Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
Northern Ireland's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0% |
| Without them | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| Anthony Costly | Honduras | 1 |
| Anton Pichler | Austria | 1 |
| Antonio Laing | Honduras | 1 |
| Armando Betancourt | Honduras | 1 |
| Bernd Krauss | Austria | 1 |
| Bruno Pezzey | Austria | 1 |
| Efraín Gutiérrez | Honduras | 1 |
| Erich Obermayer | Austria | 1 |
| Ernst Baumeister | Austria | 1 |
| Friedrich Koncilia | Austria | 1 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 15 Oct 1980 | v Sweden | 3–0 | 24′ | — | Winning goal | 1–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 1980 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 1 Jul 1982 | v Austria | 2–2 | came on 68′ | 22 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 1982 · Group stage |
| 21 Jun 1982 | v Honduras | 1–1 | came on 66′ | 24 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 1982 · Group stage |
| 15 Oct 1980 | v Sweden | 3–0 | — | — | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 1980 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.