Northern Ireland began the new decade 56th in FIFA's world rankings. The team continued to play their home matches at Linfield's Windsor Park stadium. Proposals to build a new stadium on the site of the former Maze Prison or in the Sydenham area of East Belfast were rejected by the Irish FA in favour of a major redevelopment of Windsor Park although no concrete plans were on the table.
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v Slovenia 3 Sept 2010
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Northern Ireland launched their new home strip in June 2010, immediately after the team's summer tour, which saw them lose all their games, in Albania, Connecticut (against Turkey) and Chile. The new strip had none of the trimmings seen in recent years, recreating the iconic outfit worn by George Best and his team mates in the Sixties, but with the addition of shadow stripes.