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League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Glentoran (C, Q)	38	26	6	6	74	37	+37	84	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Linfield (Q)	38	24	11	3	73	28	+45	83	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round^[b]
3	Larne (Q)	38	20	9	9	64	38	+26	69
4	Cliftonville (Q)	38	20	9	9	59	39	+20	69	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs^[c]
5	Crusaders (Q, O)	38	17	8	13	51	37	+14	59
6	Coleraine (Q)	38	16	10	12	62	39	+23	58

7	Glenavon (Q)	38	15	9	14	53	46	+7	54	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs^[c]
8	Ballymena United	38	16	3	19	44	57	−13	51
9	Carrick Rangers	38	8	10	20	33	61	−28	34
10	Warrenpoint Town	38	8	7	23	41	74	−33	31
11	Dungannon Swifts (Q, O)	38	8	5	25	44	91	−47	29	Qualification for the NIFL Premiership play-off
12	Portadown (R)	38	2	9	27	28	79	−51	15	Relegation to the NIFL Championship

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Drawing of lots^[1]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Teams will play each other three times (33 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.
^ The 2021–22 Irish Cup winners will also enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
^ ^a ^b One of the five play-off places will be vacated if the 2021–22 Irish Cup winners finish 7th or higher, as the cup winners (or the 3rd-placed team if the cup winners also finish 1st or 2nd) will enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round directly.

Results

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	CLF	COL	CRU	DUN	GLA	GLT	LAR	LIN	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	4–3	1–1	1–2	0–3	2–3	4–0	1–0
Carrick Rangers	2–1	—	1–2	0–3	0–2	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–0	1–0
Cliftonville	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	1–0
Coleraine	3–0	3–0	0–0	—	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	3–1	1–2	2–0	2–0
Crusaders	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	—	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–2
Dungannon Swifts	0–2	2–0	1–3	0–5	0–2	—	0–2	2–3	2–4	1–6	4–2	2–2
Glenavon	0–1	0–4	0–2	1–0	1–0	4–2	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1
Glentoran	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–3	3–0	2–0	—	2–3	0–3	2–2	2–1
Larne	3–0	0–0	1–1	4–2	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–1	—	1–1	4–0	3–0
Linfield	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	—	3–1	1–1
Portadown	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–3	—	1–1
Warrenpoint Town	2–1	3–0	2–4	2–2	2–4	1–2	1–6	0–3	0–3	0–3	2–3	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	CLF	COL	CRU	DUN	GLA	GLT	LAR	LIN	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	—	2–2	—	2–0	2–1	0–2	—	2–1	—	—	—
Carrick Rangers	3–0	—	—	0–0	—	—	—	0–3	0–0	—	3–1	1–2
Cliftonville	—	2–0	—	3–2	1–1	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	1–2
Coleraine	1–1	—	—	—	—	3–0	1–1	—	0–1	3–0	—	2–0
Crusaders	—	3–1	—	2–1	—	—	2–0	1–2	—	—	2–0	—
Dungannon Swifts	—	3–2	1–2	—	2–2	—	—	0–3	0–1	—	3–1	—
Glenavon	—	1–1	0–1	—	—	3–1	—	1–2	—	0–3	—	—
Glentoran	4–0	—	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	2–0	3–1	1–0
Larne	—	—	0–1	—	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	—	0–1	—	3–0
Linfield	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	1–1	4–0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Portadown	0–1	—	0–3	1–2	—	—	0–1	—	2–2	0–0	—	—
Warrenpoint Town	1–2	—	—	—	0–1	2–1	0–3	—	—	0–3	0–1	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 34–38

Section A

Home \ Away	CLF	COL	CRU	GLT	LAR	LIN
Cliftonville	—	2–3	1–1	1–2	—	—
Coleraine	—	—	3–1	—	—	1–2
Crusaders	a	—	—	0–3	0–2	1–2
Glentoran	—	1–2	—	—	2–2	a
Larne	0–2	3–2	—	—	—	—
Linfield	3–0	—	—	3–1	1–1	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Section B

Home \ Away	BYM	CRK	DUN	GLA	POR	WPT
Ballymena United	—	—	3–1	—	—	2–3
Carrick Rangers	0–2	—	1–1	—	1–0	—
Dungannon Swifts	—	—	—	0–3	1–1	1–1
Glenavon	3–1	2–2	—	—	—	—
Portadown	0–1	—	—	1–3	—	0–2
Warrenpoint Town	—	3–0	—	1–3	—	—

Source: Northern Ireland Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs

UEFA Europa Conference League play-offs

Semi-finals

11 May 2022

Semi-final

Cliftonville	1–0	Glenavon
Hale 4' (p)

Solitude, Belfast

11 May 2022

Semi-final

Crusaders	3–2	Coleraine
Clarke 25' McMurray 28', 29'		McLaughlin 1' Allen 80'

Seaview, Belfast

Final

14 May 2022

Final

Crusaders	3–0	Cliftonville
Heatley 2' Owens 14' (p) Kennedy 59' (p)

Seaview, Belfast

NIFL Premiership play-off

First leg

1 June 2022

Ards	0–0	Dungannon Swifts

Clandeboye Park, Bangor

Second leg

4 June 2022

Dungannon Swifts	1–0	Ards

Stangmore Park, Dungannon

Dungannon Swifts win 1–0 on aggregate.

^ "NIFL Premiership Rules 2020–21" (PDF). NIFL. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[1] Teams will play each other three times (33 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

[table_note_res_ECL1Q0.66634760734921-2] The 2021–22 Irish Cup winners will also enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round

[table_note_res_ECLPO0.66634760734921-3] One of the five play-off places will be vacated if the 2021–22 Irish Cup winners finish 7th or higher, as the cup winners (or the 3rd-placed team if the cup winners also finish 1st or 2nd) will enter the Europa Conference League first qualifying round directly.

[4] "NIFL Premiership Rules 2020–21" (PDF). NIFL. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

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