1971–72 County Antrim Shield

Football tournament season

1971–72 County Antrim Shield
Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland
Teams	12
Defending champions	Glentoran
Final positions
Champions	Ards (2nd win)
Runner-up	Crusaders
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	49 (3.27 per match)
← 1970–71 1972–73 →

The 1971–72 County Antrim Shield was the 83rd edition of the County Antrim Shield, a cup competition in Northern Irish football.

Ards won the tournament for the 2nd time, defeating Crusaders 5–4 on penalties after the two-legged final finished in a 3–3 draw on aggregate.

For this season and the following season only, the semi-finals and final were played as two legged matches.

Results

First round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bangor	1–1	Dundela
Cliftonville	1–3	Chimney Corner
Glentoran	3–0	Linfield Swifts
Linfield	2–3	Larne
Ards	bye
Ballymena United	bye
Crusaders	bye
Distillery	bye

Replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bangor	1–2	Dundela

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ards	1–0	Glentoran
Ballymena United	2–0	Chimney Corner
Distillery	4–5	Crusaders
Larne	2–0	Dundela

Semi-finals

Teams that were at home in the first leg listed on the left.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ballymena United	1–3	Ards	0–2	1–1
Larne	3–5	Crusaders	3–1	0–4

Final

8 May 1972

Ards	3–0	Crusaders
McCoy 37' McCaughtry 71' Patterson 82'	Report

Castlereagh Park, Newtownards 11 May 1972

Crusaders	3–0 (a.e.t.)	Ards
Finney 66' McQuillan 86' Beckett 90'	Report
Penalties
Finney McQuillan Calder Beckett Woods	4–5	McAvoy Patterson McCoy Humphries Nixon

Seaview, BelfastReferee: Sam Patterson (Belfast)

References

"Irish League Archive, County Antrim Shield". Irish League Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
"Crues have it all to do!". Belfast Telegraph. 9 May 1972. p. 17.
""On the spot" agony of man who missed". Belfast Telegraph. 12 May 1972. p. 22.
"County Antrim Shield Results". Irish League Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2023.

External links

Northern Ireland - List of County Antrim Shield Winners

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Domestic cups	Irish Cup Gold Cup City Cup Ulster Cup County Antrim Shield
All-Ireland competitions	Blaxnit Cup
Other competitions	Texaco Cup
European competitions	European Cup UEFA Cup European Cup Winners' Cup
Related to national team	British Home Championship UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying (Group 4)

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