1898–99 Irish Cup

Teams from Belfast, Dublin and the north west of Ireland were given byes in the first two rounds while several Army teams were selected to play in the first two rounds.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001480/18981001/046/0003|title=Football|work=Londonderry Sentinel|date=1 October 1898|page=3}}

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{{OneLegResult|8th Hussars||1–5|Royal Fusiliers}}

{{OneLegResult|South Staffordshire Regiment||w/o|Hampshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Cheshire Regiment||1–2|King's Own Rifles}}

{{OneLegResult|Connaught Rangers||1–0|Oxfordshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Inniskilling Fusiliers||3–1|Inniskilling Dragoons}}

{{OneLegResult|Royal Irish Rifles||bye|}}

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{{OneLegResult|King's Own Rifles||w/o|Royal Irish Rifles}}

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{{OneLegResult|Bohemians||4–0|Bedford Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Rifle Brigade||1–1|East Yorkshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Freebooters||w/o|Trinity}}

{{OneLegResult|Yorkshire Regiment||3–0|Connaught Rangers}}

{{OneLegResult|Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders||3–0|Royal Fusiliers}}

{{OneLegResult|14th Hussars||0–3|King's Own Scottish Borderers}}

{{OneLegResult|North Staffordshire Regiment||2–4|Linfield}}

{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||3–0|Distillery}}

{{OneLegResult|Celtic||7–0|Cliftonville}}

{{OneLegResult|North End||3–3|Derry Hibernians}}

{{OneLegResult|St Columb's Court||w/o|Limavady}}

{{OneLegResult|Inniskilling Fusiliers||5–2|St Columb's Hall Celtic}}

{{OneLegResult|Hampshire Regiment||bye|}}

{{OneLegResult|1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers||bye|}}

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{{OneLegResult|East Yorkshire Regiment||1–1|Rifle Brigade}}

{{OneLegResult|Derry Hibernians||1–2|North End}}

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{{OneLegResult|East Yorkshire Regiment||2–1|Rifle Brigade}}

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{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||4–0|North End}}

{{OneLegResult|Linfield||w/o|Inniskilling Fusiliers}}

{{OneLegResult|St Columb's Court||2–1 (a.e.t.)|1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers}}

{{OneLegResult|Freebooters||5–0|Yorkshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Bohemians||3–1|Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders}}

{{OneLegResult|King's Own Scottish Borderers||1–1|King's Own Rifles}}

{{OneLegResult|East Yorkshire Regiment||1–3|Hampshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Celtic||bye|}}

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{{OneLegResult|King's Own Scottish Borderers||0–2|King's Own Rifles}}

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{{OneLegResult|Linfield||7–0|Hampshire Regiment}}

{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||8–0|King's Own Rifles}}

{{OneLegResult|St Columb's Court||2–3|Celtic}}

{{OneLegResult|Freebooters||2–4|Bohemians}}

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{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||2–2|Celtic}}

{{OneLegResult|Linfield||4–2|Bohemians}}

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{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||2–1¹|Celtic}}

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• ¹ A replay was ordered after a protest.

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{{OneLegResult|Celtic||2–1¹|Glentoran}}

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• ¹ Another replay was ordered after a protest.

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{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||2–0¹|Celtic}}

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• ¹ After a pitch incursion the match was suspended. Celtic refused to return and the tie was awarded to Glentoran.

{{football box

|date=19 March 1898

|time=

|team1=Linfield

|score=1–0²

|aet=

|report=[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004162/18990318/018/0002?browse=true Report]

|team2=Glentoran

|goals1=Peden {{goal}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Solitude, Belfast

|attendance=7,000

|referee=

}}

• ² The match ended early after Glentoran players refused to continue claiming that a Linfield player had punched a shot clear from the goal-line and no penalty had been awarded.

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• [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilcuphist.html Northern Ireland Cup Finals]. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)

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