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Line 1: {{Short description\|Defunct Irish rugby union club, based in Belfast}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox rugby team Line 4 ⟶ 6: \| image = NIFCCLOGO.jpg \| imagesize = \| union = [[Irish Rugby Football Union\|IRFU]]<br />[[Ulster Rugby\|Ulster]] \| fullname = North of Ireland Football Club \| nickname = Line 10 ⟶ 12: \| countryflag = IRE \| countryflagvar = rugby \| founded = {{start date and age\|1868}} \| region = \| ground = Ormeau Road<br />[[Belfast]] \| capacity = \| chairman = Line 19 ⟶ 21: \| coach = \| url = \| league = [[Ulster Senior League (rugby union)\|Ulster Senior League]]<br />[[AIB League]] \| season = \| position = \|}} '''North of Ireland Football Club''' is a former Irish [[rugby union]] club that was based in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - [[Dublin University Football Club\|Dublin University]] and [[Wanderers F.C. (rugby union)\|Wanderers]] - were formed earlier anywhere else in all [[Ireland]].<ref>[http://www.irishrugby.ie/300_285.php www.irishrugby.ie] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215537/http://www.irishrugby.ie/300_285.php \|date=2013-12-12 }}</ref><ref name="The Ireland Rugby Miscellany 2007">''The Ireland Rugby Miscellany'' (2007): Ciaran Cronin</ref> It was founded in 1868 by members of North of Ireland Cricket Club.<ref>{{cite journal \|first=David \|last=Hassan \|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/FootballStudies/2003/FS0601d.pdf \|title=Rugby Union, Irish Nationalism and National Identity in Northern Ireland \|journal=Football Studies \|issue=1 \|date=2003 \|volume=6 \|publisher=University of Ulster, Jordanstown}}</ref> NIFC also played in the first recorded rugby game in [[Ulster]] when they played a 20-a-side match against [[Queen's University RFC]]. Throughout its history, NIFC was one of the most successful clubs in Ulster rugby, winning eighteen [[Ulster Senior League (rugby union)\|Ulster Senior League]] titles and eighteen [[Ulster Senior Cup]] titles. They also played several seasons in the [[AIB League]] before merging with [[Collegians (Belfast)\|Collegians]] in 1999 to form [[Belfast Harlequins]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.irishrugby.ie/23_7866.php?PHPSESSID=2ef47a7b8ce5adc00dfe62c38c3d6740\|title= www.irishrugby.ie}}{{Dead link\|~~publisher~~date=April 2020 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The club left its historic home on the Ormeau Road (one of the earliest international rugby venues in Ireland<ref>See references to Ireland's matches against Scotland from 1877 to 1889: [http://www.irishrugby.ie/18104_18114.php Ireland v Scotland - Head to Head Statistics] {{webarchive\|url=https://archive.istoday/20120904033126/http://www.irishrugby.ie/18104_18114.php \|date=2012-09-04 }}</ref>) after a series of sectarian arson attacks, including the burning of its pavilion. The club, with a mainly Protestant membership, was perceived as being "isolated in a zone of working-class nationalism".<ref>D. Sharrock, ‘Goodbye to all that, as the Belfast sporting club where W.G. Grace swung his bat uproots for Protestant sanctuary’, The Guardian, 13 August 1997, p. 6.</ref><ref>{{cite journal \|first=Mike \|last= Cronin \|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/ISS/ISS2201/ISS2201d.pdf \|title="Catholics and Sport in Northern Ireland: Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness?" \|journal=International Sports Studies \|issue=1 \|date=200o \|volume=2 \|publisher=Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH }}</ref> ==Notable players== Line 40 ⟶ 42: \|- style="vertical-align:top" \|\| * [[Stephen Blake-Knox]] * [[Robert Alexander (rugby player and cricketer)\|Robert Alexander]] * Norman Brann * [[Ian Davidson (rugby union)\|Ian Davidson]] * [[Thomas Gisborne Gordon]], the only one handed player in international rugby.<ref name = "Planet Rugby">{{cite news\|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0503/1224269590998.html\|title=Planet rugby\|first=John \|last=O'Sullivan\|newspaper=[[Irish Times]]\|date=3 May 2010}}</ref> * [[Gordon Hamilton (rugby union)\|Gordon Hamilton]]<ref>{{cite news \|first=Brendan \|last=Cole \|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup2007/moments1991.html \|title=RTÉ Sport: 1991: Gordon Hamilton Scores \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919040641/http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup2007/moments1991.html \|archive-date=19 September 2007 \|publisher=[[~~RTE~~RTÉ]] \|url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[David Hewitt (rugby footballer born 1939)\|David Hewitt]] R.D. Scott \|\| [[Jack Kyle]] * [[Mike Gibson (rugby union)\|Mike Gibson]] * [[Arthur Norman McClinton]] * Harry Neill <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsN.htm\|title=ulsterbiography.co.uk\|website=www.ulsterbiography.co.uk\|access-date=2008-10-06\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705103505/http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsN.htm\|archive-date=2008-07-05\|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Albert Stewart (rugby player)\|Albert Stewart]] * [[Dolway Walkington]] Line 58 ⟶ 61: ===British and Irish Lions=== The following NIFC players also represented the [[British and Irish Lions]].<ref name="The Ireland Rugby Miscellany 2007"/> {\| Line 85 ⟶ 88: *1934-35 [[Ulster Senior Cup (rugby union)\|Ulster Senior Cup]]: 18 1884–85, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1894–95, 1895–96, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1901–02, 1907–08, 1919–20, 1929–30, 1934–35, 1938–39, 1954–55, 1968–69, 1972–73 1884-85, 1892-93, 1893-94, 1894-95, 1895-96, 1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1900-01, 1901-02, 1907-08, 1919-20, 1929-30, 1934-35, 1938-39, 1954-55, 1968-69, 1972-73 [[Ulster Senior League (rugby union)\|Ulster Senior League]]: 18 (1 shared) * ~~1891-92~~1891–92, ~~1892-93~~1892–93, ~~1893-94~~1893–94, ~~1894-95~~1894–95, ~~1895-96~~1895–96, ~~1896-97~~1896–97, ~~1897-98~~1897–98, ~~1898-99~~1898–99, ~~1900-01~~1900–01, ~~1901-02~~1901–02, ~~1908-09~~1908–09, ~~1920-21~~1920–21, 1926-27 (shared), ~~1945-46~~1945–46, ~~1954-55~~1954–55, ~~1958-59~~1958–59, ~~1965-66~~1965–66, ~~1991-92~~1991–92 [[Ulster Junior Cup]]: 9 * †1894-95, †1906-07, †1907-08, †1908-09, †1935-36, †1953-54, †1956-57, †1962-63, †1984-85 Line 99 ⟶ 102: [[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1868]] [[Category:~~Irish rugby~~Rugby union teams in Ireland]] [[Category:Rugby union clubs in Northern Ireland]] [[Category:Belfast Harlequins]]