Football tournament season
1898–99Irish Cup Tournament details Country Ireland Date 29 October 1898 – 18 March 1899 Teams 33 Defending champions Linfield Final positions Champions Linfield (6th win)Runners-up Glentoran Tournament statistics Matches played 33 Goals scored 130 (3.94 per match)
The1898–99 Irish Cup was the 19th edition of theIrish Cup , the premier knock-out cup competition inIrish football .
Linfield won the tournament for the 6th time and 2nd year in a row, defeatingGlentoran 1–0 in the final.[ 1] [ 2]
Teams from Belfast, Dublin and the north west of Ireland were givenbyes in the first two rounds while several Army teams were selected to play in the first two rounds.[ 3]
Team 1 Score Team 2 8th Hussars 1–5 Royal Fusiliers South Staffordshire Regiment w/o Hampshire Regiment Cheshire Regiment 1–2 King's Own Rifles Connaught Rangers 1–0 Oxfordshire Regiment Inniskilling Fusiliers 3–1 Inniskilling Dragoons Royal Irish Rifles bye
Team 1 Score Team 2 King's Own Rifles w/o Royal Irish Rifles
Team 1 Score Team 2 East Yorkshire Regiment 1–1 Rifle Brigade Derry Hibernians 1–2 North End
Team 1 Score Team 2 East Yorkshire Regiment 2–1 Rifle Brigade
1 A replay was ordered after a protest.1 Another replay was ordered after a protest.1 After a pitch incursion the match was suspended. Celtic refused to return and the tie was awarded to Glentoran.2 The match ended early after Glentoran players refused to continue claiming that a Linfield player had punched a shot clear from the goal-line and no penalty had been awarded.
1898–99 in Irish football
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