Nickname(s) Green & White Army, Norn Iron
Association Irish Football Association
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Most caps Pat Jennings (119)
Top scorer David Healy (33)
Home stadium Windsor Park
FIFA code NIR
FIFA ranking 32
Highest FIFA ranking 27 (August 2007)
Lowest FIFA ranking 124 (March 2004)
Elo ranking 67
Highest Elo ranking 4 or 15[1] (1882-5 or May 1986)
Lowest Elo ranking 97 (February 2004)
The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international football, it had previously represented the whole of Ireland as the Ireland national football team, and is thus the fourth oldest international football team in the world. In such events, the constituent countries of the United Kingdom compete separately, though not in the Olympic Games. Before 1921, all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom and was represented by a single Ireland team, of which Northern Ireland is the continuation. The independent Republic of Ireland now has its own team.