNS TNS	- - Kostya Georgievsky -	- - Penybont  -

Notes:

• Most final appearances: 5 Tom Farquharson (Cardiff)
• Most wins: 4 Tom Farquharson (Cardiff)/Ryan Brobbel (TNS)
• Most runners-up: 3 Sammy McMillan (Wrexham and Chester)
• In 1926/27 Cardiff completed a unique “double” of English Cup and Welsh Cup. The four Irishmen above appeared in both finals.
• In 2015/16 The New Saints completed a domestic treble of Welsh Cup, Welsh Premier League and Welsh League Cup.
• Bobby and Pat McIlvenny were brothers. Clarification as to which one played in this match required.

Cardiff players, officials and fans showing off the "English" and Welsh Cups in 1927

Northern Ireland Players in the FAW Premier Cup

With some of the prestige of the the Welsh Cup lost following the removal of the clubs playing in the English leagues, the FAW launched the Invitation Cup in 1997/98. The competition, renamed as the Premier Cup for the second edition, pitted the leading clubs from the League of Wales (Welsh Premier League after 2002/03) against the “exiled” clubs. The competition folded in 2008 after losing sponsorship. There have since been unsuccessful attempts to bring the exiled clubs back into an FAW run competition.

Season	Winners		Runners-Up
1998/9	Dave Wells	Barry
2002/3	Jim Whitley	Wrexham
	Shaun Holmes
2003/4	Michael Ingham	Wrexham
	Shaun Holmes
2005/6			Michael Ingham	Wrexham
2006/7	Gerard Doherty	TNS

Notes:

• Most wins: 2 Shaun Holmes (Wrexham)

Premier Players (incomplete)

The League of Wales launched in 1992, giving Wales a national league competition for the first time. Wales' strongest sides continue to compete in the English pyramid. The league was renamed as the Welsh Premier League in 2002 and again to the Cymru Premier in 2019.Dele Adebola

• Adam Barton
• Ryan Brobbel
• Gerard Doherty
• Mark Graham
• Steve Jones
• Conall Murtagh
• Paul Ramsey
• Dave Wells
• Kostya Georgievsky