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Message: [QUOTE="meyers7, post: 2408874, member: 343"] The [B]Ireland national football team[/B] represented Ireland at association football from 1882 until 1950. It was organised by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Football_Association']Irish Football Association[/URL] (IFA), and is the fourth oldest international team in the world. After the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland']partition of Ireland[/URL] in the 1920s, although the IFA's administration of club football was restricted to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland']Northern Ireland[/URL], the IFA national team continued to select players from the whole of Ireland until 1950, and did not adopt the name "Northern Ireland" until 1954 in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA']FIFA[/URL] competition, and the 1970s in the British Home Championship.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_football_team_%281882%E2%80%931950%29#cite_note-6'][n 1][/URL] The IFA's modern [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team']Northern Ireland national football team[/URL] is recognised[[I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions']by whom?[/URL][/I]] as the successor to the original Ireland national team. Since 1924, a separate Republic of Ireland [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_team']international team[/URL], organised by the separate [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Association_of_Ireland']Football Association of Ireland[/URL] (.A.I.), had briefly fielded a team called Ireland, and this team now represents the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland']Republic of Ireland[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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