The Irish FA Charity Shield is a now-defunct football competition which involved teams from Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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 that was held on an occasional basis through the 1990s and early-2000s. Similar to the English FA Charity Shield (now Community Shield) it pitted together the previous campaign's Irish League

IFA Premiership

The IFA Premiership – formerly the Irish Premier League, and before that the Irish Football League–and still known in popular parlance simply as the Irish League, is the national football league in Northern Ireland, and was historically the league for the whole of Ireland. Clubs in the league are...

 champions and Irish Cup

Irish Cup

For the equivalent tournament in the Republic of Ireland, see FAI Cup.The Irish Cup is the national cup knock-out competition in Northern Irish football. Inaugurated in 1881, it is the fourth oldest national cup competition in the world...

 winners and provided the opening match of the Irish League season.

Sponsorship

The competition ran only when a willing sponsor was available. The two companies to provide sponsorship were McEwan's Lager (1992–1994) and Wilkinson Sword

Wilkinson Sword

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 (1998–2000), both of whom also sponsored other competitions in Irish League football.

Format

Held in early August as a single match, if the scores were level at full-time the trophy was shared between the two competing sides for a period of six months.

Matches

Date	Teams	Score	Team	Venue	Notes
8 August 1992	Glentoran	1-1	Glenavon	Windsor Park, Belfast	Trophy Shared
10 August 1993	Bangor	1-1	Linfield	Windsor Park, Belfast	Trophy Shared
3 August 1994	Linfield	2-0	Bangor	Windsor Park, Belfast
8 August 1998	Cliftonville	1-0	Glentoran	The Oval, Belfast
8 August 1999	Portadown	2-1	Glentoran	Mourneview Park, Lurgan
5 August 2000	Linfield	2-0	Glentoran	Windsor Park, Belfast

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Shared	Runners-Up
Linfield Linfield F.C. Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....	2	1	0
Cliftonville Cliftonville F.C. Cliftonville Football & Athletic Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. Founded on 20 September 1879 by John McCredy McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast, it is the oldest football club in Ireland and celebrated its 130th...	1	0	0
Portadown Portadown F.C. Portadown F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club which plays in the IFA Premiership.The club was founded in the late 1880s and joined the Irish League in 1924. It is based in Portadown in County Armagh and plays its home games at Shamrock Park...	1	0	0
Glentoran Glentoran F.C. Glentoran F.C. is a semi-professional, football club in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 and plays its home games at the Oval in east Belfast. Club colours are green, red, and black.Glentoran's biggest rivals are Linfield...	0	1	3
Bangor Bangor F.C. Bangor Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in IFA Championship 1. The club, founded in 1918, hails from Bangor and plays its home matches at Clandeboye Park. Club colours are gold and royal blue...	0	1	1
Glenavon Glenavon F.C. Glenavon F.C. is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Lurgan and plays its home matches at Mourneview Park...	0	1	0