The City Cup is a now-defunct football cup competition which involved teams from Northern Ireland (and prior to 1921, teams from Ireland). The tournament ran from 1894 and ceased to exist in 1976. The physical trophy the teams played for was called the Dunville Cup and this trophy is now presented to the winners of the Northern Ireland Football League Cup, which began in 1987. History A cup tournament consisting solely of Belfast clubs had been mooted as early as 1892, although it was not until two years later that the competition was organised. While the City Cup began as a competition for Belfast clubs only, from 1905 to 1911 Dublin-based club Shelbourne also participated. In the 1911–12 season, all eight Irish League clubs participated (Derry Celtic and Glenavon joining the five Belfast teams and Shelbourne). In the 1912–13 season, when the League expanded to ten clubs, only seven participated (the five Belfast teams plus Glenavon and Shelbourne. From 1913 until its demise in 1976, all clubs who were members of the Irish League competed for the City Cup (excluding the war years). During 1915 to 1919, the City Cup was known as the Belfast City Cup and reverted to being a Belfast-only competition and is not recognised as an "official" competition for this period but as a wartime competition; during 1940 to 1947, it was not played at all. Format The format for the City Cup varied throughout its history, but most commonly it was organised on a league basis, by which each participating club played each other and the team with the most points won the cup. The format over the years was as follows: List of winners 1894–95 Linfield 1895–96 Linfield 1896–97 Glentoran 1897–98 Linfield 1898–99 Glentoran 1899–1900 Linfield 1900–01 Linfield 1901–02 Linfield 1902–03 Linfield 1903–04 Linfield 1904–05 Distillery 1905–06 Belfast Celtic 1906–07 Belfast Celtic 1907–08 Linfield 1908–09 Shelbourne 1909–10 Linfield 1910–11 Glentoran 1911–12 Glentoran 1912–13 Distillery 1913–14 Glentoran 1914–15 Glentoran 1919–20 Linfield 1920–21 Glenavon 1921–22 Linfield 1922–23 Queen’s Island 1923–24 Queen’s Island 1924–25 Queen’s Island 1925–26 Belfast Celtic 1926–27 Linfield 1927–28 Belfast Celtic 1928–29 Linfield 1929–30 Belfast Celtic 1930–31 Belfast Celtic 1931–32 Glentoran 1932–33 Belfast Celtic 1933–34 Distillery 1934–35 Derry City 1935–36 Linfield 1936–37 Derry City 1937–38 Linfield 1938–39 Portadown 1939–40 Belfast Celtic 1947–48 Belfast Celtic 1948–49 Belfast Celtic 1949–50 Linfield 1950–51 Glentoran 1951–52 Linfield 1952–53 Glentoran 1953–54 Coleraine 1954–55 Glenavon 1955–56 Glenavon 1956–57 Glentoran 1957–58