Belfast, Northern Ireland

Grounds in Belfast

name opened capacity cost games attendance
Windsor Park 12950 — 36 559241

Players born in Belfast

32 born here. 23 of them have an appearance on record, 1,573 games between them.

Players born in Belfast, most games played first
# name born gp min g
1 Billy Pitt — 187 — 1
2 Victor Moreland 164 — 14
3 Billy Caskey 155 — 33
4 Harry Chatton 145 — 1
5 George Best 139 — 54
6 Brian Quinn 134 2871 11
7 Martin Donnelly 116 — 2
8 Willie Reid — 87 540 6
9 Mickey Hamill 67 — 1
10 David McCreery 45 — 0
11 Steve Morrow 44 3943 4
12 Billy Horner 42 — 0
13 Chris McGrath 40 — 3
14 Joseph Gregretsky — 34 — 19
15 Jim Gibson 32 — 0
16 Jim Lemon 31 — 0
17 Tom Armstrong 28 — 6
18 Arnold Keenan — 20 — 7
19 Colin McCurdy 19 — 7
20 Walter Bruce — 16 — 3
21 Derek Dougan 11 — 3
22 Pat Robinson — 9 — 2
23 Danny Trainor 8 — 2
24 David Houston — 0 — 0
25 Tommy Jackson 0 — 0
26 Albert Watson — — —
27 Bob Cambell — — —
28 Daryl Fordyce — — —
29 David McMullan — — — —
30 Jimmy McGeough — — —
31 Robert Garrett — — —
32 William Willie Reid — — — —

gp games played · min minutes played · g goals. All three are career totals across every competition on record, not just the ones played near here.

Minutes were not recorded at all in the ASL, the original NASL or the indoor leagues, so a career spent there shows games and no minutes. Totals are summed from what the record holds — see the coverage note.

Teams from Belfast

team
Crusaders Belfast
Glentoran
Linfield FC

Games played in Belfast

The 25 most recent, of 37 on record.

season team score team sources
2026 Hungary 0 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2025 Luxembourg 0 - 1 Northern Ireland 1
2025 Germany 1 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2025 Northern Ireland 2 - 0 Slovakia 1
2025-2026 Linfield FC 1 - 1 Shelbourne 1
2025 Iceland 0 - 1 Northern Ireland 1
2025 Northern Ireland Women 1 - 0 Romania Women 1
2025 Northern Ireland 1 - 1 Switzerland 1
2024 Belarus 0 - 2 Northern Ireland 1
2024 Bulgaria 0 - 5 Northern Ireland 1
2024 Luxembourg 0 - 2 Northern Ireland 1
2023 Denmark 0 - 2 Northern Ireland 1
2023 Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Slovenia 1
2023 Northern Ireland 3 - 0 San Marino 1
2023 Kazakhstan 1 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2023 Finland 1 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2022 Kosovo 1 - 2 Northern Ireland 1
2022 Cyprus 2 - 2 Northern Ireland 1
2022 Greece 1 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2021 England Women 5 - 0 Northern Ireland Women 1
2021 Italy 0 - 0 Northern Ireland 1
2021 Lithuania 0 - 1 Northern Ireland 1
2021 Northern Ireland 0 - 0 Switzerland 1
2020 Northern Ireland 1 - 1 Romania 1
2019 Northern Ireland 1 - 2 Slovakia 1