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Cup Final Appearances

Irish Cup

Season				Venue	Att.
1926/27	Ards McGee 2 McIlreavey	3-2	Cliftonville Mortished Hughes	The Oval
1951/52	Ards Thompson	1-0	Glentoran	Windsor Park	20 000
1959/60	Linfield Ferguson 2 Milburn 2 Gough	5-1	Ards Welsh	The Oval	20 000
1968/69	Ards	0-0	Distillery	Windsor Park	17 000
Replay	Ards McAvoy 4	4-2	Distillery McCaffrey Conlon
1973/74	Ards Guy McAvoy	2-1	Ballymena Utd Sloan	Windsor Park	7 000
1992/93	Bangor Glendinning	1-1	Ards McCourt	Windsor Park	8 500
Replay	Bangor Glendinning	1-1	Ards Erskine	Windsor Park	6 000
2nd Replay	Bangor Byrne	1-0	Ards	Windsor Park	5 000

City Cup

1971/72

Ballymena
Averill

1-0

Ards

The Oval

League Cup

1990/91	Glentoran McCartney 2	2-0	Ards	Windsor Park	4 000
1994/95	Ards	0-0	Cliftonville	Windsor Park	4 500
Penalties	Mooney Erskine	2-0

Gold Cup

1928/29	Linfield Houston Moorhead Somerset	3-1	Ards Barrett	Solitude
1953/54	Ards Walker Eastham	2-1	Distillery Johnston	Seaview	6 000
1967/68	Linfield Wood Shields 2	3-2	Ards McAvoy Mowat	The Oval	12 000
1971/72	Portadown	0-0	Ards	Mourneview Pk
Replay	Portadown Fleming Magowan	2-1	Ards McAvoy	Mourneview Pk
1973/74	Ards Guy 2 McAteer Cathcart	4-1	Bangor Reid	The Oval	8 000

Ulster Cup

1948/49	Linfield Simpson 3	3-0	Ards	Solitude
1973/74	Ards ahead of Linfield on league basis
1992/93	Linfield Campbell Johnston	2-0	Ards	The Oval	5 000
1998/99	Ards runners-up to Distillery on league basis

County Antrim Shield

1927/28	Linfield McCracken	1-1	Ards Flynn	The Oval
Replay	Linfield Somerset Bambrick 2 McCracken	4-2	Ards Jackson McGee	The Oval
1933/34	Linfield Caiels 2 MacKay 2 Bambrick 3	7-1	Ards Gamble	Grosvenor Park
1955/56	Ards Walker Gildea 2 Munroe	4-1	Linfield Dickson	The Oval	9 000
1969/70	Bangor Gregg	1-1	Ards Shields	Solitude
Replay	Bangor Gregg	1-1	Ards Burke	Solitude
2nd Replay	Bangor Mulgrew	1-1	Ards McAteer	Solitude
3rd Replay	Bangor Heron Mulgrew McAllister	3-2	Ards Stewart McAteer	Solitude
1971/72 1st leg	Ards McCoy McCaughtry Patterson	3-0	Crusaders
2nd leg	Crusaders Finney McQuillan Beckett	3-0	Ards
Penalties	Crusaders	4-5	Ards
1993/94	Ards Browne Wilson Stranney 2	4-2	Crusaders	The Oval	1 600
2003/04	Ards	0-2	Linfield Hunter og Larmour	The Oval

Floodlit Cup

1993/94

Linfield
Doherty
Haylock
Campbell

3-0

Ards

The Oval

5 000

Blaxnit All-Ireland Cup

1973/74

Ards
Cathcart
McAteer
Cathcart

3-1

Ballymena
Todd

Mid-Ulster Cup

1998/99

Glenavon
McMenemy
Grant
Arthur

3-1

Ards
Ginty

Mourneview Pk

Carlsberg Cup

1972/73	Portadown Fleming Anderson 2	3-0	Ards	Windsor Park
1973/74	Crusaders McQuillan 2 Finney	3-0	Ards	Windsor Park

McElroy Challenge Cup

1940/41

Ards
Todd
McCreary
Crawford

3-1

Belfast Celtic II

Grosvenor Park

Clements Lyttle Challenge Cup

1941/42	Ards Black	1-0	Aircraft Utd	Grosvenor Park
1942/43	Ards Walsh 2 Carroll 3	5-1	Larne McIlroy	Grosvenor Park
1946/47	Linfield Swfts Beck Simpson Kelly	3-1	Ards Bunting	Grosvenor Park

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