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Welcome to the task force on Irish association football (including football in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), a descendant project of WikiProject Football. This page contains suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or include yourself as a participant below.

Scope

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This task force aims primarily to establish and organise standards for Irish football-related articles, resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, making all articles related to Irish football easy to find. The project plans to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish football, to form a co-operative effort of contributions amongst Irish football editors and aid the collaboration of editors with an interest in Irish football, as well as to provide an area where contributors interested in Irish football can identify each other and discuss any issues relevant to their area of interest, or where they want to direct their activities.

Goals

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Write and maintain articles on:

  1. an overview of football in Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  2. youth national teams in both countries.
  3. women's national teams in both countries.
  4. all notable football clubs, competitions, players and stadiums in Ireland.
  5. all past seasons in the League of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Football League.
  6. all notable matches and derbies in Irish football.

Improve articles:

  1. to make them comply with standards set up here and on the parent-project.
  2. to eventually develop them into featured articles.

Categorise articles:

  1. to make it easy to find what you and the reader want to.

Participants

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Guidelines

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Welcome! Below are some of the actions you can take to help the task force achieve the aforementioned goals.

Tagging and assessment

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Any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with Irish=yes in their Talk page (literally {{WikiProject Football |Irish=yes}}). This will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.

{{WikiProject Football |Irish=yes}}

Note: Ireland=yes and Irish=y are technically valid but are non-standard inputs.

Article rating

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The WikiProject Football's assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football related articles. Below is a table of Irish football articles listed by quality and importance:

The following is a set of rough guidelines for assessing importance to articles within the scope of the taskforce:

  • Top - Vital to an understanding of Irish football.
  • High - Significant events in Irish football history, vital contributions to Irish football, Irish international record holders, world renowned Irish players or managers, current international team stadia, top level leagues.
  • Mid - Considerable contributions to Irish football, Irish club record holders, Irish international footballers, Irish professional clubs, previous international team stadia.
  • Low - Notable events in Irish football history, minor contributions to Irish football, Irish professional footballers, Irish non-league or amateur clubs that have played at a national level.

The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:

100% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

99.2% known importance (Note that articles inherit importance from the main football project by default, though this can be changed to a task force-specific rating)

   

Category Trees

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Below is a list of articles currently assigned to the taskforce:

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Association footballers from the Republic of Ireland by county
Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Association footballers from Northern Ireland by county


Showcase articles

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The below articles demonstrate the standards that this task force strives to achieve. They are considered our showcase articles, the "best-in-class" items that fall under our remit to support.

Derry City F.C. (peer review and featured article candidacy), an article supported by the Irish football task force, once reached featured article (FA) status.

Featured and Good content
Article Type Peer Review FAC / FLC
List of international goals scored by David Healy Featured List FLC
Derry City F.C. Former Featured Article Peer reviewed FAC 1st, 2nd, FAR
Linfield F.C. Good Article FAC 1st
Shamrock Rovers F.C. Good Article
Dundalk F.C. Good Article
Sunday football in Northern Ireland Good Article
The Oval (Belfast) Good Article
Michael Ingham (footballer) Good Article
Shay Given Good Article
Jack Charlton Good Article
Liam Miller Good Article
Denise O'Sullivan Good Article

Article improvement drive

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A fortnightly collaboration to improve an Irish football-related article to featured article standard.

Immediate tasks

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As of January 2025,

  1. Ensure that the 2025 League of Ireland Premier Division article is kept up to date.
  2. Create an article on every League of Ireland player.
  3. Ensure that League of Ireland club articles are kept up to date.

New articles

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Add newly-created articles relating to Irish football in this section. Once identified, members can help to develop and improve these new articles. The ten newest articles are listed below:

  1. Sam Torrans (created April 11, 2026)
  2. Lucan United F.C. (created February 6, 2026)
  3. Killarney Celtic F.C. (created December 19, 2025)
  4. Skerries Town F.C. (created December 11, 2025)
  5. Dean McMenamy (created November 26, 2025)
  6. Fairview Rangers A.F.C. (created September 17, 2025)
  7. FAI National League (created January 3, 2025)
  8. Villa F.C. (created May 30, 2024)
  9. Leeside A.F.C (created April 27, 2024)
  10. Raffaele Cretaro (created June 14, 2023)


Requested articles

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Add articles that you would like to create or see created in the future below:

Articles in need of improvement

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Add articles you feel are in need of serious and immediate improvement below:


Categories

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Important articles on Irish football

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General

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Associations

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National teams

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Competitions

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Historical

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Manual of Style (conventions)

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See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

The following manuals of style contain guidelines and help pages to assist you in writing articles and making contributions to the taskforce.

As a WikiProject for Irish association football in both Northern Ireland the Republic of Ireland, we aim to adhere to the manual of style on Ireland-related articles. This is a set of agreed rules, formed by consensus, on layout and terminology (such as the use of Derry and Londonderry) to ensure clarity and uniformity across articles. Please familiarise yourself with MOS:IRELAND and avoid intentionally straying from this style.

Articles

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Categories

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Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates

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Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:

The following templates shall be used specifically for this project:

Banner to be added to talk pages relevant to the project:
{{Football|Irish=yes}}
WikiProject iconFootball: Ireland
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Football, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Association football on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FootballWikipedia:WikiProject FootballTemplate:WikiProject Footballfootball
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the Irish football task force.
Userbox:
{{User WikiProject Irish Football}}
This user is a participant in the Irish football task force.

Notability

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How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:

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A collection of useful external links:

Assessment department

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The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football related articles.

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