Linfield

Linfield Football Club is a professional football club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which plays in the NIFL Premiership – the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. The club was founded in 1886 as Linfield Athletic Club and in 1905 moved into their current home of Windsor Park, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland national team. The club's badge displays Windsor Castle, in reference to the ground's namesake.

Historically, Linfield's main rival has been Glentoran, with the duo known as the Big Two. This rivalry traditionally includes a league derby played on Boxing Day each year, which usually attracts the largest league attendance of the season. However Linfield’s original rivals before 1948 were Belfast Celtic (sister club of Glasgow Celtic) who used to play on Boxing Day every Year. Linfield's average league home attendance is approximately 2,500, the highest in the division and more than double the league's overall average of about 1,000. The club, nicknamed the Blues, are managed by former Northern Ireland international and current all-time NI record goalscorer, David Healy. Healy was appointed on 14 October 2015 to succeed Warren Feeney, who had resigned in order to become assistant manager of Newport County.

Linfield holds several domestic and world records. The club was inaugural winners and one of the eight founding members of the Irish League in 1890, and is one of only three clubs (along with Glentoran and Cliftonville) to have remained in the top division continuously since the league's formation; a joint world record (shared with Scottish club Celtic) for the longest unbroken spell as a member of a national league's top division. Linfield has won 55 league championships to date – more than twice as many titles as any other Northern Irish club, and a joint world record for the most top division league titles won by any club; a record shared with Rangers, who have won 55 Scottish titles. In the 1921–22 season, Linfield completed an unprecedented clean sw

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