2017-18 NIFL Premiership
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Dates | 11 August 2017 – TBC |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Goals scored | 49 (4.08 per match) |
| Biggest home win |
Crusaders 5–0 Warrenpoint Town (15 August 2017) |
| Biggest away win | (19th August 2017) |
| Highest scoring |
Cliftonville 6–3 Ards (12 August 2017) |
| Highest attendance |
1,866 Linfield 2-0 Carrick Rangers (12th August 2017) |
| Lowest attendance |
421 Dungannon Swifts 1-3 Coleraine (12th August 2017) |
| Total attendance | 12,639 |
| Average attendance | 1,053 |
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← 2016–17
2018–19 →
All statistics correct as of 15 August 2017.
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1,866 Linfield 2-0 Carrick Rangers
421 Dungannon Swifts 1-3 Coleraine
The 2017–18 NIFL Premiership (known as the Danske Bank Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the 117th season of the Irish League overall and the fifth as the Northern Ireland Football League. The season began on 11 August 2017 and is scheduled to conclude in May 2018. Linfield are the defending champions from the previous season.
The winner qualifies for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League while the runner-up along with potentially the third-placed team and the play-off winners will qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.
Twelve teams will compete in the 2017–18 NIFL Premiership. Portadown were relegated after finishing bottom of the 2016–17 NIFL Premiership and were replaced by Warrenpoint Town as the winners of the 2016–17 NIFL Championship.
Carrick Rangers finished second from bottom but retained their Premiership place after winning the promotion-relegation play-off against NIFL Championship promotion play-off winners Institute 5–2 on aggregate.
During matches 1–22 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).
During matches 23–33 each team will play every other team for the third time (either at home, or away).
During matches 34–38 each team will play every other team in their half of the table once. As this is the fourth time that teams play each other this season, home sides are chosen so that they will have played each other twice at home and twice away.
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