Northern Ireland national football team
No Pos Player Date of birth ( age ) Caps Goals Club
12 1 GK Michael McGovern ( 1984-07-12 ) 12 July 1984 ( age 35 ) 31 0 Norwich City
1 1 GK Bailey Peacock-Farrell ( 1996-10-29 ) 29 October 1996 ( age 23 ) 14 0 Burnley
23 1 GK Trevor Carson ( 1988-03-05 ) 5 March 1988 ( age 32 ) 5 0 Motherwell
5 2 DF Jonny Evans ( 1988-01-03 ) 3 January 1988 ( age 32 ) 84 4 Leicester City
20 2 DF Craig Cathcart ( 1989-02-06 ) 6 February 1989 ( age 31 ) 50 2 Watford
2 2 DF Conor McLaughlin ( 1991-07-26 ) 26 July 1991 ( age 28 ) 38 1 Sunderland
2 DF Jamal Lewis ( 1998-01-25 ) 25 January 1998 ( age 22 ) 12 0 Norwich City
3 2 DF Michael Smith ( 1988-09-04 ) 4 September 1988 ( age 31 ) 9 1 Heart of Midlothian
4 2 DF Tom Flanagan ( 1991-10-21 ) 21 October 1991 ( age 28 ) 5 0 Sunderland
2 DF Ciaron Brown ( 1998-01-14 ) 14 January 1998 ( age 22 ) 1 0 Livingston
8 3 MF Steven Davis ( Captain ) ( 1985-01-01 ) 1 January 1985 ( age 35 ) 117 12 Rangers
7 3 MF Niall McGinn ( 1987-07-20 ) 20 July 1987 ( age 32 ) 60 4 Aberdeen
14 3 MF Stuart Dallas ( 1991-04-19 ) 19 April 1991 ( age 29 ) 44 3 Leeds United
11 3 MF Shane Ferguson ( 1991-07-12 ) 12 July 1991 ( age 28 ) 42 1 Millwall
17 3 MF Paddy McNair ( 1995-04-27 ) 27 April 1995 ( age 25 ) 34 3 Middlesbrough
6 3 MF George Saville ( 1993-06-01 ) 1 June 1993 ( age 27 ) 21 0 Middlesbrough
18 3 MF Gavin Whyte ( 1996-01-31 ) 31 January 1996 ( age 24 ) 9 1 Cardiff City
3 MF Jordan Jones ( 1994-10-24 ) 24 October 1994 ( age 25 ) 9 0 Rangers
15 3 MF Jordan Thompson ( 1997-01-03 ) 3 January 1997 ( age 23 ) 7 0 Stoke City
19 3 MF Liam Donnelly ( 1996-03-07 ) 7 March 1996 ( age 24 ) 2 0 Motherwell
Players -- Current squad
The following players were called up for the Euro 2020 qualifying play-off game against Bosnia and Herzegovina on 26 March . [ 43 ] Caps and goals updated as of 19 November 2019 , after the match against Germany . .mw-parser-output .nat-fs-player th { background-color : inherit ; border:0 } .mw-parser-output .nat-fs-player td { text-align : center ; border:0 }
The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. From 1882 to 1920, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association (IFA). In 1921, the jurisdiction of the IFA was reduced to Northern Ireland following the secession of clubs in the soon-to-be Irish Free State, although its team remained the national team for all of Ireland until 1950, and used the name Ireland until the 1970s. [n 1] The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) organises the separate Republic of Ireland national football team. Although part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has always had a representative side that plays in major professional tournaments - whether alongside the rest of Ireland pre-1922 or as its own entity - though not in the Olympic Games, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has always recognised United Kingdom representative sides. Northern Ireland has competed in three FIFA World Cups, reaching the quarter-final stage in the 1958 and 1982 tournaments. At UEFA Euro 2016, the team made its first appearance at the European tournament and reached the round of 16.