Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 2 · Minute
Northern Ireland's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0% |
| Without them | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Aghvan Mkrtchyan | Armenia | 1 |
| Aki Riihilahti | Finland | 1 |
| Albert Sargsyan | Armenia | 1 |
| Anatoliy Tymoschuk | Ukraine | 1 |
| Andrei Husin | Ukraine | 1 |
| Andres Jose | Armenia | 1 |
| Andriy Voronin | Ukraine | 1 |
| Andrzej Bledzewski | Poland | 1 |
| Angelos Charisteas | Greece | 1 |
| Antonis Nikopolidis | Greece | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 13 Feb 2002 | v Poland | 1–4 | 18′ | — | Pulled one back | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 20 Apr 1994 | v Liechtenstein | 4–1 | 25′ | — | Winning goal | 2–0 | UEFA Euro qualification 1994 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 2 Apr 2003 | v Greece | 0–2 | started | 90 | — | Yellow | UEFA Euro qualification 2003 |
| 29 Mar 2003 | v Armenia | 0–1 | started | 90 | — | — | UEFA Euro qualification 2003 |
| 12 Feb 2003 | v Finland | 0–1 | started | 90 | — | — | Friendly |
| 16 Oct 2002 | v Ukraine | 0–0 | started | 90 | — | — | UEFA Euro qualification 2002 |
| 12 Oct 2002 | v Spain | 0–3 | started | 90 | — | — | UEFA Euro qualification 2002 |
| 27 Mar 2002 | v Liechtenstein | 0–0 | started | 48 | — | Red | Friendly |
| 13 Feb 2002 | v Poland | 1–4 | started | 90 | 1 | — | Friendly |
| 20 Apr 1994 | v Liechtenstein | 4–1 | — | — | 1 | — | UEFA Euro qualification 1994 |
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.