Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Capitol Bowl		1st Leg
01.06.86	Dublin Celts	46	Belfast Blitzers	7
	Capitol Bowl		2nd Leg
22.06.86	Belfast Blitzers	24	Dublin Celts	20

Note: Dublin Celts won 66-31 on aggregate.

About

The Capitol Bowl was the first International Tournament involving Irish teams. At the time there was a separate Northern Ireland American Football Association, with the Dublin Celts the only kitted team in the Republic of Ireland, electing to play matches against both English and Northern Irish teams.

There was a united Irish American Football League the following season, 1987, after the Dublin Tornadoes joined the Celts south of the border.

While this was not an ideal situation at the time it was part of Irish American Football History.

Websites

[1] Britball Now (2016) Results Section [1986] [Internet] Available from: http://www.britballnow.co.uk/history-index/results-section.html [Accessed 23 March 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Cillian Smith, Michael Smith, and Michael Brophy of the Irish American Football Association and Irish American Football Officials Association.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 15 August 2019

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