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League table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Glentoran (C, Q)	38	26	6	6	74	37	+37	84	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Linfield (Q)	38	24	11	3	73	28	+45	83	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round^[b]
3	Larne (Q)	38	20	9	9	64	38	+26	69
4	Cliftonville (Q)	38	20	9	9	59	39	+20	69	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs^[c]
5	Crusaders (Q, O)	38	17	8	13	51	37	+14	59
6	Coleraine (Q)	38	16	10	12	62	39	+23	58

7	Glenavon (Q)	38	15	9	14	53	46	+7	54	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs^[c]
8	Ballymena United	38	16	3	19	44	57	−13	51
9	Carrick Rangers	38	8	10	20	33	61	−28	34
10	Warrenpoint Town	38	8	7	23	41	74	−33	31
11	Dungannon Swifts (Q, O)	38	8	5	25	44	91	−47	29	Qualification for the NIFL Premiership play-off
12	Portadown (R)	38	2	9	27	28	79	−51	15	Relegation to the NIFL Championship

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Drawing of lots^[1]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Teams will play each other three times (33 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.
^ The 2021–22 Irish Cup winners will also enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
^ ^a ^b One of the five play-off places will be vacated if the 2021–22 Irish Cup winners finish 7th or higher, as the cup winners (or the 3rd-placed team if the cup winners also finish 1st or 2nd) will enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round directly.

Results[edit]

Matches 1–22[edit]

v t e Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	CLF	COL	CRU	DUN	GLA	GLT	LAR	LIN	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	4–3	1–1	1–2	0–3	2–3	4–0	1–0
Carrick Rangers	2–1	—	1–2	0–3	0–2	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–0	1–0
Cliftonville	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	1–0
Coleraine	3–0	3–0	0–0	—	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	3–1	1–2	2–0	2–0
Crusaders	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	—	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–2
Dungannon Swifts	0–2	2–0	1–3	0–5	0–2	—	0–2	2–3	2–4	1–6	4–2	2–2
Glenavon	0–1	0–4	0–2	1–0	1–0	4–2	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1
Glentoran	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–3	3–0	2–0	—	2–3	0–3	2–2	2–1
Larne	3–0	0–0	1–1	4–2	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–1	—	1–1	4–0	3–0
Linfield	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	—	3–1	1–1
Portadown	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–3	—	1–1
Warrenpoint Town	2–1	3–0	2–4	2–2	2–4	1–2	1–6	0–3	0–3	0–3	2–3	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 23–33[edit]

v t e Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	CLF	COL	CRU	DUN	GLA	GLT	LAR	LIN	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	—	2–2	—	2–0	2–1	0–2	—	2–1	—	—	—
Carrick Rangers	3–0	—	—	0–0	—	—	—	0–3	0–0	—	3–1	1–2
Cliftonville	—	2–0	—	3–2	1–1	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	1–2
Coleraine	1–1	—	—	—	—	3–0	1–1	—	0–1	3–0	—	2–0
Crusaders	—	3–1	—	2–1	—	—	2–0	1–2	—	—	2–0	—
Dungannon Swifts	—	3–2	1–2	—	2–2	—	—	0–3	0–1	—	3–1	—
Glenavon	—	1–1	0–1	—	—	3–1	—	1–2	—	0–3	—	—
Glentoran	4–0	—	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	2–0	3–1	1–0
Larne	—	—	0–1	—	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	—	0–1	—	3–0
Linfield	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	1–1	4–0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Portadown	0–1	—	0–3	1–2	—	—	0–1	—	2–2	0–0	—	—
Warrenpoint Town	1–2	—	—	—	0–1	2–1	0–3	—	—	0–3	0–1	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 34–38[edit]

Section A[edit]

v t e Home \ Away	CLF	COL	CRU	GLT	LAR	LIN
Cliftonville	—	2–3	1–1	1–2	—	—
Coleraine	—	—	3–1	—	—	1–2
Crusaders	a	—	—	0–3	0–2	1–2
Glentoran	—	1–2	—	—	2–2	a
Larne	0–2	3–2	—	—	—	—
Linfield	3–0	—	—	3–1	1–1	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Section B[edit]

v t e Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	DUN	GLA	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	—	3–1	—	—	2–3
Carrick Rangers	0–2	—	1–1	—	1–0	—
Dungannon Swifts	—	—	—	0–3	1–1	1–1
Glenavon	3–1	2–2	—	—	—	—
Portadown	0–1	—	—	1–3	—	0–2
Warrenpoint Town	—	3–0	—	1–3	—	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs[edit]

UEFA Europa Conference League play-offs[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

11 May 2022

Semi-final

Cliftonville	1–0	Glenavon
Hale 4' (p)

Solitude, Belfast

11 May 2022

Semi-final

Crusaders	3–2	Coleraine
Clarke 25' McMurray 28', 29'		McLaughlin 1' Allen 80'

Seaview, Belfast

Final[edit]

14 May 2022

Final

Crusaders	3–0	Cliftonville
Heatley 2' Owens 14' (p) Kennedy 59' (p)

Seaview, Belfast

NIFL Premiership play-off[edit]

First leg[edit]

1 June 2022

Ards	0–0	Dungannon Swifts

Clandeboye Park, Bangor

Second leg[edit]

4 June 2022

Dungannon Swifts	1–0	Ards

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

Dungannon Swifts win 1–0 on aggregate.

^ "NIFL Premiership Rules 2020–21" (PDF). NIFL. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[1] Teams will play each other three times (33 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

[table_note_res_ECL1Q0.029145976076436-2] The 2021–22 Irish Cup winners will also enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round

[table_note_res_ECLPO0.029145976076436-3] One of the five play-off places will be vacated if the 2021–22 Irish Cup winners finish 7th or higher, as the cup winners (or the 3rd-placed team if the cup winners also finish 1st or 2nd) will enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round directly.

[4] "NIFL Premiership Rules 2020–21" (PDF). NIFL. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

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