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  "id": "gb-nir-football-leagues",
  "name": "Northern Ireland — Football Leagues",
  "title": "Northern Ireland — Football Leagues",
  "description": "Domestic football (soccer) leagues and cup competitions of Northern Ireland. Each record describes one competition with its short code, primary name, alternate names (including localized spellings and historical names), active year span where given, and a coarse tier classification (league level, national cup, league cup, super cup, other). Sourced from openfootball/leagues — a CC0 community registry.",
  "category": "sports",
  "source": "https://github.com/openfootball/leagues",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/openfootball/leagues",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 5,
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      "key": "aliases",
      "label": "Aliases",
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    },
    {
      "key": "year_span",
      "label": "Year Span",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "tier_kind",
      "label": "Tier Kind",
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    },
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      "code": "1",
      "name": "Premiership",
      "aliases": "NIFL Premiership, Nordirland Premiership [de], Premier League, nirl.1",
      "year_span": "",
      "tier_kind": "league",
      "tier_level": 1
    },
    {
      "code": "2",
      "name": "Championship",
      "aliases": "NIFL Championship, Nordirland IFA Championship [de], nirl.2",
      "year_span": "",
      "tier_kind": "league",
      "tier_level": 2
    },
    {
      "code": "cup",
      "name": "Irish Cup",
      "aliases": "Irish Football Association Challenge Cup, Nordirland $$JJB Sports$$ Irish Cup [de], nirl.cup",
      "year_span": "",
      "tier_kind": "national-cup",
      "tier_level": ""
    },
    {
      "code": "cup.l",
      "name": "League Cup",
      "aliases": "Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland Football League Cup, nirl.lc",
      "year_span": "",
      "tier_kind": "league-cup",
      "tier_level": ""
    },
    {
      "code": "super",
      "name": "NIFL Charity Shield",
      "aliases": "nir.chs",
      "year_span": "",
      "tier_kind": "super-cup",
      "tier_level": ""
    }
  ],
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    "title": "Northern Ireland — Football Leagues - Free Download",
    "description": "Domestic football (soccer) leagues and cup competitions of Northern Ireland. Each record describes one competition with its short code, primary name, alternate names (including localized spellings and historical names), active year span where given, and a coarse tier classification (league level, national cup, league cup, super cup, other). Sourced from openfootball/leagues — a CC0 community registry. Contains 5 records. Download in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.",
    "seo_title": "Northern Ireland — Football Leagues | ListBase",
    "seo_description": "Download Northern Ireland — Football Leagues — 5 records. Available in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.",
    "key_takeaways": [
      "Contains 5 records / 6 fields",
      "Available for free download in Excel, CSV, and PDF formats",
      "Data sourced from: https://github.com/openfootball/leagues"
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}