IFA Premiership

Carling Premiership

Matchday

Fixture and Results Matchday 1

Ballymena

0 : 1

Clifton'

goals: Boyce

Coleraine

2 : 2

Linfield

goals: Boyce, Patterson, Mulgrew, Carvill red car: Boyce

Crusaders

3 : 1

Portadown

goals: Donnelly (penalty), Mouncey, Rainey

Glenavon

1 : 1

Newry

goals: Costello, Feeney

Institute

0 : 1

Dungannon

goals: McCafferty (penalty) red car: Ward, Friars

Lisburn D

0 : 4

Glentoran

goals: Leeman (penalty + 1), Hamilton, Taylor