The 2025–26 NIFL Premier Intermediate League (known as the Playr-Fit Premier Intermediate League for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the NIFL Premier Intermediate League (the third tier of the Northern Ireland Football League - the national football league in Northern Ireland).
Teams
The league consisted of fourteen teams; eleven teams remaining from the previous season, one team promoted from Level 4, and two teams relegated from the NIFL Championship. The competition consists of a full double round robin of twenty-six matches.
The promoted team was the 2024–25 NIFL Premier Intermediate League play-off winners Strabane Athletic. They replaced the 2024–25 NIFL Premier Intermediate League bottom placed team Tobermore United.
The relegated teams were the 2024–25 NIFL Championship play-off losers Ballyclare Comrades and bottom-placed team Newry City. They replaced the 2024–25 NIFL Championship champions Warrenpoint Town and play-off winners Queen's University.
With the NIFL Championship expanding to sixteen teams from the following season, this was the first season where the top four teams of the NIFL Premier Intermediate League were promoted to the NIFL Championship.
ClubStadiumLocationCapacityBallyclare ComradesDixon ParkBallyclare2398 (538 seated)Ballymacash RangersThe Bluebell StadiumLisburn1,280Banbridge TownCrystal ParkBanbridge1,500Coagh UnitedHagan ParkCoagh1,000 (150 seated)DergviewDarragh ParkCastlederg1,280DollingstownPlanter's ParkDollingstown1,000KnockbredaBreda ParkBelfast1,000Lisburn DistilleryNew Grosvenor StadiumLisburn1,500 (790 seated)Moyola ParkFortwilliam ParkTobermore2,000 (100 seated)Newry CityThe ShowgroundsNewry2,275Oxford SunnysideKnockramer ParkLurgan1,600PortstewartMullaghacallPortstewart1,000Rathfriland RangersIveagh ParkRathfriland1,000Strabane AthleticMelvin Sports ArenaStrabane1,000
League table
Results Each team plays every other team twice (home and away).
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