| Competition: | NIFL Premiership |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| Continentalcup1: | UEFA Champions League |
| Continentalcup2: | UEFA Conference League |
| Prevseason: | 2023–24 |
| Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
The 2024–25 NIFL Premiership (known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the 17th season of the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of league football in Northern Ireland and the 124th season of Irish League football overall.
The league consisted of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the NIFL Championship. Larne entered the season as defending champions (for the second consecutive season).
Portadown were promoted as champions of the 2023–24 NIFL Championship (returning to the top-flight after a one-season absence), replacing the 2023–24 NIFL Premiership bottom-placed team Newry City.
| Club | Stadium | Location | Capacity[1] [2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymena United | 3,824 (all seated) | |||
| Carrick Rangers | 2,100 (380 seated) | |||
| Cliftonville | 3,054 (all seated) | |||
| Coleraine | 4,843 (1,607 seated) | |||
| Crusaders | 3,208 (all seated) | |||
| Dungannon Swifts | 2,000 (300 seated) | |||
| Glenavon | 3,302 (all seated) | |||
| Glentoran | 6,054 (3,991 seated) | |||
| Larne | 2,732 (1,632 seated) | |||
| Linfield | 18,434 (all seated) | |||
| Loughgall | 3,000 | |||
| Portadown | 3,940 (2,765 seated) |
For matches 1–22, each team plays every other team twice (home and away). For matches 23–33, each team plays every other team for the third time (either at home or away).
For the final five matches, the table splits into two halves, with the top six teams forming Section A and the bottom six teams forming Section B. Each team plays every other team in their respective section once. The fixtures are reversed from those played during rounds 23–33, ensuring that teams have played every other team in their respective section twice at home and twice away overall throughout the season.
Clubs placed 3rd–7th compete for the second and final place in the 2025–26 Conference League first qualifying round. The play-offs are one-off matches, with the higher-ranked teams given home advantage and extra time and penalties used to determine the winner if necessary. If the 2024–25 Irish Cup winners finish in the top three, the third-placed team will qualify automatically for the Conference League spot and the spot will be vacated. If the Irish Cup winners finish in between fourth and seventh, that spot will be vacated.
The eleventh-placed club will face the second-placed club from the 2024–25 NIFL Championship in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the following season's Premiership.