Cup Final Appearances

Irish Cup

Season       Venue
1926/27 Ards
McGee 2
McIlreavey
3-2 Cliftonville
Mortished
Hughes
The Oval
Att. 20000
1951/52 Ards
Thompson
1-0 Glentoran Windsor Park
Att. 20000
1959/60 Linfield
Ferguson 2
Milburn 2
Gough
5-1 Ards
Welsh
The Oval
Att. 20000
1968/69 Ards 0-0 Distillery Windsor Park
Att. 17000
Replay Ards
McAvoy 4
4-2 Distillery
McCaffrey
Conlon
 
1973/74 Ards
Guy
McAvoy
2-1 Ballymena Utd
Sloan
Windsor Park
Att. 7000
1992/93 Bangor
Glendinning
1-1 Ards
McCourt
Windsor Park
Att. 8500
Replay Bangor
Glendinning
1-1 Ards
Erskine
Windsor Park
Att. 6000
2nd
Replay
Bangor
Byrne
1-0 Ards Windsor Park
Att. 5000

City Cup

1971/72 Ballymena
Averill
1-0 Ards The Oval

League Cup

1990/91 Glentoran
McCartney 2
2-0 Ards Windsor Park
Att. 4000
1994/95 Ards 0-0 Cliftonville Windsor Park
Att. 4500
Pens 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
Att. 6000
1967/68 Linfield
Wood
Shields 2
3-2 Ards
McAvoy
Mowat
The Oval
Att. 12000
1971/72 Portadown 0-0 Ards Mourneview Park
Replay Portadown
Fleming
Magowan
2-1 Ards
McAvoy
Mourneview Park
1973/74 Ards
Guy 2
McAteer
Cathcart
4-1 Bangor
Reid
The Oval
Att. 8000

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
Att. 5000
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
Att. 9000
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
Pens Crusaders 4-5 Ards   
1993/94 Ards
Browne
Wilson
Stranney 2
4-2 Crusaders The Oval
Att. 1600
2003/04 Ards 0-2 Linfield
Hunter og
Larmour
The Oval

Floodlit Cup

1993/94 Linfield
Doherty
Haylock
Campbell
3-0 Ards The Oval
Att. 5000

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 Park

Carlsberg Cup

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

Intermediate Cup

2007/08 Loughgall
Smith
1-0 Ards New
Grosvenor

Steel & Sons Cup

2008/09 Ards
Wilson
Billing
2-1 Carrick Ran
Nixon og
Seaview

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 Swifts
Beck
Simpson
Kelly
3-1 Ards
Bunting
Grosvenor Park
Appearance record

Played: 42
Won: 13
Drew: 10
Lost: 19

(replays are included in the totals, but the two-legged match with Crusaders is counted as one game)

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