At the 2015 IFCPF World Championships, they finished fourteenth in a fifteen deep field.
[2] Northern Ireland was ranked thirteenth in the world by the IFCPF in November 2014 and 2016.
The team was scheduled to participate in the 2016 IFCPF Qualification Tournament World Championships in Vejen, Denmark in early August.
The tournament was part of the qualifying process for the 2017 IFCPF World Championships.
Other teams scheduled to participate included Scotland, Canada, Portugal, Iran, Australia, Venezuela, Japan, Republic of South Korea, Germany, Denmark, and Spain.