Leinster Junior Football Championship

Leinster Junior Football Championship
Founded1905
Title holdersMeath (18th title)
Most titlesDublin (20 titles)

The Leinster Junior Football Championship was a junior "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games were organised by the Leinster Council. The competition ran from 1905 to 2019. The most successful county was Dublin who have won on twenty occasions.

The winners of the Leinster Junior Football Championship each year would then progress to play the other provincial champions for a chance to win the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship.

At GAA Congress in 2021, a motion was passed to change the entire structure of the All Ireland Junior Football Championship competition to that of a mostly 'overseas competition' along with just one Irish county, Kilkenny. The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship competition now involves just four teams: New York, Kilkenny, and the winner and runner-up of the British Junior Championship, all meeting in the All Ireland Junior Championship semi-finals. Hence there is no longer any Leinster Junior Football Championship competition.

Top winners

Team Wins Years won
1 Dublin 20 1908, 1914, 1916, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1971, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1994, 2008
2 Meath 18 1947, 1952, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2017, 2019
3 Louth 12 1910, 1912, 1925, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1946, 1957, 1961, 1966, 2009, 2010
Kildare 12 1927, 1931, 1938, 1956, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1989, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2018
4 Wexford 8 1911, 1963, 1984, 1992, 2000, 2007, 2015, 2016
5 Wicklow 6 1906, 1909, 1936, 1949, 1969, 2002
6 Laois 5 1907, 1941, 1968, 1973, 1993
7 Offaly 4 1935, 1972, 1998, 2001
Westmeath 4 1905, 1915, 1929, 1940
8 Carlow 3 1913, 1923, 1933
Longford 3 1924, 1937, 1953
9 Cavan 2 2012, 2014

Roll of honour

Year Winners Score Runners-up Score
2022- Kilkenny represent the province since 2022
2020-21 No Championship (Covid-19)
2019 Meath 2-14 Kildare 0-18
2018 Kildare 2-17 Meath 2-15
2017[1] Meath 0–19 Louth 0–10
2016[2] Wexford 2–12 Louth 0–09
2015[3] Wexford 1–10 Meath 0–12
2014[4] Cavan 1–11 Longford 1–07
2013[5] Kildare 2–15 Longford 3–08
2012[6] Cavan 1–13 Kildare 0–09
2011[7] Kildare 5–08 Cavan 1–09
2010 Louth 0–13 Cavan 2–06
2009 Louth 0–11, 1–12 (R) Longford 0–11, 0–10 (R)
2008 Dublin 1–13 Meath 1–09
2007 Wexford 1–10 Dublin 1–08
2006 Meath 1–12 Louth 0–11
2005 Meath 1–09 Louth 0–05
2004 Kildare 0–09 Dublin 0–08
2003 Meath 1–15 Wexford 0–07
2002 Wicklow 3–06 Kildare 0–09
2001 Offaly 2–09 Meath 1–11
2000 Wexford 1–09 Dublin 1–05
1999 Meath 1–9 Dublin 1–06
1998 Offaly 1–18 Kildare 0–08
1997 Meath 0–16 Louth 1–08
1996 Meath 1–13 Laois 2–07
1995 Meath 2–11 Offaly 1–05
1994 Dublin 0–09 Louth 0–05
1993 Laois 2–08 Carlow 0–11
1992 Wexford 1–16 Meath 2–10
1991 Meath 1–10, 1–14 (R) Dublin 1–10, 2–02 (R)
1990 Meath 0–15 Dublin 0–11
1989 Kildare 1–07 Louth 1–06
1988 Meath 0–10 Dublin 1–04
1987 Dublin 1–08 Meath 0–04
1986 Meath 1–10 Kildare 1–05
1985 Dublin 3–16 Louth 2–04
1984 Wexford 0–08 Louth 0–06
1983 Dublin 2–08 Meath 0–05
1974-82 No Championship
1973 Laois 1–09 Meath 0–09
1972 Offaly 3–08 Wexford 1–03
1971 Dublin 2–09 Kilkenny 0–05
1970 Kildare 3–13 Dublin 1–11
1969 Wicklow 2–05 Meath 0–05
1968 Laois 2–07, 0–09 (R) Westmeath 3–04, 0–04 (R)
1967 Kildare 2–08 Offaly 1–07
1966 Louth 3–14 Kildare 3–12
1965 Kildare 2–08 Laois 0–08
1964 Meath 3–10 Kildare 0–13
1963 Wexford 0–14 Westmeath 1–06
1962 Meath 2–11 Wexford 1–04
1961 Louth 2–04 Dublin 0–08
1960 Dublin 2–09 Meath 0–05
1959 Dublin 2–16 Longford 0–05
1958 Meath 1–05 Dublin 1–03
1957 Louth 2–06 Kilkenny 1–05
1956 Kildare 2–08 Wexford 2–03
1955 Dublin 1–12, 1–08 (R) Meath 4–03, 0–05 (R)
1954 Dublin 0–10, 2–11 (R) Louth 0–10, 2–04 (R)
1953 Longford 3–05 Kilkenny 1–05
1952 Meath 2–06 Wicklow 0–01
1951 Dublin 5–07 Carlow 0–07
1950 Dublin 1–15 Wexford 2–08
1949 Wicklow 5–02 Meath 2–10
1948 Dublin 2–09, 6–03 (R) Wexford 4–03, 2–04 (R)
1947 Meath 2–03 Dublin 1–04
1946 Louth 3–05 Wexford 0–01
1942-45 No Championship
1941 Laois 2–07 Louth 2–05
1940 Westmeath 5–07 Kildare 0–05
1939 Dublin 2–04, 2–12 (R) Meath 1–07, 0–07 (R)
1938 Kildare 1–03 Westmeath 0–05
1937 Longford 3–04 Offaly 4–01
1936 Wicklow 5–05 Kildare 0–03
1935 Offaly 1–06, 2–03 (R) Dublin 1–06, 0–02 (R)
1934 Louth 2–04, 1–07 (R) Kildare 1–07, 0–05 (R)
1933 Carlow 5–03 Wicklow 4–05
1932 Louth 2–07 Carlow 1–05
1931 Kildare 1–06 Dublin 1–04
1930 Dublin 3–03 Carlow 0–02
1929 Westmeath 1–02 Laois 0–02
1928 Louth 1–05 Dublin 1–04
1927 Kildare 3–03 Offaly 2–03
1926 Dublin 0–04 Kildare 0–03
1925 Louth 1–03 Dublin 0–04
1924 Longford* 0–02 Meath 1–03
1923 Carlow 2–05 Dublin 1–01
1922 Dublin 0–03, 2–02 (R) Wicklow 0–03, 0–03 (R)
1917-21 No Championship
1916 Dublin 2–07 Wexford 0–02
1915 Westmeath 3–00 Wexford 0–02
1914 Dublin 2–02 Kilkenny 0–03
1913 Carlow 3–04 Meath 0–00
1912 Louth 3–01 Carlow 2–02
1911 Wexford 3–01 Dublin 0–02
1910 Louth 1–05 Laois 1–01
1909 Wicklow 1–10 Westmeath 0–03
1908 Dublin 1–08 Meath 0–03
1907 Laois 2–11 Westmeath 0–05
1906 Wicklow 1–11 Westmeath 0–00
1905 Westmeath 1–04 Carlow 1–03

(* 1924 Longford awarded the title following an objection to Meath playing a Senior player. [8])

See also

References

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