Northern Ireland. Ranked 29th. A perfect season for Glentoran, but not an easy one. They battled hard with Linfield in the championship. In it, 4 teams were much stronger than the rest of the league and one – Distlillery – was hopelessly weak, finishing last with 11 points.
Ballymena United finished 7th with 36 points.
Larne finished 5th with 40 points.
Newry Town – 4th with 50 points.
Coleraine – 3rd with 52 points.
Linfield and Glentoran were entangled in battle of their own for the title – Linfield lost it and took 2nd place with 60 points.
Glentoran clinched the title with 62 points from 19 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses. 48-15 goal-difference.
But they also reached the Cup final, where Glenavon opposed them – in perfect from, Glentoran scored the only goal and won the Cup 1-0.
A double for Glentoran, which was only the second double in their history and they had to way more than half of a century for it, winning their first double in the long gone 1920-21 season. It was also their 18th title and 14th Cup.