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North West Senior Cup (football)

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7057311 ↗
Source-derived summary

The North West Senior Cup or North West Cup is a senior football competition in Northern Ireland run by the North West Football Association. Senior and intermediate teams from the North West FA's jurisdiction (which covers County Londonderry and parts of County Tyrone), are entitled to enter. It originated as the County Londonderry F.A. Cup in 1886–87 but became the North West Cup in 1892.

List of finals

Performance by club

‡ Including 5 as St Columb's Hall Celtic.

See also

County Antrim Shield

Mid-Ulster Cup

Craig Memorial Cup

Sources

Northern Ireland Soccer Yearbook 2007/2008 (Ed. Malcolm Brodie)

Ulster Football & Cycle Annual 1909/10

George Glass, The Men from Scroggy.

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“North West Senior Cup (football)” enters the record as football tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what North, West and Senior can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1892, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around North, West and Senior.
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This entry incorporates text from “North West Senior Cup (football)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.