Alhambra Cup

{{Short description|Football competition in Ireland (1921–23)}}

{{Infobox football tournament

| name = Alhambra Cup

| organiser = {{nowrap|Irish Football Association}}

| current =

| founded = 1921

| abolished = 1922

| region = Northern Ireland

| number of teams =

| champion =

| most successful club = Cliftonville
Linfield
(1 title each)

}}

The Alhambra Cup was a football competition played for two seasons between clubs in the Irish League in 1921–22 and 1922–23. Six teams entered each season: Cliftonville, Distillery, Glenavon, Glentoran, Linfield and Queen's Island.{{cite web|url=http://home.online.no/~smogols/ifcp/archive/defunctalhambracup/alhambracup.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031124849/http://home.online.no/~smogols/ifcp/archive/defunctalhambracup/alhambracup.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 October 2015|title=Alhambra Cup|publisher=Irish Football Club Project|accessdate=2 September 2019}}

Final results

class="wikitable"
Season

!Date

!Winner

!Score

!Runner-up

!Venue

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|1921–22

|7 September 1921

|Linfield

|1 – 0

|Cliftonville

|The Oval, Belfast

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|1922–23

|30 August 1922

|Cliftonville

|2 – 0

|Linfield

|The Oval, Belfast

Sources

  • Malcolm Brodie, "100 Years of Irish Football", Blackstaff Press, Belfast (1980)

References

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