2017–18 Irish Cup
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The 2017–18 Irish Cup (known as the Tennent's Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) was the 138th edition of the Irish Cup, the premier knock-out cup competition in Northern Irish football since its introduction in 1881. The competition began on 19 August 2017 and concluded with the final at Windsor Park in May 2018.
Tournament details | |
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Country | Northern Ireland |
Teams | 130 |
Defending champions | Linfield |
Final positions | |
Champions | Coleraine (6th win) |
Runner-up | Cliftonville |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 125 |
Goals scored | 577 (4.62 per match) |
Linfield are the defending champions, having defeated Coleraine 3–0 in the 2017 final.
A new system for penalty shoot-outs will be trialled as sanctioned by the International Football Association Board to test a different sequence of taking penalties. Known as "ABBA", it mirrors the serving sequence in a tennis tie-break i.e. team A takes the first penalty, team B takes the second penalty, team B takes the third penalty, etc.[1][2]