Football tournament season
Tournament details | |
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Country | ![]() |
Teams | 32 |
Defending champions | Glentoran |
Final positions | |
Champions | Glenavon (5th win) |
Runner-up | Cliftonville |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 39 |
Goals scored | 108 (2.77 per match) |
The 1996β97 Irish Cup was the: 117th edition of theββIrish Cup, Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 3 May 1997 with the "final."
Glentoran were the defending champions after winning their 16th Irish Cup last season, with a 1β0 win over Glenavon in the 1996 final. This season Glenavon went one better by, "winning the cup for the 5th time," with a 1β0 win over Cliftonville in the final.
Fifth roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ballyclare Comrades | 2β3 | Cliftonville |
Bangor | 3β0 | Ballymena United |
Brantwood | 0β2 | Dundela |
British Telecom | 1β1 | Crumlin United |
Carrick Rangers | 0β0 | RUC |
Coleraine | 2β1 | Linfield |
Crusaders | 4β1 | Institute |
Drumaness Mills | 1β3 | Limavady United |
Dungannon Swifts | 1β1 | Loughgall |
Enkalon | 1β1 | Portstewart |
Glenavon | 1β0 | Ards |
Glentoran | 4β0 | Distillery |
Larne | 0β2 | Coagh United |
Newry Town | 0β0 | Omagh Town |
Park | 0β4 | Chimney Corner |
Portadown | 3β0 | Dunmurry Rec. |
Replaysβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Crumlin United | 4β1 | British Telecom |
Loughgall | 3β1 | Dungannon Swifts |
Omagh Town | 1β0 | Newry Town |
Portstewart | 3β1 | Enkalon |
RUC | 2β1 | Carrick Rangers |
Sixth roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Crumlin United | 1β2 | Loughgall |
Crusaders | 1β0 | Portadown |
Dundela | 1β2 | Coagh United |
Glenavon | 2β0 | Glentoran |
Limavady United | 1β1 | Bangor |
Omagh Town | 3β2 | Chimney Corner |
Portstewart | 0β1 | Coleraine |
RUC | 0β3 | Cliftonville |
Replayβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Bangor | 0β2 | Limavady United |
Quarter-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Cliftonville | 3β1 | Crusaders |
Glenavon | 4β1 | Coagh United |
Loughgall | 1β1 | Coleraine |
Omagh Town | 2β2 | Limavady United |
Replaysβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Coleraine | 0β1 | Loughgall |
Limavady United | 0β1 | Omagh Town |
Semi-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Cliftonville | 3β1 | Loughgall |
Glenavon | 5β0 | Omagh Town |
Finalβ»
Glenavon | 1 β 0 | Cliftonville |
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Grant ![]() |
Report |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Northern Ireland Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- ^ "Northern Ireland 1996/97". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2 November 2012.