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Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup

Field	Value
name	Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup
organiser	Irish Football Association
Football Association of Ireland
founded	1941
abolished	1949
region	Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
number of teams	12
most successful club	Shamrock Rovers (4 titles)

Football Association of Ireland Republic of Ireland

The Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup was an association football competition that ran for eight seasons in Ireland between 1941 and 1949.

Each season's competition consisted of six teams from each of the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland), and their respective governing bodies (the Irish Football Association and the Football Association of Ireland).

Format

Played in knock out format, the matches were played on a two-legged basis. Dalymount Park, Dublin was used as the home venue by all the League of Ireland clubs. For the second round of the competition, the six first round winners were joined by the two best losers. It was an extremely popular competition, adding variety to the restricted war-time football diet and generated much needed and significant revenues to the competing clubs.

List of finals

Key:

Season	Winner
(number of titles)	Score	Runner-up	Venue
1941–42	IRL Dundalk (1)	1 – 0	IRL Shamrock Rovers	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1942–43	IRL Shamrock Rovers (1)	0 – 2	IRL Bohemians	Windsor Park, Belfast
2 – 0 (2 – 2 agg.) (19 – 9 corner kicks)	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1943–44	NIR Glentoran (1)	3 – 3	NIR Belfast Celtic	Windsor Park, Belfast
2 – 1 (5 – 4 agg.)	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1944–45	IRL Bohemians (1)	2 – 2	NIR Belfast Celtic	Windsor Park, Belfast
1 – 0 (3 – 2 agg.)	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1945–46	IRL Shamrock Rovers (2)	3 – 1	NIR Belfast Celtic	Windsor Park, Belfast
0 – 1 (3 – 2 agg.)	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1946–47	IRL Shamrock Rovers (3)	3 – 1	IRL Drumcondra	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1 – 0 (4 – 1 agg.)	Windsor Park, Belfast
1947–48	NIR Belfast Celtic (1)
NIR Distillery (1)	2 – 1		Solitude, Belfast (1st leg)
1948–49	IRL Shamrock Rovers (4)	3 – 0	IRL Dundalk	Dalymount Park, Dublin

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years	Runners-up years
Shamrock Rovers	4	1	1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49	1941–42
Belfast Celtic	1 (shared)	3	1947–48 (shared)	1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46
Dundalk	1	1	1941–42	1948–49
Bohemians	1	1	1944–45	1942–43
Glentoran	1	0	1943–44	—
Distillery	1 (shared)	0	1947–48 (shared)	—
Drumcondra	0	1	—	1946–47

Notes

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