The club, nicknamed the Blues, are managed by former Northern Ireland international and current all-time NI record goalscorer, David Healy. Healy was appointed on 14 October 2015 to succeed Warren Feeney, who had resigned in order to become assistant manager of Newport County.
Linfield holds several domestic records and two world records. The club was inaugural winners and one of the eight founding members of the Irish League in 1890, and is one of only three clubs (along with Glentoran and Cliftonville) to have remained in the top division continuously. Linfield has won 54 league championships to date - more than twice as many titles as any other Northern Irish club, and shares the world record for the most top division league titles won by any club with Rangers, who have won 54 Scottish titles. In 1922, Linfield completed a clean sweep of all seven available trophies in a season, and in 2006 repeated the feat by winning all four available domestic trophies, to achieve a domestic quadruple. They have also won three domestic trebles along with a world record 24 domestic doubles. The club has lifted the Irish Cup a record 43 times, the League Cup a record ten times, and has won 4 all-Ireland competitions - the 1960–61 North-South Cup, 1970–71 Blaxnit Cup, 1980–81 Tyler Cup and the 2005 Setanta Cup. The club has never won a European trophy, but did reach the quarter-finals of the 1966–67 European Cup.