Blaxnit Cup

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The Blaxnit Cup, is a defunct club football competition which featured teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland, in a similar format to the later Setanta Cup. It was inaugurated in 1967 as a cross-border competition between clubs from the League of Ireland from the Republic of Ireland and the Irish League from Northern Ireland and ran until 1974.^[1] The competition was sponsored by Blaxnit, a sock and hosiery manufacturer based in Newtownards.

The competition featured four teams from each league. The Blaxnit Cup was the third cross-border competition. Previous competitions included the Dublin and Belfast Intercity Cup 1941/42-1948/49 and the North-South Cup 1961/62-1962/63.

After the demise of the Blaxnit Cup teams from both sides of the border continued to compete in the Texaco Cup 1973/74-1974/75, the Tyler Cup 1978-1980 and after 2005 in the Setanta Sports Cup.

The tournament suffered from lack of interest and security concerns.

List of finals

Finals played over two legs except 1973–74.

Season	Winner (number of titles)	Score	Runner-up	Venue
1967–68	Template:Flagicon Shamrock Rovers (1)	2 – 0	Template:Flagicon Crusaders	Windsor Park, Belfast
1967–68	Template:Flagicon Shamrock Rovers (1)	1 – 2 (3 – 2 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Crusaders	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1968–69	Template:Flagicon Coleraine (1)	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon Shamrock Rovers	Windsor Park, Belfast
1968–69	Template:Flagicon Coleraine (1)	2 – 2 (4 – 3 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Shamrock Rovers	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1969–70	Template:Flagicon Coleraine (2)	0 – 1	Template:Flagicon Sligo Rovers	Windsor Park, Belfast
1969–70	Template:Flagicon Coleraine (2)	4 – 1 (4 – 2 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Sligo Rovers	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1970–71	Template:Flagicon Linfield (1)	1 – 1	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians	Windsor Park, Belfast
1970–71	Template:Flagicon Linfield (1)	2 – 1 (3 – 2 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1971–72	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians (1)	3 – 2	Template:Flagicon Coleraine	Flower Lodge, Cork
1971–72	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians (1)	2 – 1 (5 – 3 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Coleraine	The Showgrounds, Coleraine
1972–73	Template:Flagicon Glentoran (1)	1 – 1	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians	Flower Lodge, Cork
1972–73	Template:Flagicon Glentoran (1)	5 – 1 (6 – 2 agg.)	Template:Flagicon Cork Hibernians	Castlereagh Park, Newtownards
1973–74	Template:Flagicon Ards (1)	3 – 1	Template:Flagicon Ballymena United	Windsor Park, Belfast

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