Linfield FC
Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue,
Belfast
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Linfield F.C. (full name Linfield Football & Athletic Club), is a Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team. Linfield play in the IFA Premiership (still popularly referred to as the Irish League) the second-oldest national league in the world after the Football League in England.
Linfield have won the League title a record 49 times, were the first champions of the League in the 1890–1891 season and are one of four clubs, the others being Glentoran, Cliftonville and Lisburn Distillery, who have retained membership of the League since its formation in 1890. Linfield's main rivals are Glentoran who play at the Oval in East Belfast.
History
Founded in March 1886 in Sandy Row, south Belfast by workers of the Linfield Spinning Mill, the team was originally known as the Linfield Athletic Club and played on ground at the back of the mill known as 'The Meadow'.
Linfield moved to Ulsterville Avenue in 1889. After the purchase of a piece of land known as the 'bog meadows' just off lower Windsor Avenue in 1904, they settled in what has become the permanent home of Linfield FC., Windsor Park. The first game at Windsor was played against Glentoran, the other half of Belfast's "Big Two," on September 2, 1905 – though Belfast Celtic were the club's main rivals at the time.