Northern Ireland Soccer Post

Leagues Information

The Soccer Post is the country’s only weekly grassroots football newspaper, giving a voice to every player, club and league in the country.

Football in Northern Ireland is loosely categorised into three levels; senior, intermediate and junior. Senior football is an umbrella term for the professional and semi-professional game, covering the superstars who ply their trade in the glamorous stadiums across the water to the top flight in the Irish League, the IFA Premiership.

Intermediate football is the next level, and includes the second tier of the Irish League, the IFA Championship, as well as the top divisions of the Amateur League, the Mid-Ulster League, the Ballymena Provincial and Intermediate League and the NI Intermediate League.

And finally junior football makes up the rest and represents by far the most clubs, divisions, players and officials in the country.

Youth football meanwhile is divided into age-groups, from mini-soccer aimed at primary school age footballers right up to the Development and excellence programmes targeting mid-to-late teenage footballers.

Leagues covered by the Soccer Post include the following:

* IFA Premiership
* IFA Championship
* Amateur League
* Mid-Ulster League
* Ballymena Provincial and Intermediate League
* NI Intermediate League
* Fermanagh and Western League
* Ballymena Saturday Morning
* North West Saturday Morning
* North West Junior
* Down Area
* Belfast and District
* BBOB
* Newcastle and District
* Carnbane
* Belfast Sunday Premier
* South Antrim
* Coleraine and District

The Soccer Post also has a dedicated section for youth football.